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What’s On
Sydney
Screening and talk – The Making of “Ablaze”
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Tuesday June 4
5:30pm for 6:00pm start
Amnesty International Australia
Level 1 79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale
Bringing Aboriginal Past to the Present and its importance for Reconciliation
Further information: redfern.amnesty@gmail.com
Talk and screening of never-before-seen scenes of the upcoming documentary Ablaze.
Ablaze is a feature documentary in the process of being made that tells the astonishing true story of the first Aboriginal filmmaker William Bill Onus. In it, his grandson and co-director, opera singer Tiriki Onus seeks to solve the mystery surrounding a 70-year-old silent film recently discovered inside a vault, believed to be made by Bill, which recorded the birth of the Aboriginal civil rights movement in 1946. Ablaze also traces the yet untold story of how a handful of passionate activists stood up against government racial policies intent on destroying First Nations languages, cultures and communities, and how they changed the course of history.
Speakers:
- Alec Morgan: co-director of Ablaze, will talk about the making of the documentary and screen never-before-seen scenes.
- Phil Duncan: a Gomeroi/Wiradjuri man and Aboriginal Cultural Training Coordinator at Macquarie University, will talk on the importance of understanding the past and how that knowledge can inspire today’s activism for human rights and social justice.
- Joel Clark: Indigenous Rights Advocate.
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