Origins - Festival of First Nations
This Is Our Country Too - (6 May – Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre – 7.30pm)
In June 2007, the Australian government under John Howard took the unprecedented step of suspending its Race
Relations Act to introduce the Intervention - a series of federal-backed laws designed to control the flow
of alcohol and pornography into 'prescribed communities' in the Northern Territory. This is Our Country Too
is black British film-maker Ishmahil Blagrove Jnr's
response to this intervention, and to the ongoing racial divisions and tensions he found in Australia.
Featuring interviews with prominent Aboriginal leaders, Pat Turner, niece of 'Australia's Mandela';
Charlie Perkins, Pat Dodson, spearhead of the reconciliation movement, actor/artist
David Gulpilil and Jenny Macklin, Minister of Indigenous Affairs.
See the video trailer
- 59 mins. UK / Australia 2008
- Dir: Ishmahil Blagrove Jnr
Venue 9: Amnesty Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA. £7 / £5 concessions. To book, contact Origins Box Office at Riverside Studios. 020 8237 1111.
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
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