'We Don’t Need a Map is a feature length documentary about Australia’s complex relationship to the Southern Cross. It is the most famous constellation in the southern hemisphere and ever since colonisation it’s been claimed, appropriated and hotly-contested for ownership by a radical range of Australian groups. But for Aboriginal people the meaning of this heavenly body is deeply spiritual, and just about completely unknown. Warwick Thornton, one of Australia’s leading film-makers, tackles this fiery subject head on in a bold, provocative and poetic essay-film. Produced by Barefoot Films.' (Production summary)
'IN 2009 Alice Springs film maker Warwick Thornton was being hailed for his celebrated movie Samson and Delilah. It won the Camera d’Or at Cannes and he was nominated for Australian of the Year. Then, in early 2010, he said he feared the “Southern Cross is becoming the new Swastika”.'
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'IN 2009 Alice Springs film maker Warwick Thornton was being hailed for his celebrated movie Samson and Delilah. It won the Camera d’Or at Cannes and he was nominated for Australian of the Year. Then, in early 2010, he said he feared the “Southern Cross is becoming the new Swastika”.'
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