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Film Details
- Gripping Films & Graphics; Western Australia Aboriginal Media Association,yca.1997
Producers:
Patricia Evans (producer).
Graeme Edwin (associate producer) (WAAMA).
Production Companies:
Gripping Films & Graphics.
Western Australian Aboriginal Media Association (WAAMA).
Finance Organisations:
Produced with the assistance of Screen West, The Australian Film Commission, The Lotteries Commission and SBS Independent.
Music:
David Milroy.
Cast:
Stephen (Baamba) Albert (narrator).
Release Dates:
Production commenced in May 1996.
Episode one screened on SBS Television 29 June 1998 at 5.50pm.
Also screened in Norway, on NRK Television.
Location:
Western Australia
Awards:
The pilot episode, 'Waitj and the Djindong', was screened at the 9th Western Australia Film and Video Festival in 1995, and won the Best Animation award.
Notes:
Animators: Alan Thompson and Derek Local (Nannup).
