form y separately published work icon Songlines on Screen series - publisher   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Songlines on Screen
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'Due to the success of the first Songlines on Screen Initiative held in 2014, both Screen Australia and NITV are pleased to announce a second Songlines on Screen initiative opportunity.'

'This initiative aims to give place to some of the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander songlines that are integral to the makeup of Indigenous Australia, incorporating the full spectrum of storytelling including dance, song, art, body painting, and sites of significance.' (Source: Screen Australia website)

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form y separately published work icon Footprints Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2016 9613238 2016 single work film/TV

'It is 2014 and a group of young Aboriginal men from a tribe on the verge of losing their Songlines have just discovered that a law boss from a neighbouring tribe knows some of their cultural songs and dances. They have not been performed for more than 50 years and it was thought they had been lost forever. The songs and dances were given to the men’s tribe, the Djugun tribe, by their creator during the Buguragarri (the Dreaming).' (Screen Australia website)

 Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2016
form y separately published work icon Naji Australia : Ramu Productions , 2016 9613331 2016 single work film/TV

'Naji is a story from the Bugarregarre time, the Dreamtime. The spirit beings came out of the ocean and woke up the silent, barren land, as they moved from Dabberdabbergun in the West, to the land of the rising sun, creating life and importantly, water, as they travel. This creation story comes to life through the use of re-enactments as Richard Hunter, an elder of the Goolarabooloo people, recounts the steps of his First People. Or during the Buguragarri (the Dreaming).' (Source : Screen Australia website)

 Australia : Ramu Productions , 2016
form y separately published work icon Goorrandalng : Brolga Dreaming Australia : Bigapitja , 2016 9613371 2016 single work film/TV

'Goorrandalng is a song and a story. The Goorrandalng song is about brolgas. It's from Granny Sheba Dignari's mother and is sung all the time for country, keeping it strong. Goorrandalng is also the name of the dreaming place, at Keep River National Park in the Northern Territory, where women can go to become pregnant. In the Goorrandalng dreamtime story, women went to the special place and turned into brolgas.' (Source: Screen Australia website)

 Australia : Bigapitja , 2016
form y separately published work icon Tjawa Tjawa Australia : 2016 9613397 2016 single work film/TV

'Tjawa Tjawa Songline follows a group of women in search of husbands, travelling from Roebourne all the way to Kiwikurra in the Great Sandy Desert to the south of Balgo. A long journey with many stories along the way about how the women came to their end, only to come alive again and continue to travel the lands.' (Source : Screen Australia website)

 Australia : 2016
form y separately published work icon Bulunu Milkarri Australia : 2016 9613499 2016 single work film/TV

'One woman’s journey to learn an endangered Songline from remote Arnhem Land that explores cycles of death, life, rain, tears and the replenishment and abundance of land, sea and spirit, and the quest to ensure this ancient Songline is practiced for generations to come.'

Source: NITV (http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/songlines-on-screen/article/2016/04/29/landmark-documentary-series-songlines-screen-coming-soon). (Sighted: 06/06/2016)

 Australia : 2016
form y separately published work icon Wardbukkarra Australia : Manmoyi Music, Skinnyfish Music , 2016 9613558 2016 single work film/TV

'The story of the creation of the First People of Western Arnhem Land and the battle between good and evil, resulting in the songs and stories handed down today.' (Source : Screen Australia website)

 Australia : Manmoyi Music, Skinnyfish Music , 2016
form y separately published work icon Wurray Australia : Sutton Grange Films, Milingimbi Art and Culture Aboriginal Corporation , 2016 9613586 2016 single work film/TV

'Yolngu song men trace the epic dreamtime story of their great nomadic warrior, Wurray, across the wilderness of North East Arnhem Land.' (Source : Screen Australia website)

 Australia : Sutton Grange Films, Milingimbi Art and Culture Aboriginal Corporation , 2016
form y separately published work icon Damari and Guyala : A Story of Two Brothers Australia : Turn Dog Quick Films , 2016 9613655 2016 single work film/TV

'Before the whiteman arrived, two brothers Damari and Guyala, made their way down the east coast of Australia. They came seeking shelter and food after a long journey from the North and made a stopover near the land of the Mandingalbay Yidinji tribe of the Cairns area. The story of betrayal, lies and loyalty is told in the language of the Mandingalbay Yidinji elder David Mundraby.' (Source : Screen Australia website)

 Australia : Turn Dog Quick Films , 2016
form y separately published work icon Ngapa Jukurrpa : Water Dreaming Australia : PAW Media and Communications , 2016 9620437 2016 single work film/TV Indigenous story

'The Ngapa Jukurrpa is a series of rain creation songs that travel across Central Australia. The Ngapa spirit gathers as cloud and is a warrior, building strength. It moves west across the Ngalikirlangu landforms and into the Tanami Desert. It passes over the water dreaming site of Juka Juka where Warlpiri rain makers perform using pearl shells from Broome. After a long journey, the story keeps heading north to Arnhem Land.' (Source: Screen Australia website)

 Australia : PAW Media and Communications , 2016
form y separately published work icon Desert Dingo Artnwer - Desert Dingo Australia : CAAMA Productions , 2016 9620535 2016 single work film/TV 'Five senior Alywarre lawmen journey from their community of Ali Curung (Land of the Dogs) across 450kms of semi-arid plane and range country to perform Ceremonies at three significant sites where the narrative of an important Dingo songline plays out.' (Source: https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/getmedia/13dc336e-8a74-4459-a618-224ae3577e69/Songlines.pdf?ext=.pdf) Australia : CAAMA Productions , 2016
form y separately published work icon The Greedy Emu Jill Nganjmirra , Terrah Guymala , Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2017 17032252 2017 single work film/TV

'Sharing is a crucial aspect of western Arnhemland culture and when people forget to share there are always consequences.' (Production summary)

 Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2017
form y separately published work icon Marrimarrigun Dot West , Dianne Appleby , Jimmy Edgar , Melanie Edgar , Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2017 17032505 2017 single work film/TV

'Marrimarrigun is the story of two young men hunting in Marrar country, and who get ripped from the land by the notoriously ferocious and fast tides.

'Stranded on an island, the boys are saved and protected by Marrimarri, the giant spirit man and his daughters.

'As their family mourns them, the boys are put through Law by Marrimarri and marry his daughters before being taken on a spiritual journey back to the mainland.

'The spirits of the two boys can be seen in the Laja and Man-gala time, walking along the beach spearing.' (Production summary)



  Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2017
form y separately published work icon Yarripiri's Journey Harry Nelson Jakamarra , Robin Granites , Connie Nakamarra White-Fisher , George Jungarrayi Ryder , Jack Jangala Cook , Thomas Jangala Rice , Maisie Napurrurla Wayne Dickson , Peggy Nampijinpa Brown , Lynette Nampijinpa Granites , Katrina Nampijinpa Brown , Lorraine Nungarrayi Granites , Nellie Nangala Wayne , Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2017 17033751 2017 single work film/TV

'Yarripiri the giant ancestral taipan created the Jardiwanpa Songline through his journey, bringing songs, law and the Jardiwanpa fire ceremony to Warlpiri people.' (Production summary)

 Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2017
form y separately published work icon Niminjarra Minyawu Miller , Waka Taylor , Muuki Taylor , Desmond Taylor (translator), Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2018 17032942 2018 single work film/TV

''Niminjarra' is a story owned by Warnman people of the Great Sandy Desert in WA. Two young men decided not to go to a higher Law ceremony and turned themselves into snakes.' (Production summary)

 Australia : Wawili Pitjas , 2018

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Works about this Work

Secret Life of Country Debra Jopson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 June 2016; (p. 10)
— Review of Songlines on Screen 2016 series - publisher film/TV
Saving the Songlines Vanessa Williams , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 6 June 2016; (p. 5)
Secret Life of Country Debra Jopson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 June 2016; (p. 10)
— Review of Songlines on Screen 2016 series - publisher film/TV
Saving the Songlines Vanessa Williams , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 6 June 2016; (p. 5)
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