Gender:
Male
Heritage:
Aboriginal
;
Aboriginal Yorta Yorta / Yota Yota
;
Aboriginal Wurundjeri / Woiwurung
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2013 winner National NAIDOC Awards — Artist of the Year
- 2013 recipient Bob Maza Fellowship
- 2012 co-winner Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Jimmy Little Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music Co-winner with the Original Sapphires - Beverly Briggs, Naomi Mayers, Lois Peeler and Laurel Robinson.
Awards for Works
-
form
y
The Sapphires
( dir. Wayne Blair
)
Australia
:
Goalpost Pictures
,
2012
Z1809626
2012
single work
film/TV
(taught in 1 units)
'Gail, Cynthia, Julie and Kay are sexy, black, young and talented - and they've never set foot outside Australia. Until, in the chaos of 1968, they're plucked from the obscurity of a remote Aboriginal mission, branded as Australia's answer to The Supremes, and - grasping the chance of a lifetime - dropped into the jungles of Vietnam to entertain the troops.' Source: www.encoremagazine.com.au/ (Sighted 26/09/2011).
- 2013 winner Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Film of the Year
- 2013 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
- 2013 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
- 2012 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Adapted Screenplay
- 2012 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Film
- 2012 winner AWGIE Awards — Major Award
- 2012 shortlisted The Age Critics' Award for Best Australian Feature
- 2012 winner AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Adaptation
-
form
y
My Place
( dir. Shawn Seet
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
Little Leaf Pictures
Matchbox Pictures
ABC Television
,
2009-2011
Z1649817
2009-2011
series - publisher
film/TV
children's
historical fiction
My Place, based on the award-winning book My Place by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins, is a thirteen-part drama series that tells the story of one house in South Sydney through the experiences of the children who live there over a 130-year period. My Place aims to show that everyone is part of history and that every place has a story.
- 2012 winner Logie Awards — Most Outstanding Children's Program
- 2011 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Children's Television Series For Series Two.
- 2010 winner Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Children's Television Drama For Series One.
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