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form y separately published work icon From Sand to Celluloid series - publisher   film/TV  
Is part of Dreaming in Motion : Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers Australian Film Commission , 2007 reference non-fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 From Sand to Celluloid
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An initiative of the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission (AFC), From Sand to Celluloid comprises six films that have been packaged and distributed by Australian Film Institute Distribution (AFID) and Film Australia. The initial conception for the series came from the Indigenous Drama Initiative, set in 1994 with the express intention of advancing the development and production of films created by Indigenous Australians and increasing their participation in all areas of the film and television industry. The first project initiated was the development and production of six ten-minute dramas for television. Expressions of interest were called for from Indigenous Australians nationally. The ten applicants chosen (from forty seven) attended a visual storytelling workshop held in Melbourne in 1995. The Initiative utilised the assistance of all the state film assistance agencies and a pre-sale from SBS with an agreement to broadcast on SBS in July 1996, as well as the full participation of Film Australia through its funding of one of the productions. Five projects were further selected to go into production, along with Sally Riley's film Fly Peewee Fly (produced by Film Australia), and were delivered to the AFC on 30 March, 1996. Indigenous Australians were employed in both cast and crew positions.

In order to encourage a wider recognition and appreciation of the work of Indigenous Australians, the AFC supported the national distribution and exhibition of the films through the Australian Film Institute Distribution (AFID). AFID distributed the films as a package under the title of From Sand to Celluloid and the films screened at twenty-four locations, from as far afield as Cooper Pedy in South Australia to Broome in Western Australia, and were attended by a total of approximately 7,200 people.

As a unified collection, the films offer more than a two-dimensional victim-oppressor approach. They challenge viewers at all levels: as fellow citizens, as parents, as observers, and as fellow members of Indigenous communities. From Sand to Celluloid challenges viewers with many uncomfortable aspects of Australia's too-recent history. These include the active discrimination practised against Indigenous people in public places such as swimming pools and cinemas in country towns around Australia and the 'stolen generation': children taken away without their parents' consent and placed into homes or in white foster homes, with devastating effect on them and their families. The series is an essential resource for Indigenous studies, Australian history film studies, English legal studies, human relationship courses, and social studies.

[Source: Australian Film Commission, http://www.afc.gov.au/archive/annrep/ar95_96/indig.html]

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form y separately published work icon Round Up Rima Tamou , Sydney : Core Films , 1996 Z950424 1996 single work film/TV

Hugo is the stockman son of the white boss at Taipan Creek station. Desi is an Aboriginal stockman. Their bitter fist fight lands them in hospital in the big city. In this unfamiliar environment, they learn they are not as different as they first thought.

Sydney : Core Films , 1996
form y separately published work icon Black Man Down Sam Watson , Australia : 1996 Z537148 1996 single work film/TV A journey into the very core of the Aboriginal psyche, Black Man Down takes us into the realm of a troubled young warrior who has been beaten at a protest rally, and subsequently locked up by the police. Sitting alone in the cell he is watched by a dreamtime spirit when death comes calling. Australia : 1996
form y separately published work icon Two Bob Mermaid Darlene Johnson , Sydney : Core Films , 1996 Z1475866 1996 single work film/TV

Koorine is a young fair-skinned Koori girl growing up in a country town in 1957. At that time, Aboriginal people were not welcome in public swimming pools and had to sit separately at the movies. Koorine desperately wants to enter the 'million dollar mermaid' swimming contest. She has a choice because she 'looks white.' Then a fight breaks out at the swimming pool between her Koori friends and her white friends. She has to decide what is more important to her, her white friends or her Koori identity.

Sydney : Core Films , 1996
form y separately published work icon No Way To Forget Richard Frankland , Torquay : Golden Seahorse Productions , 1996 Z1509387 1996 single work film/TV

Based on Richard Frankland's experiences as a field officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, No Way to Forget follows one of his many car journeys between cities for the hearings. It also marks his own spiritual and emotional journey, in which he attempts to deal with the pain of the knowledge he bears.

Torquay : Golden Seahorse Productions , 1996
form y separately published work icon Fly Peewee, Fly Sally Riley , 1996 Z1574060 1996 single work film/TV

Six-year-old Robbie takes up residence in his favourite tree, to be with his friend the PeeWee bird, forcing his family to see the world from his point of view.

1996
form y separately published work icon Payback Warwick Thornton , Sydney : Blackfella Films , 1996 Z1574075 1996 single work film/TV Sydney : Blackfella Films , 1996

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First known date: 1996

Works about this Work

Beyond Good/Should/Bad : Teaching Australian Indigenous Film and Television Therese Davis , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 24 no. 5 2010; (p. 799 - 804)
More Films Feature in 'Shifting Sands' 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 April no. 173 1998; (p. 21)

— Review of From Sand to Celluloid 1996 series - publisher film/TV
More Films Feature in 'Shifting Sands' 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 April no. 173 1998; (p. 21)

— Review of From Sand to Celluloid 1996 series - publisher film/TV
Beyond Good/Should/Bad : Teaching Australian Indigenous Film and Television Therese Davis , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 24 no. 5 2010; (p. 799 - 804)
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