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'Boori Pryor is an Aboriginal man from Townsville where his family lived and some still do. After careers in the air force, sport, acting and being a DJ he became a storyteller working in schools and communities with his unique blend of word, music, dance and visual arts. He has performed over the last thirty years for in excess of one and a quarter million children and he and they have taken away the spirit of reconciliation and brotherhood from his brilliant and engaging workshops.'

'His story, as we shall see, is varied and has its share of tragedy but none of this is apparent in his work.\nHe has been inducted as the inaugural Children's Laureate and works under this heading as well as his own. He is indefatigable in his quest for a new understanding and a new conversation in this land. We will meet many people during the time of the film who have been touched by his work and for whom a change was necessary to move forward. Some of these will be well known some not at all. One, a school teacher first met him as a primary school student who has subsequently invited Boori to work with his students.'

'Boori is also an award winning writer with six children's books published many of which are used in schools and which have won prizes. One will soon be made into a film. This film will be part road film as Boori drives across the nation, part observational study as he works with kids of different types and in different places, part interview of people central to his life and development and part reconstruction with actors playing a couple of key figures at important moments of his life.'

Source: Documentary Australia Foundation website