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Dot West Dot West i(A107516 works by) (a.k.a. Dorothy West)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 form y separately published work icon Desert Camp Dot West , Victoria : Ned Lander Media Australian Children's Television Foundation , 2020 20269767 2020 single work film/TV children's
1 form y separately published work icon Marrimarrigun Dot West , Dianne Appleby , Jimmy Edgar , Melanie Edgar , ( dir. Kimberley West ) 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)



 
1 Untitled i "We sat in the river bed,", Dot West , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: All Ginibi's Mob : Our Voices Collected 2011; (p. 108-109)
1 5 form y separately published work icon The Circuit : Series 2 Kelly Lefever , Dot West , Mitch Torres , Wayne Blair , Australia : Media World Pictures , 2009 Z1622302 2009 single work film/TV Aboriginal lawyer Drew Ellis continues his journey through the chaotic, challenging world of the Kimberley Court, a circuit that takes a magistrate and an entourage of court officers and lawyers on a regular five-day, 2000-kilometre round trip to dispense justice to the dusty, remote communities of northern Western Australia. (Screen Australia record)
2 6 form y separately published work icon The Circuit Beck Cole , Kelly Lefever , Mitch Torres , Dot West , ( dir. Richard Frankland et. al. )agent Australia : Media World Pictures , 2007 Z1405020 2007 single work film/TV

'The Circuit is set in the Kimberley region of North Western Australia. It is a place of two seasons; the wet and the dusty dry. Known for its beauty, vastness and hardship, this region is a land rich in history for its traditional owners, but now sits within the confines of white ownership and white law. This is the home of The Circuit, the Magistrate's Court, which visits far-flung communities several days a month, bringing conveyor-belt justice dealt swiftly and fairly. Working between two worlds and juggling white law with traditional lore, means that justice can be a slippery beast.'

Source: SBS website, http://www.sbs.com.au/
Sighted: 09/07/2007
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