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Film Details - Film Australia , 1997
Producers:
Denise Haslem (Producer)
Trevor Graham (Producer)
Sharon Connolly (Associate Producer)
Production Companies:
Film Australia
Finance Organisations:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Editors:
Denise Haslem
Release Dates:
Premiered on 13 June 1997 at the Sydney Film Festival. First aired on ABC TV on 12 November 1997. Re-broadcast by ABC TV on 3 June 1998.
Awards:
- Sydney Film Festival (1997) Best Documentary (winner)
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards (1997) Best Documentary (winner)
- Brisbane Film Festival (1997) Most Popular Film (winner)
Notes:
Narrated by Trevor Graham. Narration written by Jonathon Holmes.
Further Reference: "Mabo - Life of an Island Man" Documentary Australia Foundation ; Suzanne Christie, "Film Review: Mabi - Life of an Island Man" Indigenous Law Bulletin 21 (1997), p. 4.
Subjects:
- Aboriginal land rights & native title
- Australian politics
- Justice
- Litigation & trials
- Aboriginal kinship
- Law courts
- Torres Strait Islander Australians
- Memories
- Families
- Aboriginal reserves & missions
- Aboriginal hunting, gathering & fishing
- Aboriginal relationship with the land
- Referenda
- Racism
- Judges
- Death of a loved one
- Cemeteries
- Aboriginal Australians & Torres Strait Islander Australians
Settings:
- Murray Island, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland,
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Townsville, Townsville area, Marlborough - Mackay - Townsville area, Queensland,
- Cairns, Cairns area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,
- Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland,
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
- ca. 1930-1995
