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'The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, 2012) opens in an idyllic rural setting. A group of young Aboriginal girls run home across the paddocks in the fading evening light to sing for a gathering of family and friends. But this benign atmosphere rapidly switches to terror as white Australian Government officials arrive on the scene and forcibly remove one of the girls from the Cummeraganja Mission community. It is the late 1960s, and State and Federal Government "child protection" policies allow the removal of so-called "half-caste" Aboriginal children from their families, leaving a devastating and traumatic legacy that the film goes on to address.' (Author's introduction)
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Seriously Funny : History and Humour in The Sapphires and Other Indigenous Comedies
Senses of Cinema
Subjects:
- The Sapphires 2012 single work film/TV
- Radiance 1998 single work film/TV
- One Night the Moon 2001 single work film/TV
- Beneath Clouds 2001 single work film/TV
- Samson and Delilah 2009 single work film/TV
- Stone Bros 2009 single work film/TV
- Toomelah 2011 single work film/TV
- Here I Am 2010 single work film/TV
- Australian Rules 2002 single work film/TV
- The Tracker 2002 single work film/TV
- Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 single work film/TV
- Yolngu Boy 2000 single work film/TV
- Ten Canoes 2006 single work film/TV
- Mad Bastards 2010 single work film/TV
- Australia 2008 single work film/TV
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