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Our documentary, Three Sisters, Women of High Degree, was screened on NITV on October 6th and 7th, and is now available on SBS On Demand. [ Web Page ]
In April 2015, together with 15 French researchers working with Aboriginal Communities in Australia, I was a signatory of the letter published in the French and Australian Huffington Post against the proposal of Closure of Remote Aboriginal Communities in Western Australia.
Access the French Article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/martin-preaud/non-aux-fermetures-de-communautes-aborigenes-en-australie_b_7151048.html
Access the Australian Article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-preaud/australian-aboriginal-communities-should-not-be-closed_b_7161392.html?ir=Australia
From April 22nd to 25th 2015 I was privileged to be engaged as a research assistant and filmmaker in the Tweed Heads Yarn Up for the Serving Our Country Project (ANU). My role was to help organise and film interviews with Tweed Aboriginal Community Members who wanted to tell their own stories, or those of their family members who had served in the Australian Armed Forces. You can watch all the interviews here:
http://ourmobserved.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/258/tweed-heads-yarn
Taking Seriously Aboriginal Knowledge as Philosophy - by Dom Amerena
"The festival also marked the premiere of a film called Three Sisters, Women of High Degree, which told the stories of Nyikina women from the Fitzroy River, one of whom was Dr Anne Poelina, a countrywoman of Paddy Roe, who travelled from Broome to attend the festival"
Full text of the article available online [ Web Page ]
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An article in the French Newspaper Sud-Ouest about the Rochefort Pacifique International Film Festival where Trois Soeurs (the French version of Three Sisters, Women of High Degree), premiered in May 2014.
Canberra Manning Clarke House screening of our film, Mardoowarra Living Water. Read the whole article at:
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Article published during our visit to France in 2012, before our presentation: Industrialisation, Ecology and Tradition, at the Vienne Institute of Technology.
Dr Anne Poelina, Ian Perdrisat and myself continued our journey through France with an evening session at the FRAC Lorraine Contemporary Art Gallery in Metz to share our film, Songlines and Pipelines, followed by a discussion about the industrialisation of the Kimberley region, and their campaign to protect Country.
Year: 2009
Date: November 8 - November 14
Publisher: Murwillumbah Weekly
Country: Australia
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Year: 2008
Publisher: Murwillumbah Weekly
Description: promotion of the launch
of the Tweed River Projects DVD
produced for Tweed Shire Council
and the River Committee.
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Year: 2005
Description: A Certificate of Appreciation from the Tweed River Agricultural Society to Pandion Pictures for sponsoring the Murwillumbah Show by producing local television commercials and a short film to advertise the event.
Year: 2007
Publisher: The Daily News
Description: "Why I Moved Here": Magali McDuffie, Stokers Siding
2007
Tweed Sun
Whilst making my first documentary, Bypassed: The Erosion of our Cultural and Environmental Landscapes, I worked with the Tweed Aboriginal Community and several environment groups in Bundjalung Country, Northern New South Wales. I also became the President of the Tugun Cobaki Alliance, fighting against a proposed Bypass which was going to destroy an important cultural and environmental space, the Murraba landscape. This is an article from the Daily Mail, published during that time, circa 2006. Excerpt:
“[Magali McDuffie] said that barely four months off the deadline for completion of the primary conditions for approval of the bypass, the compensatory habitat package had yet to be finalised. ‘Furthermore, another condition of approval was that the area surrounding and directly above the tunnel - protected wetlands - should be revegetated to its original state. The Abi Group was penalised last year for polluting protected wetlands and ordered to pay $30,000 in costs for the offence of polluting waters in the Brunswick River during the construction of the Yelgun to Chinderah freeway. So why shouldn’t citizens be worried about what is happening to the Tweed River and Cobaki Lakes?’.”
2004
Tweed Sun
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Interview with Brian & Magali McDuffie on the production of the Speed on Tweed 2003 Documentary.
2003
Tweed Times
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Screening of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002, at the Regent Cinema in Murwillumbah.
2003
The Daily News
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Premiere of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002, at the Regent Cinema in Murwillumbah.
2002
Murwillumbah Weekly
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An article about the Premiere of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002, at the Regent Cinema in February 2003.
2002
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A newspaper article promoting the release of the documentary Speed On Tweed 2002
2002
Murwillumbah Regent Cinema Program
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Premiere of the documentary, Speed On Tweed 2002 (February 2003).
2004
Video Of The Month
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A review of the documentary Speed on Tweed 2003 published by the Australian Classic Car Magazine in July 2004.