On August 11th 2016 I was invited to take part in the Breakfast Show on Broome Goolarri Radio to talk about my work with Nyikina women and my upcoming research presentation at Notre Dame University. You can listen to the podcast here:
On August 10th I did a radio interview on 6DBY in Derby, with Dr. Anne Poelina, to invite people to come to the presentation of my research to Nyikina people, at the Pandanus Park Community.
Three Sisters, Women of High Degree, was screened at the 15th Edition of the Festival du Rêve de l’Aborigène, in Paris, on 22nd July 2016, thanks to the good work of Thierry Gerard and his French Tent Embassy in support of the Aboriginal People of Australia!
French writer Delphine Hopital (L'Homme Qui Devint Chaman) screened the French version of Three Sisters (Trois Soeurs, Femmes de la Mardoowarra), at her book signing session in Lyon on May 21st, 2016. More info at:
http://www.grafficus.com/actualites/207-delphine-hopital-le-21-mai-2016-a-la-librairie-des-ecrivains
It has just been confirmed that our film, Three Sisters, Women of High Degree, will be screened at the Native Spirit Festival in London in October! Stay tuned for upcoming program details...
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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.