Anthrovision, Vaneasa Online Journal (European Journal of Visual Anthropology) has published my article in their 2016 Yearly Edition: Visual Creativity and Narrative Research in and on Oceania. This article (Jimbin Kaboo Yimardoowarra Marninil: Listening to Nyikina Women's Voices - Film as a Strategy of Resistance) talks about the use of collaborative film as a methodology in my PhD research, but also more broadly as an act of resistance to neo-colonial oppression, and an empowerment tool for marginalised voices. You can read it at: https://anthrovision.revues.org/2220
I am very honoured to announce that I am the recipient of the 2016 ANU Watervale Award! Every year, this Award recognises the importance of the work of a PhD Scholar at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies. $10,000 is awarded to the recipient to assist in the timely completion of their PhD research. I am very grateful to Ian and Laurel Fisher, the generous sponsors of this Award, for creating this opportunity for students who would otherwise not be able to access a scholarship (mature-age students, single parents, part-time students, etc.). Thank you!
NCIS Newsletter November 2016
In September and October 2016 we had the amazing opportunity to travel to South Australia to go and interview people on country about their views on the proposed nuclear waste dumps on their country. Our film, 'Protecting Country', featuring interviews with many Aboriginal people and Elders, and the beautiful Flinders Ranges country, will be completed in March/April 2017. In the meantime, you can tune in to our blog: http://www.magalimcduffie.com/travels/ and excerpts of some of the interviews: http://www.magalimcduffie.com/films/
Three Sisters, Women of High Degree, was screened at the 10th Native Spirits Festival in London on October 10th, 2016. The film was introduced by our friend Nicolas Beriot, Secretary-General of the Observatory of the Effects of Climate Change, Ministry of Ecology, France.
For more information, see programme here: http://www.nativespiritfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/0005-NATIVE-SPIRIT-FESTIVAL-7_16-Oct.pdf
Source: http://pijushju.blogspot.com.au/
And it looks like I am off to India in November... I am privileged to have been selected to attend an international workshop on Environmental Humanities: Ecology, Culture, and Intervention, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata! More information on this amazing course here:
You can read about my travels in India on my blog: http://www.magalimcduffie.com/travels/
On August 11th 2016 I had the opportunity to do a presentation of my research as part of the Talking Heads Seminar Series, Nulungu Research Institute, Notre Dame University, Broome: 'Development and Nyikina Women's Agency: The Importance of 'Booroo' in an International, Inter-cultural Space'.
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.
Pandanus Park Community Presentation
Talking on 6DBY Derby with Dr. Anne Poelina
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: