Island Home Country

Name: Island Home Country
Director: Jeni Thornley
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2008-08-02T
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 5.0
Cast: Jeni Thornley, Rinki Bhattacharya, Dur-e Dara, Jim Everett, Phyllis Pitchford

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A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Actor: Jeni Thornley, Rinki Bhattacharya, Dur-e Dara, Jim Everett, Phyllis Pitchford, Arundhati Roy, Julie Janson, Julie Gough, Clive Atkinson, Jan Thornley

Director: Jeni Thornley

Years: 2008

Country: Australia

Quality: HD

Production: Anandi Films, University of Technology Sydney

Island Home Country

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