Director gets nod for Indigenous doco (fwd link)

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Director gets nod for Indigenous doco

Posted 18 minutes ago
ABC News
Australia

A film that documents a male initiation ceremony in a remote Aboriginal
community has won a major Australian directorial accolade.

Tom Murray, director of In My Fathers Country, was last night awarded the prize
for best direction of a documentary feature at the Australian Directors Guild
Awards.

The Yolgnu language film was shot over 18 months in the Blue Mud Bay homelands
of Arnhem Land.

Murray spent a lot of time in the community before making the film and his
skeleton camera crew was able to capture the sacred ceremony with almost
unfettered access.

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