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Dena Curtis
Dena Curtis is an Australian film producer and director. She is known for writing and directing several short films, and directed the first series of ABC Television comedy series ''8MMM Aboriginal Radio'' in 2015. She co-developed and co- produced the 2018 children's TV series ''Grace Beside Me'', and co-produced the documentary series ''First Weapons'' (2023) and ''Firebite'' (2024). She is the owner of production company Inkey Media in Brisbane, Queensland. Early life and education Dena Curtis is from Central Australia, and is of the Warrumungu, Warlpiri and Arrernte peoples. After completing school, Curtis worked as a media officer at the local language centre in Tennant Creek, a small town in the Northern Territory. She was offered a traineeship, which led her to working with a film crew from Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) who were filming in the town. Some months later CAAMA encouraged her to apply for a role as production assistant. She was hire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandover River
The Sandover River is an ephemeral river in the Northern Territory of Australia located in northeast Central Australia. It is the only major tributary of the Georgina River that does not rise in western Queensland. Instead it flows from the eastern Macdonnell Ranges, northward to enter the Georgina near Urandangi. The highest point in the catchment is Bald Hill at , but it enters the Georgina at altitudes below . Course and features The ephemeral Sandover River is usually dry except when the northern monsoon moves unusually far south into the continent. The average annual rainfall in the catchment area is typically around but varies greatly: in dry years like 1928 the total may be as low as , but in very wet years like 1974, 2000, 2001 and 2010, it can be as high as . Most of this rain falls in the summer: between December and March monthly totals have on several occasions exceeded the mean annual rainfall. Flows in the Sandover often fail to reach the Georgina, instead dry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that the author has created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of a given work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work. There are several types of Creative Commons licenses. Each license differs by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution. They were initially released on December 16, 2002, by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001. There have also been five versions of the suite of licenses, numbered 1.0 through 4.0. Released in November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NITV
National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the six-day-a-week ''NITV News Update'', with programming including other news and current affairs programmes, sports coverage, entertainment for children and adults, films and documentaries covering a range of topics. Its primary audience is Indigenous Australians, but many non-Indigenous people tune in to learn more about the history of and issues affecting the country's First Nations peoples. NITV was initially only carried by cable and satellite providers, along with some limited over-the-air transmissions in certain remote areas. NITV was re-launched in December 2012 by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) as a free-to-air channel. History Predecessors of NITV Indigenous groups and individuals lobbied the Australian Government to fund a nationwide Indigenous telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warumungu Language
The Warumungu (or ''Warramunga'') language is spoken by the Warumungu people in Australia's Northern Territory. In addition to spoken language, the Warumungu have a highly developed Warumungu Sign Language, sign language. History In the 1870s, early white Exploration, explorers described the Warumungu as a flourishing nation.The Warumungu: ''The Land is Always Alive'' Retrieved 23 December 2008 However, by 1915, invasion and reprisal had brought them to the brink of starvation.Blackwell-Reference Online: Warumungu (Australian: Pam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackfella Films
Blackfella Films is an Australian documentary and narrative film production company headquartered in Sydney, founded in 1992 by Rachel Perkins. The company produces Australian short and feature-length content for film and television with a particular focus on Indigenous Australian stories. Its productions have included the documentary series ''First Australians'' and '' The Australian Wars'', the documentary film '' The Tall Man'', the television film '' Mabo'', and the drama series ''Redfern Now'' and '' Total Control''. , producer Darren Dale, who joined the company in 2001, is managing director of Blackfella Films. History Blackfella Films was founded in 1992 by Arrernte writer, producer, and director Rachel Perkins. Producer Darren Dale joined the company in 2001, while former head of drama at the ABC, Miranda Dear, joined in 2010 with a focus on producing the company's dramatic content. From 2002 to 2011 Blackfella Films curated the Message Sticks Indigenous Film F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Dale
Darren Dale is an Indigenous Australian film and television producer. He joined film production company Blackfella Films as a producer and later co-director (with founder Rachel Perkins), and is managing director. Dale is known for co-producing many films and television series with Miranda Dear since 2010, with their most recent collaboration being the second season of '' Total Control''. Early life and education Darren Dale is a Bundjalung man from northern New South Wales. Career Dale joined Blackfella Films in 2001, and became co-director with company founder Rachel Perkins. The first stand-out success of this collaboration came with the production of ''First Australians'', a 7-part documentary broadcast on SBS Television in 2008, that won many awards and remains the highest-selling educational title in Australia. It was also sold overseas.> Dale has co-produced many films and television series with Miranda Dear, who joined Blackfella in 2010. In 2011 he produced '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders University
Flinders University, established as The Flinders University of South Australia is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across a number of locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. The main campus is in Bedford Park, South Australia, Bedford Park, about south of the Adelaide city centre. Other campuses include Tonsley, South Australia, Tonsley, Adelaide central business district, Renmark, South Australia, Renmark, Alice Springs, and Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the Australian and South Australian coastline in the early 19th century. In 2022, there were 25,247 students enrolled at the university. History Origins and construction By the late 1950s, the University of Adelaide's North Terrace campus was approaching capacity. In 1960, Premier Thomas Playford IV, Thomas Playford announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Film's Sake
For Film's Sake (FFS), formerly World of Women’s Cinema (WOW) Film Festival and known as the WOW Film Festival, is a film festival showcasing films made by women that ran in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It has been on hiatus since the 23rd edition in 2019. History The WOW Film Festival was organised by Women in Film and Television (WIFT) NSW, from around 1996. Georgia Wallace-Crabbe was director of the festival in the 1990s. Initially restricted to short film, the festival's aims were to promote and recognise through awards "the talents of women directors, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers in the Australian film industry and internationally". In 2013, Tamara Popper was director of the 19th edition of the festival, and it took place to coincide with International Women's Day, in locations including Dendy Cinemas and AFTRS. The festival's patron in 2014 was Rachel Griffiths. In 2016, the 21st edition of the festival was advertised as "screening in Sydn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne International Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1952 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world following the founding of the Venice Film Festival in 1932, Cannes Film Festival in 1939 and Berlin Film Festival in 1951. Currently held in the month of August from 8th to 25th in 2024 and spanning events in the Melbourne CBD as well as inner-suburban and regional Victoria, MIFF screens films from both Australia and across the world to an audience of approximately 150,000. It is the largest film festival in both Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, and is the world’s largest showcase of new Australian cinema. The 2022 festival contributed Australian dollar, A$9.7 million to the City of Melbourne’s economy. Alongside its expansive and well-received film program, MIFF realizes its vision, “An enlightened, inclusive, engaged society through film”, via its renowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival
Message Sticks Festival, also known for some time as Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival, was an arts festival celebrating the culture of Aboriginal Australians, based at the Sydney Opera House, between 1999 and 2013. It focused on film for several years, but music, theatre and dance were also showcased. The festival was succeeded by Homeground in 2014. Message Sticks Message Sticks was initially held at the Sydney Opera House and afterwards toured nationally, between 1999 or 2000 and 2013. In its earliest incarnations, it incorporated Indigenous dance, music, theatre and film, but from 2002 it focused on film, curated by Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale of Blackfella Films. As event producer of the film festival, the venue aimed to showcase both established and emerging Indigenous filmmakers. From 2004 the Australian Film Commission (from 2008 Screen Australia) started funding the film festival. In June 2004, the musical production '' Ruby's Story'', telling the story of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
