Tix On Sale Now – 18 Days | 3 Weekends | 60 Films | 100 Sessions
    • < Back
    • {{ item.title }} >
      {{ item.title }}

REGISTER FOR UPDATES

#BIFF2017

Contact the festival team


NAMATJIRA PROJECT

Directed By SERA DAVIES

Special Event – Filmmakers & Cast in attendance on Tuesday August 29 at Palace Centro

“The Namatjira Project … might just be as significant a bridge between blackfella and whitefella as the now fading memory of the march across the coathanger, or even the apology.”
– Crikey

From the trackless Australian desert to the gates of Buckingham Palace, the Namatjira family have struggled for decades to see justice done. Albert Namatjira was a man caught between two worlds. He was paraded as a great Australian, but treated with contempt. He was the first Indigenous person to be made a citizen by the Government, in a time when his people were still considered flora and fauna. And he was a pioneer, founding the Indigenous art movement and bringing vivid visions of the outback to many coast-bound Australians for the first time. His haunting works were shown across the world, and he was feted, even being introduced to the Queen. But in 1957, the dream fell apart. Namatjira was locked up for something he didn’t do; he died two years later, a broken man, and in 1983 the Government sold the copyright to his works to an art dealer. His family didn’t get a cent. Namatjira taught his children to paint, and they taught theirs. The fifth and sixth generations are now taking up the art. The questing and questioning documentary The Namatjira Project is just one of the pillars of a multidisciplinary project backing the great artist’s family in their fight for survival, justice, vindication – and to regain what is rightfully theirs. A Welcome to Country precedes this screening.

UNCLASSIFIED 15+

2017 | AUSTRALIA

87 MINS

PROD SOPHIA MARINOS

ENGLISH

PALACE CENTRO

NAMATJIRA PROJECT
Friday, August 18
10:30 am
PURCHASE TICKETS
*Filmmakers In attendance
Tuesday, August 29
6:00 pm
PURCHASE TICKETS

PALACE BARRACKS

NAMATJIRA PROJECT
Tuesday, August 22
3:15 pm
PURCHASE TICKETS
Thursday, August 24
1:00 pm
PURCHASE TICKETS

REGISTER FOR UPDATES

#BIFF2017

Contact the festival team

/BRISBANEINTERNATIONALFILMFEST

@BRISINTFILMFEST @BRISINTFILMFEST


Copyright 2018 © Brisbane International Film Festival.

MENU
  • Home
  • ABOUT BIFF
  • WHAT FILM, WHERE, WHEN?
  • OPENING NIGHT
  • CLOSING NIGHT
  • FILMS
    • FEATURES
      • Ali’s Wedding
      • Australia Day
      • Broken Ghost
      • Dave Made A Maze
      • Final Portrait
      • Fun Mom Dinner
      • Graduation
      • Happy End
      • Hotel Salvation
      • In This Corner Of The World
      • Loving Vincent
      • Manifesto
      • Maudie
      • MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI
      • ON BODY AND SOUL
      • ORDINARY PEOPLE
      • PATTI CAKE$
      • RETURNEE
      • SEXY DURGA
      • SONG TO SONG
      • That’s Not Me
      • THE WAY STATION
      • The Party
      • THE SQUARE
      • The Teacher
      • Watch The Sunset
      • WEIRDOS
      • WONDERSTRUCK
    • SHOWCASES & CENTREPIECE
      • LOVELESS
      • 24 Frames
      • ON BODY AND SOUL
      • FACES PLACES
      • THE WAY STATION
    • SPECIAL EVENTS
      • NAMATJIRA PROJECT
      • THE LAST DALAI LAMA?
    • DOCUMENTARIES
      • A LIFE IN WAVES
      • BLUE
      • CHASING TRANE
      • Citizen Jane: Battle For The City
      • FACES PLACES
      • LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
      • LIFE IS A VERY STRANGE THING
      • MY YEAR WITH HELEN
      • NAMATJIRA PROJECT
      • THE GO-BETWEENS: RIGHT HERE
      • THE LAST DALAI LAMA?
    • RETROSPECTIVE
      • The Return
      • The Banishment
      • Elena
      • Leviathan
      • Loveless
    • MASTERS
      • Afterimage
      • 24 Frames
      • Blade Of The Immortal
    • BALTIC SPOTLIGHT
      • Escaping Riga
      • Exiled
      • In The Crosswind
      • The Saint
    • FREE FAMILY ANIMATIONS
      • Program 1 – Queen Bum And Chums
      • Program 2 – Giraffe Soup & Cheese Doodles
    • REFUGEE WOMEN – HISTORY’S SILENT HEROES
    • SHORT FILMS
      • Blight
      • Cold Springs
      • Empty Space
      • Fox And The Whale
      • It’s About Time
      • Merry-Go-Round
      • PU
      • Woman At Home
      • Woman With An Editing Bench
  • CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION
  • SESSION TIMES & BUY TICKETS
  • VENUES & PRICES
  • NEWS & MEDIA
  • SPONSORS
  • BIFF CENTURION AWARD