National Reconciliation Week Film Series @ Leongatha Library

Schedule

Fri, 02 Jun, 2023 at 04:30 pm

Location

2 Smith Street,Leongatha,3953,AU | Leongatha, VI

Join us for a series of special film screenings for National Reconciliation Week 2023.
All are welcome to Leongatha Library for the final film in our National Reconciliation Week film screening series; follow-on documentary, Mabo - Life of an Island Man , from director Trevor Graham.
About Mabo - Life of an Island Man:
Mabo - Life of an Island Man is the story of a small island and an extraordinary man. Eddie Koiki Mabo was born on Murray Island in the Torres Strait, but lived most of his life in exile. Only after his death did the island wholeheartedly welcome him home. By then the island and Eddie, between them, had changed the legal and political landscape of Australia.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie Mabo's tragic death, the High Court of Australia upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held "native title" to three islands on the eastern fringe of the Torres Strait.
Aboriginal and Islander communities across Australia greeted the Mabo judgement with jubilation. The legal fiction that Australia was an empty land when first occupied by white people had been laid to rest - by the highest court in the land. After more than 200 years of struggle, European law was at last coming to grips with pre-existing indigenous law.
But the world knows little of Eddie Mabo, the man who gave his name - and much of his life - to a legal judgement that continues to reverberate throughout Australia. Filmmaker Trevor Graham counted Eddie as a friend during the last few years of Mabo's life. Land Bilong Islanders, his 1989 documentary, would become the only film record of the Mabo proceedings.
Now he has made a new film, a feature documentary about the little-known life of Eddie Mabo. It tells the private and public stories of an island man so passionate about family and home that he fought an entire nation and its legal system. Though he died before his greatest victory was won, it has forever ensured his place - on Murray Island and in Australian history.
Mabo-Life of an Island Man is a film about Eddie Koiki Mabo, the public and the private man.
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"An engrossing film about courage, vision and passion. It earns these accolades by telling with great poignancy the story of Eddie Koiki Mabo, whose love of his ancestral land and his outrage at injustices meted out to his people drove him to achieve what seemed impossible. "—The Sydney Morning Herald
"A gripping story about heroism in the face of impossible odds A classic story of a man battling The System for his rights."—The Sunday Age
"A moving and personal story…. The strength of the film lies in the portrayal of Eddie Koiki Mabo, [who] challenged the myths of invasion and colonization through Australia's own legal system and won."—The Contemporary Pacific
"Both sad and fascinating…a very important film…Recommended for high school and beyond in sociology, anthropology, history, and indigenous affairs."—Anthropology Review Database
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SELECTED AWARDS & FESTIVALS
-WINNER Best Documentary, 1997 Australian Film Institute Awards
-WINNER Best Documentary, 1997 Sydney Film Festival
-1998 Margaret Mead Film Festival (New York)
-2001 Amnesty International Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada)
-Most Popular Film, 1997 Brisbane Film Festival
-Athens International Film & Video Festival (1998)
-Melbourne International Film Festival (1997)
-Denver Film Festival (Media One) (1997)
-Calcutta (Kolkata) International Film Festival (1997)
-Australian Film Week - Ireland (1998)
-Douarnenez Festival of Ethnic Minority (1997)
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More Information:
This film is the final of three Kanopy documentaries screening at Leongatha Library to commemorate National Reconciliation Week 2023 .
-Film 1: In My Blood It Runs. Screening Tuesday May 30, 5:30pm - 7:00pm.
-Film 2: Land Bilong Islanders. Screening Wednesday May 31, 5:00pm - 6:00pm.
-Film 3: Mabo - Life of an Island Man. Screening Friday June 2, 4:30pm - 6:00pm.
Bookings are preferred for this event as places are limited, however, walk-ins are warmly welcome.
The film is rated G. The G classification is suitable for everyone. G products may contain classifiable elements such as language and themes that are very mild in impact.
If you require more information, please phone us on 5662 4829.
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Myli - My Community Library acknowledges the traditional custodians of the various lands where our services and programs take place. We pay our respect to the Elders, past and present, and acknowledge the long and proud history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, who have nurtured and cared for the waters, skies, and lands that we gather on, for many thousands of years, and continue to do so to this day.

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