Constellation
Black documentary and truth telling
Featured in this constellation
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My Survival as an Aboriginal
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Black Man's Houses
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Hunting Ground (Haunted) Van Diemen's Land
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Who killed Malcolm Smith?
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Prison Songs
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Report to the Mist
Essie Coffey was a trailblazer of Indigenous filmmaking, being the first Aboriginal woman to direct a documentary. The film spotlights the outspoken voice Coffey utilised to convey the realities faced by Aboriginal people and to encourage resistance to assimilation.