The Aboriginal actor Ernie Dingo talks about his career, his origins, influences on his life and his feelings about his aboriginality. Features excerpts from his work on stage and screen, interviews with friends, mentors, family and wife and shows him at work teaching Aboriginal children to develop self-respect and white children to understand Aboriginal culture and history. An engaging look at an impressive and likeable personality.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
325392
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Biographical films
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture actors and actresses - Biography
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Music & Performing Arts → Actors - Australia - Interviews
Music & Performing Arts → Motion picture actors and actresses - Biography
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)