The Sydney Film Festival opens tonight with the First Nations film We Are Still Here — an anthology of storylines from 10 directors and 11 screenwriters in six languages.
For the creators of the First Nations film We Are Still Here, the arrival of James Cook at Sydney’s Botany Bay 252 years ago is not the whole story.We Are Still Here will open the festival in front of 2,000 people at the State TheatreThe film, an anthology of storylines woven together from 1,000 years ago in pre-colonised Australia to a dystopian future, teamed 10 directors and 11 screenwriters in six languages, a first for Australian cinema.
"There was nothing in any of our film knowledge from an Indigenous perspective to respond to that arrival," Stanley said."We have all these perspectives and heroes that are more than just colonisation," he said. "We're on set and the announcement had just come out that the NT government was shutting down the borders to WA," Stanley said.
"You were always reminded throughout production and the edit of the importance and the gravity of what it was that we were doing and the weight that we were carrying to make sure that this had to be not good, but great," Stanley said.
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