• Episode 17 - Rachel Perkins

  • Oct 9 2023
  • Length: 45 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 17 - Rachel Perkins

  • Summary

  • Rachel Perkins is an Australian film-and-television director, producer, and screenwriter. She directed the films Radiance (1998), One Night the Moon (2001), Bran Nue Dae (2010), and Jasper Jones (2017). She is an Arrernte and Kalkatungu woman from Central Australia, who was raised in Canberra by the Aboriginal leader Charles Perkins and his wife Eileen. She founded Blackfella Films in 1992, which has produced acclaimed television programmes, including First Australians, Mabo, and Redfern Now. She has served as a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission and on the Board of Screen Australia. She was Curator for the 2009 Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival and was President of the AIATSIS Foundation for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Her Boyer Lecture of 2019 was called The End of Silence. She is presently co-Chair of the Yes23 campaign of Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition in the imminent Voice Referendum. 

     

    Producer: Patrick Telfer. Line Producer: Samuel Curkpatrick. Music composed and performed by: Cameron Deyell and Reuben Lewis. Image credit: Celeste de Clario. Director: Aaron Corn. Executive Producer: Marcia Langton. 

    https://www.yes23.com.au/

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