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1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 min. 36 sec.) ; 306285833 bytes |
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Leah Purcell's acclaimed directorial debut, Black Chicks Talking. The documentary was the only Australian film invited to screen at Robert de Niro's inaugural Tribeca Film Festival, and won the Award for most popular film at the 2003 Brisbane International Film Festival. It was also highly acclaimed at the Sydney Film Festival. In her first film, Purcell takes us into contemporary Aboriginal Australia for a chic and sophisticated investigation of what it means to be Black in Australia today.Based on Purcell's book of the same name, Black Chicks Talking invites a group of Aboriginal women to talk about their lives in an intimate, sometimes harrowing, and often joyful account. Meeting for dinner over exquisite Indigenous gourmet cuisine, five women discuss issues that have affected them and their families lives. Five different lives are then dissected and celebrated with a type of honesty and openness that is a revelation. Themes of culture, identity and denial run throughout their stories, a legacy of past government "Protection" Acts and policies. From the winners throne of Miss Australia to the warm waters of the Buccaneer Archipelago, from the Wizard of Oz to the Secret Life of Us TV series and the dormitory on Cherbourg Mission, these five women have led extraordinary lives. The subjects of the documentary are community warden and cultural tour guide Rosanna Angus, the first Aboriginal Miss Australia Kathryn Hay, actress Deborah Mailman, mother Cilla Malone and lawyer Tammy Williams.Leah Purcell, an acclaimed Aboriginal performer, turns the camera on her subjects in a passionate and challenging exploration of Australias black culture and delivers a dynamic portrait of contemporary Indigenous women. "I'm not traditional. I'm an urban contemporary black woman but I know where I'm from. I've gone back and found out about my culture and that's what makes me strong," Purcell says. "To me, Black Chicks Talking is funky. It's sexy, it's fun, it's new ground - It's young black women looking good and talking strong and it just blows every stereotypical viewpoint away."Black Chicks Talking was produced in association with SBS Independent, the Australian Film Finance Corporation, and the Australia Film Commission |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-11-10 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Aboriginal Australians in popular culture.
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Blacks -- Ethnic identity.
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Families, Aboriginal Australian.
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Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Social life and customs.
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Tasmania -- Launceston.
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Victoria -- Melbourne.
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Streaming video
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Angus, Rosanna, contributor
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Hay, Kathryn, contributor
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Mailman, Deborah, contributor
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Malone, Cilla, contributor
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Purcell, Leah, host
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Williams, Tammy, contributor
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