Cinema Screening: ABLAZE: Riverside Theatres for NAIDOC Week

Cinema Screening: ABLAZE, Raffertys Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Documentary Film for NAIDOC Week.

The true story of the first Aboriginal filmmaker William Bill Onus. Ablaze tells the story of Bill Onus, a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri man from Victoria, a truly heroic cultural and political figure who revived his peopleʼs culture in the 1940s and ignited a civil rights movement that would, against enormous odds, change the course of history. Through rare archival footage, state-of-the-art animation, vividly created digital motion graphics and eye-witness accounts, Ablaze is the compelling tale – part detective story, part contemporary opera – of how Bill and supporters brilliantly orchestrated their campaign for equality through performance, entertainment, film and sheer audacity outsmarted mighty forces seeking to destroy Indigenous cultures, languages, and communities.

Join Co-director of ABLAZE, Alec Morgan for a special Q&A Screening. Alec Morgan is a multi-award-winning filmmaker with productions that have screened at over 50 film festivals, in cinemas and on television in many countries. His credits include Lousy Little Sixpence,a seminal film about the Stolen Generations, Admission Impossible that explored the secret history of the White Australia Policy and the hybrid feature Hunt Angels, about early Australian film mavericks Rupert Kathner and Alma Brooks.