My Survival as an Aboriginal (1979)

Directed by

Essie Coffey

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

51 min

Rated

PG

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Aboriginal woman tells her own story of living on a mission in rural New South Wales. She speaks about her family and community, and their effort to hold onto their culture despite pressure to assimilate into white Australian society.

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What happens

My Survival as an Aboriginal is a 1979 Australian documentary film directed by Essie Coffey, and produced by Coffey, Alec Morgan, and Martha Ansara. It was the first documentary directed by an Aboriginal woman, and was screened at several international film festivals, winning awards at some of them. The central themes of the film include Indigenous land rights in Australia, and the determination not to assimilate into white Australian culture, but to keep Aboriginal culture alive. A sequel, My Life as I Live It, was released in 1993. My Survival as an Aboriginal continues to be screened at international film festival retrospectives and themed series, as well as at local venues and on television in Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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