The Last Trackers of the Outback (2007)

Directed by

Eric Ellena

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

51 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the last Aboriginal trackers in Australia who can read animal footprints and human traces. It shows how their skills help with cattle work and police cases while the elders worry the knowledge will be lost when they die.

slow-pacedobservationaleducationalreverentnostalgicquietintimateearnest

What happens

The Last Trackers of the Outback is a 2007 documentary film about Aboriginal trackers in Australia. The documentary, co-directed by Eric Ellena and Vanessa Escalante, won the Public's Choice Award at 2008 FIFO – Pacific International Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti. The films tells the story of the last of the native Aboriginal trackers in Australia and documents their unique tracking capacities and the usefulness of their tracking skills, for example in cattle breeding and in police investigations. The film explores the unique skills of these trackers and the importance to understand and record this knowledge before the great trackers disappear and take their secrets and extraordinary skills with them. Featured in the documentary are some of the last great trackers of the outback such as Tommy George. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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