Eight Ladies
Eight Ladies
Tales from the Daly
Tales from the Daly
Eight Ladies
Eight Ladies

Screened as part of NZIFF 2011

Eight Ladies / Tales from the Daly 

Lunchtime special: eight ladies teach you how to catch and cook an echidna. Two lively recent short docos from the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, an invaluable vital force in contemporary First Nations culture.

42 minutes

CAAMA, the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, is a vital force in contemporary Aboriginal culture. (Samson & Delilah’s Warwick Thornton has long been associated.) Two recent half-hour CAAMA films cast fresh eyes on traditional subjects.

Eight Ladies 2010

Director

Producer

Tanya Fraser

Photography

Nicola Daley

Editor

Tania Nehme

Music

Warren H. Williams

Narrator

Anita Bailey

With

Mavis Young
,
Mary Morton
,
Pansy McLeod
,
Lena Skinner
,
Rosie Ngwarreye
,
Jeannie Pula
,
Judy Purvis
,
Kate Morton
,
Lucky Morton
,
Dorothy Kunoth
,
Patsy Kemarra
Australia In Alyawarr with English subtitles
22 minutes

The Eight Ladies are from the Sandover River region about 250km north of Alice Springs. The filmmakers joined them on a five-day journey into the bush and learnt a thing or two about hunting echidna and gathering bush foods. As they sit around their campfire at night they talk about the old days and how much, and how little, life has changed.

Tales from the Daly 2010

Director

Producer

Tanya Fraser

Photography

Allan Collins

Editor

Haig Stewart

Music

George Papanicolaou

Narrator

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann

With

Adam Sambano
,
Christina Yambeing
,
Patricia Marrfura McTaggart
,
Peter Martin
Australia In Ngen'giwumirri with English subtitles
20 minutes

Tales from the Daly combines resplendent images of the Daly River region in monsoon season with an enacted tale that has been told for generations to teach the young to be wary of nature’s treachery: the Wabuymem, a little grey spirit, lures curious children away from their grannies and into the tangled mass of the banyan tree, never to be seen again.