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Screen cap from promotional trailer
Adaptation of
Bran Nue Dae : A Musical Journey
1990
single work
musical theatre
Issue Details:
First known date:
2009...
2009
Bran Nue Dae
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Film Details - Robyn Kershaw Productions ; Mayfan , 2009
Producers:
Graeme Isaac (Producer)
Robyn Kershaw (Producer)
Christopher Mapp (Executive Producer)
Matthew Street (Executive Producer)
David Whealy (Executive Producer)
Glennie Allan (Associate Producer)
Andrea Distefano (Associate Producer)
Production Companies:
Robyn Kershaw Productions
Mayfan
Director of Photography:
Andrew Lesnie
Editors:
Rochelle Oshlack
Production Designers:
Felicity Abbott
Composer:
Jimmy Chi
Kuckles
Cezary Skubiszewski (soundtrack)
Music:
A cast soundtrack was released in January 2010 by Sony Music.
Cast:
Incl. Rocky McKenzie (Willie), Ernie Dingo (Uncle Tadpole), Jessica Mauboy (Rosie), Geoffrey Rush (Father Benedictus), Magda Szubanski (Roadhouse Betty), Dan Sultan (Lester), 'Missy' Higgins (Annie), Tom Budge (Slippery), Deborah Mailman (Roxanne), Ningali Lawford (Theresa), Ferdy Richard Mauboy (Rosie's Father), Samson Page (Daryl), Josiah Page (Tommy), Stephen B'Aamba Albert (Pastor Flaggon).
Release Dates:
World premiere held on 8 August 2009 at the Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia). Also screeened at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival (Canada), 2009 Dubai International Film Festival (United Arab Emirates), 2010 Sundance Film Festival (USA), and 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA). Released commercially in Australia on 14 January 2010.
Location:
- Filmed on location in Western Australia, including Broome, Clontarf Aboriginal College (Waterford, Perth), Fremantle, Kununurra, and University of Western Australia (Perth).
Awards:
- Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia (2010), Audience Award for Best Australian film (winner)
Notes:
Kuckles emerged from a vibrant music scene in Broome in the 1960s and 1970s, in the days before television came to town. The above line-up formed in 1981 when a number of Broome musicians travelled to Adelaide to study at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM), drawn there by the success of other newly formed Aboriginal bands such as No Fixed Address, Us Mob, and Coloured Stone, and by the opportunity to focus full time on their music. Kuckles created a distinctive Broome sound by using traditional language with a fusion of country, folk, rock, and reggae. The title track of their groundbreaking 1981 recording 'Milliya Rumarra' translates from the Yawuru language as first (or brand new) day. Each of the Kuckles members was involved to varying degrees in the early workshopping of Bran Nue Dae.
Settings:
- Broome, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
- 1969
