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Dreaming in Motion - Shit Skin: Going home
Title:
Dreaming in Motion - Shit Skin: Going home
NFSA ID
610481
Year
2002
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Luke (Kirk Page) and Grandma Nina (Freda Glynn) stand beside a waterhole. Grandma Nina sees people from her past.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
Shit Skin Synopsis
A short drama about a young man who takes his grandmother back to the place of her childhood so that she may reconnect with her surviving family.
Shit Skin Curator's Notes
A beautiful short film that tells of the relationship between a grandmother and her grandson.
Other films in the AFC Indigenous Branch drama initiative Dreaming in Motion are Black Talk, Flat, Mimi and Turn Around (all 2002).
Notes by Romaine Moreton
Production company
Sista Girl Productions
Producer
Kimba Thompson
Executive producer
Sally Riley
Director
Nicholas Boseley
Writer
Nicholas Boseley
Cast
Frank Couchy, Freda Glynn, Emily Hayes, Desmond Kunoth, Kirk Page, Max Stuart, Marly Wells
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