Black River (1993 film)
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Black River is a 1993 Australian film
directed and produced by Kevin Lucas and starring Aboriginal mezzo-soprano Maroochy Barambah
. It is a film adaptation of an opera that tells a story around an Aboriginal death in custody. It was nominated for the 1993 Australian Film Institute
Award for Award Best Screenplay and won the 1994 Montréal International Festival of Films on Art Jury Prize for Adapted Screenplay of the Year.
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed and produced by Kevin Lucas and starring Aboriginal mezzo-soprano Maroochy Barambah
Maroochy Barambah
Maroochy Barambah is an Australian Aboriginal mezzo-soprano singer.She was born Yvette Isaacs in the 1950s in Cherbourg, Queensland. She is of the Turrbal-Gubbi Gubbi people and is a member of the Stolen Generations. She considers herself a beneficiary of her removal...
. It is a film adaptation of an opera that tells a story around an Aboriginal death in custody. It was nominated for the 1993 Australian Film Institute
Australian Film Institute
The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
Award for Award Best Screenplay and won the 1994 Montréal International Festival of Films on Art Jury Prize for Adapted Screenplay of the Year.