Ngarrindjeri Media 2014 June - Coorong SA
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We are Ngarrindjeri is a Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Change Media collaboration.
Through our ongoing groundbreaking cross-cultural partnership with Ngarrindjeri, Change Media has worked with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team, headed up by Luke Trevorrow, Clyde Rigney and Laurie Rankine Jnr, and the wider Ngarrindjeri community, to create a video to represent Ngarrindjeri culture, past and present, as part of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority’s Indigenous Cultural Support program between October 2013 and June 2014.
The project included eight collaborative workshops with Ngarrindjeri community members and their media team. The script for the video was developed with thw Ngarrindjeri Media Team over several months to identify the best way to represent Ngarrindjeri culture and ongoing connection to their lands and waters.
The participants and stakeholders decided to use excerpts from the Ngarrindjeri Land and Sea management plan for the narration. The very poetic text was developed over years by Ngarrindjeri elders and had been approved by their leaders. We then workshoped the most appropriate and feasible way to visualize the narration, to be shot across 3 main areas of the vast and beautiful Ngarrindjeri lands and waters - in the Coorong, on the Murray River and at the Encounter coast around Pt. Elliot, Goolwa and Victor Harbor.
The result is an inspiring video featuring several generations of Ngarrindjeri, elders past and present, and the breadth of Ngarrindjeri culture, lands and water, heritage and other activities.
Credits
Producer: Carl Kuddell
Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Writers: Ngarrindjeri Elders - edited selections from Ngarrindjeri Land and Sea Management Plan by Luke Trevorrow, Clyde Rigney Jnr and Laurie Rankine Jnr, in consultation with the NRA Board and Change Media
Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr
Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Camera: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Owen Love
Editors: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Narrator: Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Sumner
Sound recording: Carl Kuddell
Participants and contributors include:
Auntie Ellen Trevorrow
Uncle Darrell Sumner
Uncle Major Sumner
Prof. Daryle Rigney
Prof. Steve Hemming
Margaret Sexton
Ngarrindjeri community members
Ngarrindjeri heritage rangers
Tal Kin Jeri dancers
Ngarrindjeri Media Team
Laurie, Owen, Johnny and Daryl
Funded through the Australian Government Office for the Arts Indigenous Cultural Support
Partners - Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships, Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Attorney General, Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting, Tal-Kin-Jeri Performance group, Tallstoreez Productionz
