Change Media Training

2013 June - Adelaide SA

Our Digital Media Training Toolkit offers a range of tips and tricks we have created over the years in collaboration with communities across Australia between 2010 and 2013. It covers the key elements of digital media production, from development, production and editing to ethics, impact and evaluation.

The toolkit has a strong focus on Indigenous media training and features many Ngarrindjeri participants explaining their step by step training process, during workshops in regional South Australia.

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The toolkit was produced with assistance from the Australian Government Office for the Arts Indigenous Cultural Support and the Australia Council for the Arts Community Partnerships.

The project also received support from the South Australian Government through Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships.

Partners

Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Australian Refugee Association Inc

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Attorney General

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Dusty Feet Mob - This Story's True

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From the sand hills of Port Augusta to the bustling streets of Adelaide, Dusty Feet Mob’s young Aboriginal performers dance their way into the hearts and minds of their enraptured audiences, using the power of song and dance to tell stories of the Stolen Generation and help heal the pain of the past. As they prepare to perform their signature song, Archie Roach’s iconic ‘Took the Children Away,’ the dancers and their dedicated supporters offer creative, intergenerational and deeply emotional insights into the story of the Stolen Generation, determined to carry on Uncle Archie’s legacy – the past will not be forgotten.

Dusty Feet Mob – This Story’s True was created by Aboriginal community members in Port Augusta, in collaboration with award-winning production company Change Media, through an initiative of the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), Country Arts SA and the City of Port Augusta.

For Archie Roach, it’s the children carrying on the legacy of healing that makes him especially proud and grateful. Archie said: “In our First People’s culture we have story, song and dance. The story of the Stolen Generations is the story we hear and take in with our minds and the song enters our spirit. But dance helps us to move and weave that story and song through our body.  Dusty Feet Mob help us heal holistically; through our mind -  the story; through our spirit - the song and through our body – the dance.”

Dusty Feet Mob – This Story’s True is one of two documentaries, alongside The Mulka Man, created through the Port Augusta Emerging Film Development Program, a series of development and production workshops for emerging Aboriginal screen creatives held from July to October in 2019, funded and presented by the SAFC through its Aboriginal Screen Strategy, along with Country Arts SA with support from the City of Port Augusta, delivered by Change Media with additional support from the Australia Council for the Arts.

We are presenting the finished documentary to broadcasters and festivals in 2020. Find the full Media Release here.

The film has won Best Documentary at the 2020 SASA Awards. Congratulations to all involved!

The film also won Best Documentary at the 2020 International My Hero Film Festival in Los Angeles. Congratulations all around!

Dusty Feet Mob are more than just an Aboriginal dance group. They are a community that nurtures strength, confidence and dignity. They are a community that builds connection to culture, community and country. They know that storytelling through dance and song is their culture, it’s a powerful way of entering into past hurts and injustices experienced by Aboriginal families in a way that allows both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to grow in acceptance, understanding and empathy together. 

An essential make-up of the group is the strong support provided by parents, grandparents and the Port Augusta Community, who take seriously the role of passing knowledge and stories down to the younger generations. Dusty Feet Mob is a powerful expression of the old and the new: Young people are not just "the leaders of tomorrow", they are leaders of today. Dusty Feet Mob provides opportunities for young people to learn about themselves and develop leadership skills for life. 

SAFC Associate Executive, Production and Development Nara Wilson, who facilitated the program, said: “Through the SAFC’s regular workshops and initiatives over the last few years, Port Augusta has become a real hub of activity in SA for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers, with practitioners coming from all over the state to learn new skills and develop their craft. We are proud to highlight Indigenous voices, and facilitate Indigenous storytelling through these programs.”

SAFC CEO Kate Croser said: “These documentaries not only show what incredible emerging screen talent there is in South Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, but they highlight the importance of the SAFC’s Aboriginal Screen Strategy in developing and supporting Indigenous screen practitioners, and bringing their stories and voices to the fore. I congratulate the filmmakers on their success.”

Samantha Yates, Country Arts SA’s Cultural Programming Manager, Aboriginal and Reconciliation Programs said: “Opportunities for professional Aboriginal film development in regional areas are essential. Having a platform to share and broaden awareness gives  voice to many untold stories. Dusty Feet Mob – This Story’s True is an incredible example of how a short film can educate the general public and create deeper compassion for the stolen generations.”

Change Media acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in Australia on which this program was filmed.

Credits:

Production Company: Tallstoreez Productionz Pty Ltd t/as Change Media

Writers: Paul Tanner, Piri Eddy, Johanis Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Steven Fatt-Lang, Marika Davies, Lyall Campbell-Ware, Bonita Leahy, Bessy-May Taylor-Haseldine, Denise Champion, Donny McKenzie, Roxanne Lawrie

Directors: Johanis Lyons-Reid and Paul Tanner

Producers/ mentor: Carl Kuddell and Jen Lyons-Reid

Associate Producer: Paul Tanner

Director of Photography/ mentor: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Camera Operators: Steven Fatt-Lang, Marika Davies, Lyall Campbell-Ware, Paul Tanner

Sound Recordist/ mentor: Piri Eddy

Sound operators: Steven Fatt-Lang, Marika Davies, Lyall Campbell-Ware

Editor: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Composer and Sound Mix: Justin Pounsett

Original song: Archie Roach ‘Took The Children Away’

BTS Stills Photographer: Carl Kuddell

Archival Stills: Paul Tanner

Dusty Feet Mob interviews:

Wanita Calyun – Artistic Director/ Choreographer, Dusty Feet Mob

Paul Tanner – Manager, Dusty Feet Mob

Maria Anderson  – Chairperson Dusty Feet Mob, Wanita’s mother

Justin Mogridge – Wanita’s father

Archie Roach – Singer, ‘Took The Children Away’

Sarcha Taylor - Dusty Feet Mob member

Tyeisha Taylor  - Dusty Feet Mob member

Micah Buckskin  - Dusty Feet Mob member

Marika Garlett  - Dusty Feet Mob member

Josh Saunders  - Dusty Feet Mob member

Dusty Feet Mob dancers:

Wanita Calyun, Tyrone Taylor, Sarcha Taylor, Tyeisha Taylor, Josh Saunders, Shalana Cox, Jakeem Cox , Tyree Cox, Tia Buckskin, Laila Buckskin, Micah Buckskin, Mareeka Garlett, Twyla Stuart, Rikki-Lee Bodger

Thanks to:

Archie Roach and Jill Shelton

Dusty Feet Mob crew and supporters

Mii Pudanthi festival - Angelena Harradine

Mushroom Music – Lisa Businovski

Warner Music Australia – Rose Sejean

Port Augusta Car Club - Mark Taylor

City of Port Augusta – Maria Anderson

Country Arts SA – Sam Yates and Josh Barbo

South Australian Film Corporation – Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin and Nara Wilson

DEVELOPED AND FINANCED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FILM CORPORATION

and

Country Arts SA

The City of Port Augusta

Australia Council for the Arts

©2019 Change Media, Dusty Feet Mob and the City of Port Augusta

The Mulka Man

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Adnyamathanha Elder Roy Coulthard is The Mulka Man, the last wood carver of the Flinders Ranges. With time against him, Uncle Roy is determined to see his tradition live on. From the rich ochre sands outside Port Augusta in search of the perfect Mulka tree to a firelit camp back-dropped by the stunning Flinders Ranges, Uncle Roy passes his expert carving knowledge to the next generation. But to do so, he must bravely cross traditional conventions and gender lines, teaching women the art of Mulka wood carving in order to keep Adnyamathanha culture alive.

Change Media partnered with the City of Port Augusta to deliver a series of media literacy workshops with First Peoples participants from a wide range of communities in and around Port Augusta.

The first production resulting from the workshops is ‘The Mulka Man’, a short documentary following Adnyamathanha Elder Roy Coulthard, the last wood carver of the Flinders Ranger, as he passes on his skills to a new generation of Mulka carvers, crossing traditional conventions and gender lines in the process.

We worked with Wangkangurru woman Marika Davies as the co-director/ co-producer and mentored participants across all stages of production.

Festival updates: The Mulka Man has been invited to screen at The Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival in Queensland, Oct 2021. In 2021 The Mulka Man was selected to screen at Koori Mail’s/ First Nations Media’s Blak Cinema Festival in Lismore, NSW. And in 2020 the Nunga Screen film festival toured the film throughout regional locations in South Australia.

The project has been funded by the Port Augusta City through the Regional Arts Fund and Country Arts SA and the South Australian Film Corporation grants for an Aboriginal screen initiative, with additional support from the Australia Council for the Arts through Change Media’s What Privilege initiative 2019.

Change Media acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in Australia on which this program was filmed.

Credits:

Writers: Marika Davies, Piri Eddy, Johanis Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Steven Fatt-Lang, Paul Tanner, Lyall Campbell-Ware, Bonita Leahy, Bessy-May Taylor-Haseldine, Denise Champion, Donny McKenzie, Roxanne Lawrie

Directors: Johanis Lyons-Reid and Marika Davies

Producers / mentor: Carl Kuddell and Jen Lyons-Reid

Associate Producer: Marika Davies

Director of Photography / mentor: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Camera Operators: Steven Fatt-Lang, Marika Davies, Paul Tanner

Sound Recordist / mentor: Piri Eddy

Sound operators: Steven Fatt-Lang, Marika Davies

Editor: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Composer and Sound Mix: Justin Pounsett

BTS Stills Photographer: Carl Kuddell

Mulka Arts interviews:

Uncle Roy Coulthard – Adnyamathanha Elder

Marika Davies – Wangkangurru woman

Mulka Arts participants:

Roy Coulthard, Marika Davies, Matthew Davies, John Davies, Phillip Naylor

Colleen Naylor, Anisha Davies, Flynn Spencer, Lahni Von Senden, Kellie Von Senden, Tweedy Martinot, Maya Fettke, Jakai Page, Georgia Keenan, Shayleigh Cooper, Casey Green

Thanks to:

Mulka Arts crew and their supporters

Stirling North Primary School

City of Port Augusta – Maria Anderson

Country Arts SA – Sam Yates and Josh Barbo

South Australian Film Corporation – Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin and Nara Wilson

DEVELOPED AND FINANCED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF:

THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FILM CORPORATION

Country Arts SA

The City of Port Augusta

Australia Council for the Arts

©2019 Change Media, Mulka Arts and the City of Port Augusta

Deadly Family Portraits - ABC

South Australia, 2018-2019

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.

Change Media supported three emerging Aboriginal producer and director teams to create a three part mini series for ABC iView. Carl Kuddell worked with the teams as a consultant producer across the series, and Change Media offered its services as a post production house.

Electric Mimili. Screenshot from the documentary. ©2019 Sequioa Productions

Deadly Family Portraits, a new production initiative to celebrate and showcase the depth of artistic talent among Aboriginal families and emerging Aboriginal filmmakers was launched today by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), ABC Arts iView and Arts South Australia.

The Deadly Family Portraits series presents the compelling stories of three outstanding Aboriginal families, the Sansburys, the Crombies and the Fieldings, where artistic talent continues across the generations. Each episode have been produced by an Aboriginal filmmaking team to create an intriguing conversation between artist and filmmaker; as they reflect upon identity, culture, life, art, country and family. Each film premiered on ABC iView Arts in 2019.

Crombie Crew. Screenshot from the documentary. ©2019 Gina Rings

Credits

Directors - Pearl Berry, Isaac Wilson, Edoardo Crismani

Producers - Lilla Berry, Sierra Schrader, Gina Rings

Consultant Series Producer - Carl Kuddell

Editors - Emma McGavisk and Johanis Lyons-Reid

Colorist - David Tang

DOPs - Johanis Lyons-Reid, Allan Collins, David Roberts

Sound mix - Carlos Manrique Clavijo

SAFC - Nara Wilson and Amanda Duthie

ABC Executive Producers - Lin Jie Kong and Sally Chesher

Partners:

Deadly Family Portraits is an initiative of South Australian Film Corporation, Arts South Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Supported by TARNANTHI Art Gallery of South Australia, Mimili Maku Arts, Tandanya Arts Centre, Electric Fields

Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe

Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe Partnership CLLMM evaluation - SA 2016

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Change Media in collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri media team produced  a short evaluation video about the Ngarrindjeri partnerships in the delivery of the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) Recovery Project.The video will be utilised as an evaluation and promotion product by NRA, Ngarrindjeri community and the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR).

The video features highlights of five years of work conducted by Ngarrindjeri under the CLLMM Recovery Project, and the significant positive impact this had on Ngarrindjeri community and lands and water, the program's successes, challenges and future vision.

Credits

Producer: Carl Kuddell

Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid

Writers: Ngarrindjeri managers Luke Trevorrow, in consultation with the NRA Board, DENWR and in collaboration with Change Media

Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr, Owen Love Jnr, Carl Kuddell

Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Camera: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Owen Love

Editors: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Sound recording: Carl Kuddell

Participants and contributors include:

Uncle Derek Walker

Prof. Daryle Rigney

Prof. Steve Hemming

Lachlan Sutherland

Uncle Major Sumner

Auntie Ellen Trevorrow

Ngarrindjeri community members

Ngarrindjeri heritage rangers

Tal Kin Jeri dancers

Ngarrindjeri Media Team

Acknowledgements:

The Coorong Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Recovery Project is funded by the South Australian Government’s Murray Futures program and the Australian Government.

This Ngarrindjeri Partnership Porject evaluation video is a part of the Coorong Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Recovery Project, funded by the South Australian Government’s Murray Futures program and the Australian Government.

©2016 Ngarrindjeri and Change Media

Partners - Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation, South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Urimbirra Wildlife Park Victor Harbor

We Are Water People

2016 June - Coorong, Lakes and Murray River, SA

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Change Media and Ngarrindjeri collaborated on a short web-documentary, as an engaging promotional tool for Ngarrindjeri and DEWNR, to showcase the significance of Ngarrindjeri science and cultural understanding of the Murray Mouth, the Murray River, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong.

The documentary features significant Ngarrindjeri cultural and caring for country practices and locations along the Murray River, the Lower Lakes, Coorong and the Murray Mouth, to highlight the spiritual connection between Ngarrindjeri and their lands and waters.
The documentary follows the narration script and storyboard developed by NRA, Change Media and DEWNR in late 2015, with a voice-over performed by Ngarrindjeri elder Ellen Trevorrow.

Credits

Producer: Carl Kuddell

Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid

Writers: Ngarrindjeri managers Luke Trevorrow, Clyde Rigney Jnr and Laurie Rankine Jnr, in consultation with the NRA Board, DENWR and in collaboration with Change Media

Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr, Owen Love Jnr, Carl Kuddell

Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Camera: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Owen Love

Editors: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Jennifer Lyons-Reid

Narrator: Ngarrindjeri Elder Ellen Trevorrow

Sound recording: Carl Kuddell

Participants and contributors include:

Auntie Ellen Trevorrow

Uncle Bud

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. Arnold, Lalo

Funded through the South Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

©2016 Ngarrindjeri and Change Media

Partners

Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

Urimbirra Wildlife Park Victor Harbor

Ngarrindjeri Shorts 1 - ABC

Everything is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Shorts 1 - ABC iView - 2016 January - SA

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For Ngarrindjeri, everything is connected. Join their elders Ellen Trevorrow and Major Sumner on country as they share stories of art, culture and survival. We collaborated with Ngarrindjeri to create a beautiful web series for the inaugural Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub, linking Ngarrindjeri art, culture and country.

The Ngarrindjeri weaving, dancing and wood-carving videos showcase Ngarrindjeri culture and invite people to visit and participate in cultural activities at Camp Coorong. They were created during a series of multi-arts and capacity-building workshops with Ngarrindjeri communities in 2016.

The 4x 7min series is available on ABC’s iView arts channel under the title ‘Ngarrindjeri Shorts’. Click on the images below to watch all four episodes.

We Are Ngarrindjeri - Everything Is Connected

Ngarrindjeri Weaving - Everything Is Connected

Ngarrindjeri Carving - Everything Is Connected

Ngarrindjeri Dance - Everything Is Connected

FInd 30sec trailers for Everything is Connected here:

Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Dance - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM

Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Weaving - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM

Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Carving - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM

Click here for Ngarrindjeri Shorts season 2 - Ngarrindjeri Speaking for SeaCountry.

News flash - Thursday May 19th, 2016:

Everything Is Connected has been nominated for the Official Selection of the International Melbourne WebFest 2016! We are also nominated for Best Non-Fiction [Australia] and Best Cinematography [International]!!!

The series also was nominated for the 2016 SA Screen Awards and will screen on ABC iView in July 2016. And we can now announce that we have received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts for a Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub, which will include another web series featuring Ngarrindjeri artists and cultural stories.

Big congrats to our team both at Ngarrindjeri and Change Media - and a huge thanks to everyone involved and our partners and friends for all your support!

Together with our community partners, the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and the Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association, we delivered a series of multi-arts community engagement and capacity-building workshops in 2015-2016, to transmit Ngarrindjeri culture to young leaders and simultaneously created three new digital media works: Ngarrindjeri Carving with Elder Major Sumner and community members, Ngarrindjeri Dancing with Tal Kin Jeri dance group, and Ngarrindjeri Weaving with Elder Auntie Ellen Trevorrow and community members.

The inter-generational cultural exchange during the workshops, masterclasses and co-creative productions supported core elements of Ngarrindjeri cultural and arts activities.

The artworks, artifacts and a series of engaging cinema quality multimedia artworks are now being used by Ngarrindjeri to communicate culture and connection to country to the wider community.

Production credits

Producers: Carl Kuddell

Series Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid  

Director: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Developed by: Clyde Rigney Jnr, Luke Trevorrow and Laurie Rankine Jnr, Jennifer Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell and Johanis Lyons-Reid, in consultation with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr

Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Assistant Camera: Laurie Rankine Jnr, Owen Love

Editor & Post-Production: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Sound recording: Carl Kuddell, Laurie Rankine Jnr 

Participants and contributors include

Auntie Ellen Trevorrow

Uncle Major Moogy Sumner

Ngarrindjeri community members

Alice Abdulla

Edith Carter

Latoya Love

Harmony Love

Bessie Rigney

Cheyenne Carter

Thomas Trevorrow

Tal Kin Jeri dancers

Loretta Sumner

Krissa Sumner

Major Sumner

Stacia Sumner

Lianna Sumner

Tyrone Lindsay

Jordon Karpany

Damien Wanganeen

Ryan Knowles

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority team

Clyde Rigney Jnr

Luke Trevorrow

Laurie Rankine Jnr

Owen Love

Supported by:

Australia Council for the Arts

Arts SA

Change Media

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

Natural Resources Management Board SA Murray Darling Basin

The Rural City of Murray Bridge

Alexandrina Council

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian Government through Arts SA.

Nation to Nation - Aboriginal Authorities

Aboriginal Regional Authorities Initiative SA 2015 February - SA

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In collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, we produced Nation to Nation, a 25min documentary about the new South Australian Government Aboriginal Regional Authorities (ARA) initiative. The video showcases the benefits and opportunities of Aboriginal Regional Authorities in the context of colonization and new approaches for respectful governance and support for Indigenous representation in SA.

It features the four selected trial groups at their different stages of development and implementation:

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority - Murraylands, Lower Lakes, Coorong and South Coast

Narungga Regional Authority - Yorke Penisula and surrounding islands

Kaurna Heritage Board - wider Adelaide area

Aboriginal Community Engagement Group Port Augusta and surrounding areas

The documentary features the views of Indigenous key leaders, detailing the process, development, and envisaged and current best practice and future outlook for each participating Aboriginal Authority, in Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Point Pierce and Port Adelaide. Each trial group cover aspects of the five key issues and activities, ranging from Indigenous governance and leadership initiatives, Working on Country programs, to cultural engagement and Indigenous authority and self determination.

The project started development in October 2014, shooting across regional SA in 5 locations between November 2014 and January 2015.

Thanks for all the amazing community support
Kaurna Nation Heritage Association Inc
Living Kaurna Culture Centre
ART Employment
Peachey Place Community Centre
Kauwi Interpretive Centre SA Water
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Narungga Aboriginal Corporation Regional Authority
Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation
Point Pearce Aboriginal Health Service - SA Health
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority
Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting
Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
The Rural City of Murray Bridge
Aboriginal Community Engagement Group ACEG Port Augusta
Port Augusta Aboriginal Family Violence Legal Services
Port Augusta Youth Centre
Bungala Aboriginal Corporation
Davenport Community
Port Augusta City Council
Pricewaterhousecooper Indigenous Consulting Pty Ltd

Thanks to our funders:
The South Australian Government
Department of State Development - Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Change Media

Developed with support from Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

© 2015 South Australian Government
Department of State Development - Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Change Media and Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

Miwi Wisdom - TarraWarra Biennale

2014 August - TarraWarra Museum of Art Healesville VIC

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Change Media was invited to collaborate with Professor Diane Bell on her recent one-act play with Ngarrindjeri weavers, called 'Weaving and Whispers: Miwi Wisdom' to launch at the TarraWarra Biennial 2014 'Whisper in my Mask' in Healesville, Victoria, August 16th 2014.

The co-creative, community-driven play focuses on Ngarrindjeri women's knowledge, the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair and the role of anthropologists and curators in suppressing traditional oral knowledge.

Our contribution included creative support for the performance team, prop-making, the production of a three-channel moving image projection to illustrate and illuminate the play, for 3 projectors, and the video documentation of the work and the Q & A, produced in collaboration with our community partners from the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.

A Word from the Playwright

In ‘Weaving and Whispers: Miwi wisdom’, we invite the audience into the world of women’s weaving. What do Ngarrindjeri women talk about while they weave?  What does that have to do with women’s sacred knowledge?  How is this knowledge understood by the institutions dedicated to conserve and preserve Indigenous knowledge? Stories, told as women weave, reveal the hidden truths of their relationship to their country, families and sacred beliefs. This knowledge is inaccessible to those who privilege written texts and dismiss oral traditions. Through their Miwi, their 'sixth sense', located in the pit of the stomach, Ngarrindjeri wisdom comes to full voice.

We have been busy shooting exquisite footage of Auntie Ellen Trevorrow's weaving techniques and worked with Diane Bell and Darrell Sumner on the moving image elements, prop design and dramaturgy of the play.

The play was presented in two performances at the TarraWarra Museum, at the launch of the international exhibition ' Whisper in my Mask', co-curated by Djon Mundine OAM and Natalie King in Healesville, Victoria.

Credits: Moving image creation and documentation

Change Media

Jennifer Lyons-Reid - Artistic Director, Editor

Carl Kuddell - Creative Producer, Editor

Johanis Lyons-Reid - Director of Photography, Trainer

Ngarrindjeri Media Team

Laurie Rankine Jnr - Second Camera  

John Karpany - Third Camera

Cyril Trevorrow - Supervisor

Weaving and Whispers Play

Professor Diane Bell - Playwright, Co-creative Director and Producer

Cast

Aunty Ellen Trevorrow

Ellie Wilson

Debbie Rankine

Destiny Rankine

Stephanie Russell

Djon Mundine AOM

Dr. Karen Hughes

Professor Diane Bell

A special thanks to the team at Tarrawarra Museum Healesville for the invitation to be part of the 2014 Biennial ‘Whisper in my Mask’:

Djon Mundine OAM - co-curator of the Tarrawarra Biennial

Victoria Lynn - Tarrawarra Museum Director

The documentation and moving image production was supported through

The South Australian Government Arts SA Partnership for Strategic Communities

Tallstoreez Productionz

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

The Play and Performance were supported by generous contributions to the '21st Century Lamington Drive' for the ‘Ngarrindjeri Women Weavers Project’ designated by the National Foundation for Australian Women as a preferred donor fund;

by the Meningie Uniting Church through a gift to the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association

and by Victor Harbor Removals through donation of boxes for props

© 2014 Change Media, Diane Bell, Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association, and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

We Are Ngarrinjderi - ABC

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

Meningie Foreshore Restoration

Ngarrindjeri Media 2014 May - Meningie SA

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Between April and May 2014, Change Media worked with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and its media team and the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, to produce a co-creative documentary about the Meningie Foreshore Restoration project.

The video was developed with the key stakeholders and shot during a one day production and training day at Meningie on April 16, 2014.

The edit included a one-day workshop with the Ngarrindjeri media team to finish the 5 minute promotional video.

The video showcases the amazing work done at Meningie, including the planting of over 23,000 local native plants, the naturalization of the concrete drain into a wetland corridor, the interpretive trail with signage, seating and bird watching platform.

It features all stakeholders, the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority rangers and heritage team, members of the CLLMM Restoration Project, the Coorong District Council, the Meningie community and school, the Friends of Meningie group, and Ngarrindjeri elder Ellen Trevorrow.

The project was funded through The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Recovery Project is funded by the South Australian Government’s Murray Futures Program, and the Australian Government

Change Media Training Toolkit

2019 August - Adelaide SA

Our Digital Media Training Toolkit offers a range of tips and tricks we have created over the years in collaboration with communities across Australia between 2010 and 2013. It covers the key elements of digital media production, from development, production and editing to ethics, impact and evaluation.

The toolkit has a strong focus on Indigenous media training and features many Ngarrindjeri participants explaining their step by step training process, during workshops in regional South Australia.

Interview Tips with Owen

Using Storyboards

5-Point Story Plan

How to upload photos

Sony A1 HDV set up

Basic 5-point story example

Storyboarding with ComicLife

Organize Your Shoot - Equipment

How to upload example

Camera basics with Cyril

Camera basics with Chris

Camera tripod with Rita

Camera basics with Rita

Camera training with Craig

Camera training with Arnold

Camera training with Laurie

Camera basics with Junior

Camera basics with Junior

Camera basics with Jeremy

How to set up a Sony A1 camera

How to set up a tripod

How to upload footage

Uploading demo

Distribution - Burn To DVD

The toolkit was produced with assistance from the Australian Government Office for the Arts Indigenous Cultural Support and the Australia Council for the Arts Community Partnerships.

The project also received support from the South Australian Government through Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships.

Partners

Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Australian Refugee Association Inc

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Attorney General

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Tom Trevorrow tribute

Ngarrindjeri Elder Tom Trevorrow tribute - 2013 April - Coorong SA

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Media Release April 21, 2013
‘Tom Trevorrow passes away’
It is with considerable sadness that we announce the passing of Mr Thomas Trevorrow at the age of 58 years from a heart attack at his office at Camp Coorong, Meningie.

Mr Trevorrow was a strong and proud Ngarrindjeri man and a leading advocate for Aboriginal Rights in Australia. He worked throughout his life to better the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people and to support the advancement and recognition of the Ngarrindjeri People. With his wife Ellen, Tom worked for 30 years to develop program’s like the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association and Camp Coorong that fostered and supported Ngarrindjeri culture, arts and tradition, such as weaving. Tom shared with Ellen a commitment to enriching the life of the Ngarrindjeri community and ensured this focus was integral to the development of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He worked closely alongside his brother, Mr George Trevorrow and his Ngarrindjeri brother, Mr Mathew Rigney.

Tom Trevorrow was highly respected by all for his wisdom and insight into Aboriginal matters and a key leader in advancing Indigenous issues. His contribution to asserting the position of Aboriginal People and its proper relationship to Governments and non-Indigenous people was significant at state and national levels. His reputation as an Indigenous leader and educator was internationally recognised. He was a sought after speaker by political leaders at all levels of government, by universities, local councils and community organisations. Mr Trevorrow was highly respected for his spiritual and cultural life. He was a person of great honesty and personal integrity. He will be sadly missed by many people.

Tom Trevorrow believed strongly that the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people needed healing. He felt that the government did not consistently act in a meaningful or respectful manner in its dealings with Indigenous People. This was particularly the case when issues of power and control of government were being challenged by Indigenous People. Mr Trevorrow believed that the original promises of a just settlement in the 1836 Letters Patent for South Australia needed to be followed through by the State Government and that a treaty needed to be negotiated between Indigenous People and the State Government. He thought that a treaty would be a powerful healer of the pain felt by Aboriginal People in their daily lives and would provide justice to those who had passed without knowing it, and provide a proper platform for those Indigenous People living in the future.

ABOUT

Tom Trevorrow was a highly respected Ngarrindjeri man. He worked endlessly and tirelessly to advance Ngarrindjeri interests, whether this was as a group of people or for individual Ngarrindjeri people. He was Manager of Camp Coorong: Race Relations and Cultural Education Centre and Chair of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He had a deep cultural understanding of his lands and waters, he knew that the lands and waters need not to be disconnected from the Ngarrindjeri People and he fought hard with governments to make them better understand. He passes with the knowledge that the government does have a better understanding of these issues. He passes knowing his beloved Ngarrindjeri People are strong and have a good base upon which to build their relationships.

Tom Trevorrow will be sadly missed by many people but the work he did throughout his life will continue to influence people’s lives into the future. Our condolences to Tom Trevorrow’s extended family including his uncles and aunties, his brothers and sisters, his wife, Ellen and their children, Thomas, Frank, Bruce, Tanya, Joe, Luke and Hank and his grandchildren.

SCREENINGS:
The tribute was screened during the funeral ceremony as thousands mourners paid their respects in Meningie, South Australia.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
Unfortunately we were unable to attend the funeral and farewell ceremonies in Menigie, as we were already booked and paid to be in Melbourne that day – but we said our good-byes to Tom over hours and hours of editing on the tribute. Luke had requested us to produce a tribute video that would serve as a memento of his fathers work and achievements.

We feel privileged to have had the chance to work with Tom for so many years; from Jen’s work with him, Uncle Matt and Uncle George and other Elders on the Hindmarsh Island bridge campaigns in the nineties, to our digital media projects with him over the last 5 years. Beyond his amazing work as an advocate for Indigenous lands right and cross-cultural understanding, Tom also was a visionary leader who early on saw the power of digital media for the Ngarrindjeri communities. Tom, your voice will be thoroughly missed.

Jen, Carl, Johanis, Jesse and Felix from Change Media

Flow - Life Giving Lands and Waters

Flow - Life Giving Lands and Waters

Ngarrindjeri Media - 2013 February - Meningie SA

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The Change Media team partnered with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority in association with the SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources to produce a collaborative community-driven documentary about the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters and The Living Murray Initiative’s ICON sites during a four day capacity building workshop in Dec 2012 and edit process in Jan-Feb 2013 with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.

Our crew worked with 12 scientists selected by DEWNR and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, to address a series of issues about managing the River Murray, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong. Over 4 days we investigate the different western scientific and economic approaches, in comparison with Ngarrindjeri knowledge and cultural practice shared by their elders, and find out how both sides can work together for a better understanding of the fragile environment of the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters.

The film has already triggered some interesting responses, a researcher from Flinders University said the film sets a new benchmark for collaborations between Indigenous communities and government departments, especially on the contentious issue of water and land management and related cultural rights.
We also have been asked to co-present Flow at the World Indigenous Network conference in Darwin in May 2013.
The Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority will use the documentary also as part of their Native Title claim, as it provides supporting evidence of their ongoing cultural connection to their land and waters. If our work can make a contribution on this level, then may be not all is lost…

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Murray Darling Basin Authority

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Ngarrindjeri Projection Masterclass

2012 October - Hindmarsh Island SA

As a precursor to the Kumuwuki Big Wave festival, Craig Walsh and Country Arts SA held a projection masterclass in Goolwa with Ngarrindjeri participants. The masterclass explored the importance of context and space, and the meaning and context an artwork shares with its environment. Change Media were invited along to document the masterclass and develop a piece of digital media to be projected at the Regional Arts Australia festival.

Participants shared their experiences using the medium of projection art, and their experiences of person and place. The short documentary showcases the fun and adaptability of the medium, with a uniquely Ngarrindjeri perspective.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Country Arts SA

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport