Screen Australia announces Indigenous teams for James Cook right of reply project

May 15, 2019 9:29

Screen Australia and the New Zealand Film Commission have announced the eight Indigenous teams who will take part in a joint anthology feature providing an Indigenous perspective on the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s maiden voyage in the Pacific.

Each team will write a create a chapter for Cook 2020: Our Right of Reply, entitled Ngā Pouwhenua in New Zealand, and will attend a residential lab at Shark Island Institute in Kangaroo Valley to develop the film.

Australian Mitchell Stanley and Bailey Mackey and Mia Henry-Teirney from New Zealand have been chosen as co-producers and will collaborate with the teams to develop their concepts and the overarching narrative.

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Hannah Blackiston

Hannah Blackiston was the deputy editor of Mumbrella. She worked with the company from March 2019 to November 2020.

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