Stone Bros.: seriously stoned

Activating social change and dismantling discrimination through film is tricky, but as Laine Lister discovered, a brilliant man, 187 joints and a demon dog can be quite persuasive.

The main thing we’d heard about Richard J. Frankland before speaking with him about his feature film directorial debut, was the Indigenous activism, links with the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and a string of documentaries including After Mabo, which he executive produced.

So it came as a surprise that his new film, the comedy Stone Bros., is, to say the least, very politically incorrect. Combining ‘stoner’ humour with young Indigenous people is a bold decision, considering the very real drug consumption problems Aboriginal communities face.