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World Premiere
A bridge divided a state. The Ngarrindjeri women at its heart reclaim the story.
Few events have exposed the fault lines of modern South Australia as profoundly as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair. Combining extraordinary character interviews with richly textured archival footage from the 1980s and 1990s, KUMARANGK: Sacred Women’s Business plunges back into the political frenzy that engulfed the state, as Ngarrindjeri women’s sacred knowledge collided with powerful development interests, forcing the courts to grapple with questions they were never designed to answer. Revealing Kumarangk as a living place where birth, burial and ceremony are inseparable, the film restores humanity to a conflict too often reduced to politics and headlines, returning this defining chapter of South Australian history to the women who lived it.
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Film Credits
Director: Tracey Rigney
Language: English and Ngarrindjeri with English subtitles.
Producer: Joshua Trevorrow and Carolyn Johnson
Cinematographer: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Editor: Tania Nehme and Andrea Lang
Music: Amanda Brown and Jerome Oosting
Film Source: Bonsai Films
Genre: Activism, Documentary, First Nations, Politics and Women
Image credit: Colleen Raven Strangways
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