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Rachel Perkins is an Australian film maker who has specialised in Indigenous film, television and documentary production for the last 12 years. An Arrernte woman from the Central Desert region east of Alice Springs , she commenced her career working with Imparja Television, an Aboriginal owned TV Station where she produced and directed indigenous language and current affairs programming.
In 1991, Rachel moved to Sydney and started working with SBS Television as the Executive Producer of the Aboriginal Television Unit. Through SBS she produced and directed the four part, one hour documentary series, BLOOD BROTHERS which included Broken English ( The Conviction of Max Stuart ), Jardiwarnpa ( The Fire Ceremony ) , Freedom Ride ( The political activism of her father , Charlie Perkins ) and "From Little Things Big Things Grow" ( a musical biography of Kev Carmody.)
In 1993 she established her own production company BLACKFELLA FILMS which focuses on innovative films by Indigenous people. The company's first project was FROM SPIRIT TO SPIRIT, which included "Quest for Country" a personal account of a man's return to the mission , "Mungo Lady" about the exhumed remains back to a sacred site , and "From the Bush" a musical partnership of white and bacl musicians. Blackfella Films has also produced a number of corporate productions for Quantas, produced
multi-media installations and facilitated film festivals in Sydney and Berlin. In 1995 she won a scholarship to study producing at AFTRS and there she directed a short film for Channel Four films and worked as a consultant on the "Sand to Celluloid" compilation , producing "Pay Back" who pays for his sins through the ghosts of his elders once released from a white legal incarceration.
In 1996 she was appointed Executive Producer of the Indigenous Programmin Unit at the ABC where she produced "Songlines" , a black music show and developed the National Indigenous Documentary Fund. She took time off to direct her first feature "Radiance" , based on the play by Lious Nowra which has been nominated for 6 AFI Awards and was voted as the favourite at both the Sydney and the Melbourne Film Festivals.
As well as being extremely prolific and talented , after interviewing her she was refreshingly unpretencious , with a keen sense of humour and was thankfully extremely supportive.
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| newspaper - Blood Brothers: Aboriginality in the 90's Filmnews. 01-07-1993. pp.3-4 |
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Ned Lander
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| The responses touches on the research that went into the productions , particularly with "Broken English" , it also brings out the notion of the diversity an...[full record]
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| newspaper - Bennett's kiss of death Courier-Mail, Courier-Mail. 15-07-1998. p.42 |
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Des Partridge
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| Discusses the 19 feature films which have been nominated for the 1998 Australian Film Institute awards and details of the award categories.
Discusses the re...[full record]
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| newspaper - Black films burst with radiance The Weekend Australian. 13-06-1998. p.12 |
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Lynden Barber
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| The articel refers to Rachel's past work in documentary with the ABC TV's indigenous program unit how the film was inspired. "Radiance" has been adpapted fro...[full record]
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| newspaper - Blood Brothers: Aboriginality in the 90's Filmnews. 01-07-1993. pp.3-4 |
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Ned Lander
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| The responses touches on the research that went into the productions , particularly with "Broken English" , it also brings out the notion of the diversity an...[full record]
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| newspaper - Change for Charlie's girl The West Australian. 08-08-1997. p.17 |
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Vicky Roach
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| Gives a short brief on the film is interesting as it traces some of the career highlights and some of the advantages / disadvantages of being Charlie Perkin...[full record]
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| newspaper - Family feuding focus of first feature The Sydney Morning Herald. 02-08-1997. p.16 |
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Lauren Martin
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| The article highlights the universal theme of family, a pivotal theme throughout "Radiance". It's about Rachel making "black films" and being a pathfinder , ...[full record]
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| newspaper - Film Reviews Variety Movie Magazine. p.100 |
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David Rooney
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| Presents the film as "touching on indigenous questions regarding displacement , heritage , land and belonging all without becoming an agenda movie or sacrifi...[full record]
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| newspaper - Graduate compared to young Campion The Sydney Morning Herald. 04-05-1998. p.Unknown |
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Lauren Martin
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| Discusses the awards received by Indigenous filmmaker, Iven Sen and the comparisions which have been made between Sen's films and the early works of Jane Cam...[full record]
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| newspaper - Progress of Radiance has director aglow Courier-Mail. 28-07-1997. p.3 |
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Glenis Green
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| A positive spin on the production lead up to the film , giving some history on Rachel Perkins as Executive Director of SBS Indigenous Film Progamming Unit an...[full record]
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| newspaper - Proving she Cannes do The Australian. 08-06-1998. p.17 |
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| Rachel Perkins has locked sales of the film "Radiance" to Britain's Channel Four following the showing of the film in Cannes. She will be working as producer...[full record]
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| newspaper - Radiance Screen International, Screen Director "Newsletter of the Australian Screen Directors Association". p.10 |
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| The review is insightful, it points to sisters and the complexities of female sibling rivalry using comparisons with other Australian films like "The Last Da...[full record]
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| newspaper - Radiant Beginning The Sydney Morning Herald. 30-03-1998 |
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| The film "Radiance" set to launch before the international buyers at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It was invited to screen at the Sundance Film Festival bu...[full record]
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| newspaper - Tackling The Tough Issues Adelaide Advertiser. 19-05-1998. p.50 |
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| book - Well I Heard It On The Radio And I Saw It On The Television An essay for the Australian Film Commission on the politics of filmmaking by and about Abor . 00-00-1993 |
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Marcia Langton
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| In the first section of her essay, Langton discusses the differences between settled and remote, traditional and contemporary Aboriginal communities and how ...[full record]
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