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Title No Way To Forget
Released 1996
Production Year 1996
Director Richard Frankland
Comments No Way to Forget is part of the 'From Sand To Celluloid' collection of short Indigenous films.

The collection is produced in association with the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission and S.B.S Independent.

No Way To Forget was awarded best new Director at the St. Kilda Film Festival; Official Selection in UnCertain Regard at Canne International Film Festival; received four 1996 Australian Film Institute Award nominations taking out two awards - Best Non-feature Fiction Film and Best Sound in an Non-feature Fiction Film; selected for the screening at the 41st Asia-Pacific Film Festival, 1996; selected in the Film Critics Circle Award of Australia; selected Cinema des Antipodes in France, 1996; selected for screening in Goteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 1997; and, nominated for an Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) award, 1997.
Synopsis Chilling memories of young, frightened Aboriginal men who have been incarcerated under white law, the deaths of these men in custody and the pain and suffering of families and communities continue to haunt Shane Francis long after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
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