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Title RADIANCE
Copyright Title Radiance
Released 1998
Production Year 1998
Director Rachel Perkins
Comments Released as part of the 1998 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Financed by the AFI , SBS Independent, The NSW Film & Television Office , The Premium Movie Partnership & private investors.

According to Amanda Meade in 'Shifting Visions', The Australian, Monday, June 1998, Radiance is the third feature to be made by an Aborigine - and only the second to get a theatrical release.
(Natasha)
Synopsis According to Andrew Myers , "Radiance" is the first commercially oriented Australian film to be directed by an Aboriginal women and to feature three Aboriginal actors in the lead roles". The film insightfully delves into the lives of three women who come together as a result of their "witch" mother's funeral. The themes are universal and through their individual and often humourous sense of grief they begin to come to terms with their identity. The familial connections lying deeper than anyone could have ever imagined. Beautifully photographed in both a studio and a beachouse in Agnes Waters, the sisters appear to be at once trapped yet free in a vast and desolate beach. The lid is lifted on sealed fears that they thought could be safely contained beneath the house. Like petrol they explode with painful truths, revealed to Nona against the radiant embers of their family home. The social and political context are backdrops to the intense and often volatile relationships that exist between the three sisters. Each character is both complex and contemporary , a combination of youth , vanity and martydom. Yet what comes out of their painful experiences is a sense of love and forgiveness , both of themselves and for each other.
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