Community Screening: Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire

Trocadero Projects and Environmental Films Australia have teamed up to bring an environmental cinema experience to Footscray! 

Grab a beanbag and a gelato for the Victorian premiere of Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire by Clancy Walker and Adam Nye, along with local short Outpicker, introduced by filmmaker Le Luo. 

Attendees will be welcome to take home a cutting or plant, generously donated by our visitors and Newport Lakes Native Nursery. It will also be the last day to catch four additional short films on the small screen. 

PROGRAM INFO

6.30pm	Doors open
7pm	Outpicker Le Luo | 2023 | 14 mins An award winning short, this fan favourite is a sweet and inspiring documentary following a queer Chinese immigrant as she finds a sense of belonging in the Australian landscape through litter-picking. With an introduction by Le Luo.
7.30pm	Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire Clancy Walker and Adam Nye | 2024 | 47 mins Yana Djamaga Ganji is an Indigenous-led documentary that follows the Walbunja Rangers back out onto Yuin Country following the 2019 fires, as they work with cultural fire to heal both the coast and their people. Walking alongside Elders and youngsters across luxury resorts to crown lands, this documentary follows the resurgence of cultural burning in Australia’s Southeast, addressing the ongoing mismanagement of Country and the misconceptions around cultural burning as an isolated practice. As out-of-control fires begin to spark again across the Australian continent, this documentary offers a well-overdue look into the holistic approach of First Nations’ land management practices, ultimately encouraging others to understand, and help reclaim, the healing benefits of walking good fire for all Australian. Directors’ Statement For Adam, a Walbunja man, this film is about sharing. Sharing the knowledge of the Elders and his community. Australia is at a crucial junction, already at crisis point, and people need to listen and take heed of what is being taught. For Clancy, a non-Indigenous man, this film is about learning. His experience of being on Country with the Walbunja community and being extended the privilege to learn (more than the film could ever hope to share) allowed the making of the film to grow organically and collaboratively; beginning at seed, bursting to screen.

 

ADMISSION
Tickets are FREE but capacity is limited.
People under the age of 18 are welcome to attend with a parent/guardian. Film ratings are TBC. 

ACCESSIBILITY 
Trocadero Projects is a wheelchair accessible venue (via Leeds St entrance) with an accessible bathroom. Limited accessible parking is generally available behind Trocadero Projects in Maddern Square. 

PARKING
Some restricted street parking is available nearby. The Little Saigon Plaza carpark is a 3 minute walk from Trocadero with reasonable rates.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS 

Adam Nye is a Walbunja/Yuin man passionate about returning Indigenous youth and communities to Country to simultaneously heal themselves and the land. He has over a decade of experience working directly on Country using traditional land management techniques, as well as coordinating events, programs and communities to engage more deeply with local Indigenous culture and knowledge. As co-director on Yana Djamaga Ganji, Adam brought the Walbunja community into tight collaboration with the production, provided invaluable local knowledge, and aligned the narrative with traditional storytelling.

Clancy Walker is documentary director and shooter/producer, and has worked on projects ranging from reality tv to feature film. Clancy has produced and directed projects across the world, and often collaborates as a cinematographer. Possessing a strong understanding and sense for character-driven stories, Clancy specialises in building narratives around human stories, as well as exploring the more-than-human world.

Le Luo is an emerging filmmaker and writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. She focuses on creating representation for queer CALD communities, specifically she is passionate to explore queer woman's experiences and belonging. Le is co-lead of a queer litter-picking group and PhD candidate in queer women' short films and web series on YouTube.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Trocadero is situated on the Traditional Lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respects to Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.


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