
Island Home Country
2008•52 min•
★5.0
DocumentaryHistory
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.
Cast & Crew

Jeni Thornley
Narrator

Rinki Bhattacharya
Self

Dur-e Dara
Self

Jim Everett
Self

Phyllis Pitchford
Self

Arundhati Roy
Self

Julie Janson
Self

Julie Gough
Self

Clive Atkinson
Self

Jan Thornley
Self

DirectorJeni Thornley
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