Our Wellbeing Our Way (Melbourne Documentary Film Festival) - Review

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Mon 01 Jul 2024 - Wed 31 Jul 2024

Our Wellbeing Our Way is a 7 min 2024 'short' at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival which runs for the whole month of July (1-31) online, and In-Cinema from 17-31 July 2024. Check the website for some eye-opening, educational, and inspiring documentaries on offer; covering a range of subjects. All documentaries are geo-blocked to Australia! Once a doco is unlocked, you have 48 hours to complete your viewing (after you press play). If you would like to know more about the streaming platform, please see the Eventive FAQ page.

Written, directed, and produced by Luisa Mitchell, and co-directed and animated by Radheya Jegatheva, this animated short is narrated by Elders Bruce Denny and Lynette Narkle. It encapsulates the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in a condensed but intelligent way that alludes to going far deeper than what you see on the surface. It tells the story of how colonisation impacted the social and emotional wellbeing of our First Nations People - resulting in intergenerational trauma. This is a community that is working at healing itself, despite horrendous injustices, and disadvantages suffered; through connections to Country, the emotional, the spiritual and the physical. Cleverly produced, it keeps it light and positive and is definitely a quick 7-minute education session about our First Nations People, that covers a lot of ground in those short minutes.



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