Premiere of Yarning Up 2

The Territory created and produced documentary series Yarning Up 2 will premiere on ABC Television this Sunday, 4 April 2010.

 

The Northern Territory Film Office (NTFO) provided $80,000 in funding towards Yarning Up 2, and NTFO Director Penelope McDonald said she expects Yarning Up 2 to be as well received by audiences as the first series.

 

“As a home grown documentary series, Yarning Up has helped to raise the profile of the Northern Territory film industry on a national and international level,” Ms McDonald said.

 

“The Territory is looked to by the rest of Australia, and the world, as the home of unique Indigenous cultures and stories and the Yarning Up series is one way of getting some of these stories out to the world.”

 

Produced by the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcast Association (TEABBA) in association with NTFO, Screen Australia, ABC Television, Department of Education and Training (DET) and National Indigenous Television (NITV), Yarning Up 2 creates screen industry development and employment outcomes in remote Indigenous communities.

 

“The Yarning Up series injected more than $100 000 into the Territory economy as a result of the production and provided employment opportunities for 80 Territorians including established Territory professionals, producer Penny Smallacombe, director/mentor Steven McGregor, sound recordist David Tranter and editor Dena Curtis,” she said.

 

An initiative of the NTFO, Yarning Up 2 features four, five minute documentaries that were filmed in remote Top End communities.

 

The four short documentaries produced as part of Yarning Up 2 are:

·   Nundhirribala’s Dream by Ella Geia of Numbulwar

·   One Leader, Ten Wives by Malcolm Wilson of Milikapiti

·   The Barngurnn Marrangu Story by Queenie and Marie Brennan of Barunga

·   The Boss for his Country by Revonna Urban of Beswick

 

The documentaries from the second series have screened at the Pacific International Documentary Film Festival, Tahiti, the Festival Du Cinema de Paris, Imaginative Film Festival, Canada, Human Rights Film Festival, Melbourne, The Byron Bay International Festival, India Film Festival, The Dreaming Festival, Queensland and the Sami Film Festival in Finland.

 

Ms McDonald said Yarning Up provides opportunities for Indigenous writers and directors in communities to develop their skills in making documentaries, and provides a potential pathway to future employment.

 

Yarning Up 2 will premiere on ABC TV’s Message Stick at 1.30pm on Sunday, 4 April 2010.

The Territory created and produced documentary series Yarning Up 2 will premiere on ABC Television this Sunday, 4 April 2010.

 

The Northern Territory Film Office (NTFO) provided $80,000 in funding towards Yarning Up 2, and NTFO Director Penelope McDonald said she expects Yarning Up 2 to be as well received by audiences as the first series.

 

“As a home grown documentary series, Yarning Up has helped to raise the profile of the Northern Territory film industry on a national and international level,” Ms McDonald said.

 

“The Territory is looked to by the rest of Australia, and the world, as the home of unique Indigenous cultures and stories and the Yarning Up series is one way of getting some of these stories out to the world.”

 

Produced by the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcast Association (TEABBA) in association with NTFO, Screen Australia, ABC Television, Department of Education and Training (DET) and National Indigenous Television (NITV), Yarning Up 2 creates screen industry development and employment outcomes in remote Indigenous communities.

 

“The Yarning Up series injected more than $100 000 into the Territory economy as a result of the production and provided employment opportunities for 80 Territorians including established Territory professionals, producer Penny Smallacombe, director/mentor Steven McGregor, sound recordist David Tranter and editor Dena Curtis,” she said.

 

An initiative of the NTFO, Yarning Up 2 features four, five minute documentaries that were filmed in remote Top End communities.

 

The four short documentaries produced as part of Yarning Up 2 are:

·   Nundhirribala’s Dream by Ella Geia of Numbulwar

·   One Leader, Ten Wives by Malcolm Wilson of Milikapiti

·   The Barngurnn Marrangu Story by Queenie and Marie Brennan of Barunga

·   The Boss for his Country by Revonna Urban of Beswick

 

The documentaries from the second series have screened at the Pacific International Documentary Film Festival, Tahiti, the Festival Du Cinema de Paris, Imaginative Film Festival, Canada, Human Rights Film Festival, Melbourne, The Byron Bay International Festival, India Film Festival, The Dreaming Festival, Queensland and the Sami Film Festival in Finland.

 

Ms McDonald said Yarning Up provides opportunities for Indigenous writers and directors in communities to develop their skills in making documentaries, and provides a potential pathway to future employment.

 

Yarning Up 2 will premiere on ABC TV’s Message Stick at 1.30pm on Sunday, 4 April 2010.