Advance Screening - Charlie's Country

Special event for NAIDOC Week:

NAIDOC Week celebrations are held around the country each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is an opportunity to recognise the contributions that Indigenous Australians make to our country and our society.

As a special event for NAIDOC Week, Engineers Without Borders Victoria and Young Engineers Australia are holding an exclusive advance screening of Charlie’s Country, ahead of the official Australian release date. This critically acclaimed film stars David Gulpilil, who won a Best Actor Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his performance.

Funds raised will go towards EWB and its work with the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal community in North East Victoria.

Event Details
2:00 pm Event start - Food and drinks.
3.00 pm Introductory Talk
3:20 pm Charlie's Country Movie Screening
Price: Includes Food & Drink

Charlie’s Country
Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie’s Country stars David Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. The government’s intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.