BOLLYWOOD DREAMING

Photo thanks to:
http://www.tandanya.com.au/ed10/message-sticks-2008-indigenous-film-festival/

I recently saw this cute little documentary about an Aboriginal African-American teenager – Jedda Rae Hill from Broome, Western Australia. Jedda is into boxing, skating and dreams about being a Bollywood star.

This is a must watch for all Australians. The film has successfully toured the short film circuit but it needs to be seen more by South Asian Australian communities who are normally at a loss for not connecting with Aboriginal peoples and cultures.

Director: Cornel Ozies
Producer: Dot West
Writer: Mitch Torres
Duration: 7mins
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2007


Here is a link to the film on youtube
Enjoy!!!


BOLLY WOOD – The name given to India’s hugely successful Hindi speaking film industry. Some time wrongly quoted to include other film industries in India as well. India has a thriving Tamil, Telungu, Bengali, Malayalam and other flilm industries with an international and domestic reach.

DREAMING/DREAM TIME - To put it simplistically, Dreamtime is Aboriginal Australians contemporaneous worldview.
“There are at least four aspects to Dreamtime – The beginning of all things; the life and influence of the ancestors; the way of life and death; and sources of power in life.
Dreamtime includes all of these four facets at the same time, being a condition beyond time and space as known in everyday life. The aborigines call it the ‘all-at-once’ time instead of the ‘one-thing-after-another’ time.”

http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/australian-aborigine-dream-beliefs/