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50th Anniversary screening of restored print of JEDDA

Jedda (G)
1955
Dir: Charles Chauvel.
Cast: Robert Tudawali, Rosalie Kunoth, Betty Sutor, George Simpson-Lyttle.

Directed and produced by film industry figureheads Charles and Elsa Chauvel, Jedda was the first locally produced Australian feature film shot in colour, the first to star Indigenous Australians, the first to use magnetic sound recording equipment, and the first to go to the Cannes Film Festival.

Rosalie's Journey (MA)
2004, 30 mins
Director: Warwick Thornton.

Jedda will be screened with a half-hour documentary about the life of star Rosalie Kunoth-Monks.


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