WORLD PREMIERE - Adelaide Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - SXSW Sydney
Indigenous Identity • Colonial Violence • Historical Erasure • Museum Ethics • Racial Representation • Cultural Dignity • Intergenerational Trauma • Ancestral Memory • Indigenous Resilience • Historical Justice
Date of Completion: 2024 | Run Time: 80 minutes | Language: English with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Daniel King | Producers: Charlotte Seymour, Ben Pederick & Andrew Arbuthnot
HER NAME IS NANNY NELLIE is a powerful and poignant documentary that sheds light on the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia's history and the ongoing efforts to reclaim their identity and dignity. In 1925, the Australian Museum commissioned three statues depicting Aboriginal individuals - a child, a man, and a woman - displayed anonymously as relics of a "dying race." The woman was Nellie Walker, great-grandmother of Irene Ridgeway, who is now on a mission to uncover Nellie’s story.
FESTIVALS
Adelaide Film Festival (World Premiere)
SXSW Sydney