KWATYE URREWE (2023)
kwatye urrewe is a collaboration between GARUWA and Running Water Community Press, tracing the stories of five poets:
Be transported to the heart of the desert with Marie Elena Ellis (Arrernte and Warlpiri) as she sings to the beautiful, ancient Country where she grew up in Inteye Arrkwe (Ross River).
Join Theresa Penangke Alice (Arrernte) to bathe in the beauty of Urremerne and dance with the wind to heal the land on Eastern Arrernte Country.
Listen to the landscape in an ode to the creeks, rivers and waterholes with Tisha Perrurle Carter (Anmatjere) of her homelands at Petyale on Anmatjere Country.
Meet Maureen Nampijinpa O’Keefe as she longs for her Mother’s lost songs on her great, great, grandmother’s homelands at Karlu Karlu on Kaytetye Country.
And, walk with the grandsons of late author Frank Byrne, Stanley and Desmond honour their ancestors at Twetye block, Iwupataka on Arrernte Country.
Storytellers: Marie Elena Ellis (Arrernte and Warlpiri), Theresa Penangke Alice (Arrernte), Tisha Perrurle Carter (Anmatjere), Maureen Nampijinpa O’Keefe (Kaytetye and Warlpiri), Desmond Byrne (Gooniyandi and Arrernte) and Stanley Byrne (Gooniyandi and Arrernte)
Director & Executive Producer Kieran Mpetyana Satour (Gurindji/Malngin, Pertame Arrernte and Worimi)
Executive Producer Ramona Telecican
Producer Jamie Lee Bolger (Noonuccal)
Associate Producer Olivia Nigro
Director of Photography Ryan Andrew Lee
Editor Rah Dakota
Music Composer Laughton Kora (Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Pūkeko)
Sound Recordist Nic Carson
Translations Theresa Penangke Alice (Arrernte)
Illustrations Oumoula Mckenzie (Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara, Warumungu and Warlmanpa)
Communications Simone Mugavin
Created by GARUWA and Running Water Community Press
Supported by the Australian Cultural Fund, Blak & Bright, The Readings Foundation and Northern Territory Government Community Benefits Fund
Filmed on the lands of the Arrernte, Anmatjere and Kaytetye Peoples in the Northern Territory.
Awards
Blak&Bright Festival, Naarm/Melbourne
Badnam Film Festival Bangalore, India
ST Kilda Film Fesitval
Ethnokino
Atlas Cinema Film Festival London