I’m pleased to share that NITV has renewed the broadcast licensing for the film for the next 3 years. This means that BLACKBIRD is available to screen online for free in Australia until 2027. View the film on SBS OnDemand here. If you’re outside of Australia, click through here. More information about BLACKBIRD film project here.
In October 2023, I was fortunate to be able to travel to the lands of the Yuwibara people, Mackay, Queensland for the Brown Sugar Festival. The event marked “the 160th anniversary since the first South Sea Islander people were brought to Queensland to work in the sugar and cotton industries.” I had the honour of …
BLACKBIRD (13 mins, PG) is now available to watch online for free in Australia via the SBS OnDemand platform until 2024. Stream on your computer or phone: CLICK HERE BLACKBIRD screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival; imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto 2016; the Pasifika Film Festival, Sydney 2016, where it picked up …
BLACKBIRD is an award-winning short narrative film inspired by the history of Australia’s sugar slaves, written and directed by Australian-Solomon Islander filmmaker Amie Batalibasi. To watch BLACKBIRD via online streaming (for private viewing) or DVD (for educational use, community screenings & a variety of uses) read below. We invite you to share viewing links with …
BLACKBIRD (13 mins, PG) is now available to screen online for free for those in Australia, via the SBS OnDemand platform. Watch on your computer or phone HERE (UPDATE: available until June 2024) BLACKBIRD (13mins, PG) tells the story of Solomon Islander siblings, Rosa & Kiko, who were kidnapped from their island home to work on …
We’re delighted to announce that ABC International has acquired broadcast rights for BLACKBIRD to screen throughout the Asia Pacific region, free to air via their ABC international platform. This is particularly exciting because it means that those throughout the Asia Pacific region in over 40 countries, will have the opportunity to access to our short film. …
BLACKBIRD to Broadcast in Asia Pacific Region via ABC Australia 2020
It was such a joy to bring BLACKBIRD to the Berlinale – a career highlight in fact. This year the Berlinale NATIVe programme focused on films from Pasifika. I thank the Berlinale for highlighting the Pacific Island region and for valuing our stories. Meeting the other filmmakers, participating in the panels, sharing stories – having a …
I was invited to speak at an event centred around climate change and filmmaking – the intersection of this environmental issue, science and the medium of film and how this crossover can have an impact. It was an honour to be welcomed to this conversation as part of the Berlinale NATIVe program. We watched short narrative films about climate change by students, engaged …
In February, our short film DOCKED had it’s Melbourne premiere at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival. Leading up to the festival, actor Nyawuda Chuol and I were very grateful to do a few national newspaper interviews and also (for the first time) have our short film reviewed by film critics. Interviews: THE AGE (pictured above) …
BLACKBIRD has been invited to screen at the 69th Berlinale International Film Festival in February 2019 as part of the Berlinale NATIVe Program. It’s an honour for our film and this story to be recognised at an international festival of this calibre especially as it’s part of a program focusing on indigenous storytelling in the Pacific region. BLACKBIRD is one of 16 films selected. …
BLACKBIRD to Screen at Berlinale International Film Festival
After last year’s NITV national screening debut, BLACKBIRD (13 mins, PG) is now available to screen online for free for those in Australia, via the SBS OnDemand platform. Watch on your computer or phone until [EDIT: 17 January 2019] previous showing 9 December 2018. UPDATE: If you missed this date, you can watch anytime: CLICK …
imagineNATIVE AWARD In October 2018, I was very surprised to receive a phone call from Canada with news that our short 360VR documentary ‘AEASI – as far as the eye can see above the sea’ received the Best Digital Work award at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. My family and I made this film together …