In 2019 the NFSA hosted a screening of Douglas Watkin’s insightful documentary Ella, about the first Indigenous dancer with the Australian Ballet – Wiradjuri woman, Ella Havelka.
Following the screening Douglas was joined on stage in a conversation with Ella Havelka, hosted by NFSA Program Manager Karina Libbey.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.