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Shifting Sands - Promise: Big woman things
Title:
Shifting Sands - Promise: Big woman things
NFSA ID
507912
Year
1997
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
A young woman is mixing flour. Voice-over narration by her grandmother Gilladi (Sylvia Clarke) says her granddaughter Ngyamia (Ali Torres) asked her for this story. Flashback; a young Gilladi (Sabrina Sabaan) is given to her aunty (Annie Watson), who did not have children, to prepare her for her promise marriage.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
Promise, a short drama from Mitch Torres, is presented as a yarn in the kitchen between a grandmother and her granddaughter. The nanna tells her granddaughter the story of her marriage, a promise marriage that saw her go to live with her aunty to be prepared for marriage. Essentially, a love story that is told in the absence of the love interest – grandfather – but resonates as one of those moments that are a cherished memory.
Promise Synopsis
A short drama about a grandmother’s tale of her promise marriage.
Notes by Romaine Moreton
Production company
Core Films
Producer
Pauline Clague
Supervising producers
Trevor Graham, Pauline Clague
Director
Mitch Torres
Writer
Mitch Torres
Commisioning editor, SBSi
Bridget Ikin
Acknowledgements
Produced with the assistance of the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission
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.