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Shifting Sands - Grace: Sugar cane
Title:
Shifting Sands - Grace: Sugar cane
NFSA ID
507912
Year
1998
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Grace is walking through the sugar cane fields. In flashback the two sisters, playing in the cane fields, place necklaces around each other’s necks, laughing with glee. Grace walks back through the sugar cane. Thunder clouds roll overhead. Loretta strokes the top of her mother’s coffin.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
Enoch’s drama about how Piety is mourned by a sister and a daughter – is a story about loss and belonging, identities interwoven through family histories.
Grace Synopsis
This short drama from Wesley Enoch depicts the emotional journey of an Indigenous woman back to Australia for the funeral of her sister.
Grace Curator's Notes
A drama from Wesley Enoch that depicts the emotional journey of an Indigenous woman (Justine Saunders) back to Australia for the funeral of her sister.
Notes by Romaine Moreton
Production company
Crow Films
Producer
Owen Johnston, Justin Malbon
Supervising producer
Graeme Isaac
Director
Wesley Enoch
Writer
Wesley Enoch
Cast
Binowee Bayles, Minya Bayles, Wayne Blair, Roxanne McDonald, Justine Saunders
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.