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Double Trouble: Sister - Episode 1

2007

Double Trouble: Sister - Episode 1

2007

  • NFSA IDJ6HQR9BQ
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • Duration23 mins, 14 secs
  • GenresIndigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject, Children, Comedy, Drama
  • Year2007
  • WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons

Yuma (Cassandra Glenn) and her father (Myles Pollard) have arrived in Alice Springs. Walking the streets, people treat Yuma with familiarity. Aaron (Tyrone Wallace) leads her to the local basketball court where the other young people hang out. There she meets her sister (Christine Glenn). Summary by Romaine Moreton.

  • WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons

Yuma (Cassandra Glenn) and her father (Myles Pollard) have arrived in Alice Springs. Walking the streets, people treat Yuma with familiarity. Aaron (Tyrone Wallace) leads her to the local basketball court where the other young people hang out. There she meets her sister (Christine Glenn). Summary by Romaine Moreton.

  • Production company
    CAAMA Productions
    Producers
    Rachel Clements, Terry Jennings
    Executive Producers
    Jo Horsburgh, Priscilla Collins (AKA Cilla Collins), Ron Saunders
    Directors
    Wayne Blair, Richard J Frankland
    Writer
    David Ogilvy
    Acknowledgements
    Produced with the assistance of the Nine Network, the Disney Channel Australia, the Film Finance Corporation Australia, the New South Wales Film and Television Office and the Northern Territory Film Office
  • Double Trouble is in the vein of Parent Trap (1961, starring Hayley Mills, and remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan), but with an Australian spin. It is an entertaining children’s program that offers insights into the lives of young people living in the Alice.

    Double Trouble synopsis

    Double Trouble is about twin Indigenous girls, both born in Alice Springs but separated at birth and unaware of each other’s existence. The twins accidentally cross paths and decide to swap places.

    In this, the opening episode of Double Trouble, we are introduced to the family of Yuma (Cassandra Glenn), a young Indigenous woman who lives in the city. Yuma lives with her father Henry (Myles Pollard), brother Heath (James Fraser) and stepmother Roz (Jen Apostolou). Yuma asks her father, who is an art dealer, to take her with him on his trip to Alice Springs, where she was born. It is in Alice Springs that Yuma meets her twin sister Kyanna (Christine Glenn), and quickly the twins concoct a plan that sends them on an adventure.

    Notes by Romaine Moreton

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