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Nan and a Whole Lot of Trouble

2015

Nan and a Whole Lot of Trouble

2015

  • NFSA IDA6GJQ644
  • TypeFilm
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormShort
  • Year2015
  • WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons

Nan, of Aboriginal Australian and Irish descent, has kept a photo album of dead family members since the passing of her mother many years ago. Every time a family member dies, Nan and her granddaughter Fuzzy take a photo of the dead and place it in the album.

Nan meets trouble every time a new photo is taken. Her younger sister Aunty Min believes this morbid European tradition is culturally inappropriate. But in the end, all that trouble Nan has come to blows over may bring the family together.

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

Nan, of Aboriginal Australian and Irish descent, has kept a photo album of dead family members since the passing of her mother many years ago. Every time a family member dies, Nan and her granddaughter Fuzzy take a photo of the dead and place it in the album.

Nan meets trouble every time a new photo is taken. Her younger sister Aunty Min believes this morbid European tradition is culturally inappropriate. But in the end, all that trouble Nan has come to blows over may bring the family together.

Courtesy of
Magpie Pictures
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  • Director
    Dena Curtis
    Producer
    Lois Randall
    Art Director and Production Designer
    Tony Campbell
    Cinematographer
    Anna Howard
    Editor
    Tania Nehme
    Scriptwriter
    Sue McPherson
    Cast
    Amba-Rose Atkinson, Pamela Young, Noeleen Shearer
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