Shifting Sands - Promise: Big woman things
1997
Shifting Sands - Promise: Big woman things
1997
- NFSA ID9VESVAR9
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormSeries
- GenresIndigenous-produced, Indigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1997
- 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
- 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
- NFSA ID9VESVAR9
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormSeries
- GenresIndigenous-produced, Indigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1997
- Production companyCore FilmsProducerPauline ClagueSupervising producersTrevor Graham, Pauline ClagueDirectorMitch TorresWriterMitch TorresCommisioning editor, SBSiBridget IkinAcknowledgementsProduced with the assistance of the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission
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
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