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TAGGED: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers
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Deborah Mailman and Cathy Freeman in Going Bush: Nabarlek

In 2006, two of the country's best-known and loved personalities, actor Deborah Mailman and Olympian Cathy Freeman, set out to meet remote Aboriginal communities from Broo

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Deep Dive: Q&A with Ablaze co-directors Tiriki Onus and Alec Morgan

Listen to the NFSA's Karina Libbey in conversation with Ablaze co-directors Tiriki Onus and Alec Morgan.

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Deep Dive: Q&A with Ablaze co-directors Tiriki Onus and Alec Morgan

In February 2022, the NFSA presented the documentary Ablaze (2021) in Arc cinema.

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Radiance: Behind the scenes – Deborah Mailman and Warwick Thornton

Behind the scenes of the Rachel Perkins film Radiance (1998).

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Deborah Mailman in Mystery Road

Deborah Mailman had a supporting role in season 1 of the limited TV series Mystery Road starring Aaron Pedersen and Judy Davis, a spin-off from Ivan Sen's films Mystery Road (2013

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Radiance: True Love

Mae (Trisha Morton-Thomas) is wearing her mother’s wedding dress. Nona (Deborah Mailman) wants to bottle the ashes so they can take them to the island to scatter.

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Deborah Mailman in The Sapphires: Yellow bird

This early scene in The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, 2012), introduces us to 3 of the main characters in the film – Gail (Deborah Mailman), Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) and Julie (Jessica Mauboy),

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Deborah Mailman on the set of The Sapphires

This short interview excerpt with Deborah Mailman takes place on the set of The Sapphires, a 2012 film directed by Wayne Blair based on the true story of an Aboriginal

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Deborah Mailman in The Sapphires: Stolen children

This clip from The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, 2012) features a key moment in the film where we discover the reason behind the fraught relationship between Gail (Deborah Mailman) and her cousi

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Radiance: Deborah Mailman re-enacts Madama Butterfly

In this scene from Radiance (1998), Nona (Deborah Mailman) plays a recording of her famous opera-singer sister Cressy (Rachael Maza) singing 'Un bel dì, vedremo' from Puccini's Madama