Yurlu | Country – Q&A Screening

Yurlu | Country – Q&A Screening

Saturday, November 15 @ 3:00pm

Followed by a live and in-person Q&A with guests Director/Producer Yaara Bou Melhem, Cinematographer Tom Bannigan, Composer Helena Czajka, Sound Supervisor Sam Hayward MPSE and Co-Producer James Saunders, and it will be moderated by Jan Fran (ABC/SBS).

Wittenoom in Western Australia's Pilbara region is home to the largest contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere, with an exclusion zone almost twice the size of that of Chernobyl.

Within this is the ancestral country of Maitland Parker, a Banjima Elder who dedicated his life to protecting Country and fighting to save his people from government inaction, corporate greed and cultural extinction.

Come and experience YURLU | COUNTRY, followed by a Q&A with Director/Producer Yaara Bou Melhem, Cinematographer Tom Bannigan, Composer Helena Czajka, Sound Supervisor Sam Hayward MPSE and Co-Producer James Saunders, and it will be moderated by Jan Fran (ABC/SBS).