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IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS

By Maya NEWELL

CLOSER PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2019

Ten-year-old Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages. Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ in school. As he travels perilously close to incarceration, his family fight to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education lest he becomes another statistic.

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Warsaw FF 2019
Documentary Competition
HotDocs 2019
Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Sydney Film Festival 2019
AFI DOCS 2019
DocNYC 2019
Durban Film Festival 2019
Cinefest OZ 2019
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Family, Documentary
    • Countries
    • AUSTRALIA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Maya NEWELL
    • Producer(s)
    • Sophie HYDE (Closer Productions), Rachel Naninaaq EDWARDSON, Larissa BEHRENDT, Maya NEWELL
    • Synopsis
    • Dujuan is a 10-year-old Arrernte boy from Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in Australia. Full of life and exuberance, he learns, with the support of his loving mother and grandmother, to hunt, speak two Indigenous languages and become a healer. Dujuan is politically astute and a leader in the making. But within the westernised school system, his strength and intellect go unnoticed and the colonial approaches to education threaten him with failing grades. At the time of filming, 100% of the youth in Alice Springs detention centres were Aboriginal, and throughout the film it becomes increasingly clear that the system is set up to work against young boys like Dujuan. This powerful film, made in collaboration with Dujuan's family, is an emotional journey through the fight to mend an educational schism between traditional culture and colonial ideas and solidify a future for the youth.
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