The Bowraville Murders has been selected as a finalist in the Documentary Australia Foundation Award at the Sydney Film Festival.
The feature-length documentary, a co-production between Mint Pictures and Jumping Dog Productions, opens in cinemas (which are not in lockdown) today (September 2). To watch the film in a cinema click here.
For those people in lockdown states, you can join a virtual screening this Saturday evening (September 4) at 7.30pm, followed by a live Q&A between Allan Clarke, the director, and Stan Grant, the film’s indigenous and editorial consultant.
The film follows the David v Goliath 30-year battle for justice waged by the families of three Aboriginal children, all from the same street in a tiny community in northern NSW, who all disappeared within five months of each other in 1990/91. The bodies of Clinton Speedy-Duroux and Evelyn Greenup were found on a dirt track outside of town. The clothes of Colleen Walker-Craig were found dumped in a nearby river.
There has only ever been one suspect, who has been acquitted twice on two separate murder charges and maintains his innocence. All three cases have never been heard together before the same court.
The film was commissioned by SBS, financed by Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW and Documentary Australia Foundation.
It will screen on SBS on September 26 at 8.30pm.
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