The Bowraville Murders, a feature-length documentary about the cold cases of three Aboriginal children who disappeared 30 years ago, will screen at an Academy Awards-qualifying festival in New Zealand.
The documentary, a co-production between Mint Pictures and Jumping Dog Productions, will screen at the 17th edition of Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival.
The festival will be held in Auckland, Wellington, and Online in June 2022. The feature documentary’s Kiwi premiere will open on June 2.
Directed by Allan Clarke, it won the Special Jury award at the FIFO international film festival in Tahiti in February.
It was nominated in two categories for the 2021 AACTA awards and was a finalist in the 2022 AIDC awards.
The documentary was released in cinemas in 2021 and aired on SBS as part of its ‘Australia Uncovered’ strand. It also screened at the 2021 Sydney Film Festival.
The film was financed by SBS, Screen Australia and Screen NSW, as well as a crowd funding campaign via the Documentary Australia Foundation. Stefan Moore and Dan Goldberg produced and wrote the doco; Adam Kay and Susan Lambert were executive producers; Mark Middis was editor and Anna Cater co-producer.
