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Welcome to this year’s film festival. It is truly an honour, for me today, to be speaking on the behalf of the Gold Coast film society Australia; and to be elected to introduce one of the many great films in the film festival (insert film here). The film represents the marginalised group of indigenous Australians (more info) this subject is very close to my heart as growing up my best friend was an indigenous Australian she was stereotyped and marginalised within our old school grounds. This group although have access to education and work they are still (insert fact here aboriginals are in 15 percent of the world's poor. Indigenous people continue to be depicted among the poorest and the illiterate.
When visiting Alice Springs last year, I saw their amazing paintings and artwork and the beautiful land, I also saw homeless and starving aboriginals. The disfranchising, and stereotyping of aboriginal Australians is still a problem today. The stereotypes and bias’s are still depicted in films but today we have evolved even more the first (insert film here) it is a extremely significant part of Australia's culture. The portrayal through film of the Indigenous historical issues, present issues and the people in film provides an exclusive look into Australia's relationship with its Indigenous …show more content…

Rabbit Proof Fence depicts Australia's racist past with no extent of hiding the horrors of the stolen generation. It is so telling and major development that so many Australians are now willing to understand and embrace films with an Indigenous focus and to identify and reconcile with Indigenous characters, even if this means siding against the white

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