What would you sacrifice to be seen by the camera that erased your people?
Betty and Rosalie are best friends living on a Northern Territory mission. When cinema titans Charles and Elsa Chauvel arrive, searching for the perfect star for their revolutionary moving picture, the girls are forced to decide whether to rise up to the occasion.
Acting
Briscoe and Breaden's silent communication destroys me.
Direction
Glynn-Maloney packs a feature's worth of history into eight minutes.
Cinematography
The Chauvels' glamour vs. mission bleakness — brutal contrast.
Director
Tanith Glynn-Maloney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Jedda (1955) was the first Australian film in color, starring Ngarla Kunoth — but this short asks who else was passed over and forgotten.
Director Tanith Glynn-Maloney is a Kaytetye woman; this isn't historical fiction to her, it's family history reframed.
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