NIMINJARRA premieres on NITV

Wakka and Minyawe at Kumpu Pirntily. Photo by Kiefer Dann © PAKAM 2016.

NIMINJARRA airs on NITV at 7:00pm, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 as part of the second series of SONGLINES ON SCREEN.

SONGLINES ON SCREEN is a special collaboration between Screen Australia and NITV that presents short films from the remote regions of western, northern and central Australia. The films represent Aboriginal people’s ongoing connection to land and culture as told throughout time by the way of creation songs.

About NIMINJARRA

NIMINJARRA is a story owned by Warnman people of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia shared with other language groups to the east. The short is narrated by custodians Minyawe Miller, Wakka Taylor and Muuki Taylor in Warnman and Manjiljarra languages. It is directed by their great nephew and grandson Curtis Taylor (YULBIDYI – UNTIL THE END).

NIMIJARRA tells the story of two dissatisfied young men who transformed themselves into snakes (“Jila Kujarra”) to make their way home from law ceremony to their mother in the west.

They crossed paths with the “Niminjarra”, spirit beings travelling from the south, who pursued them through significant cultural places all the way to Paji. The “Niminjarra” were the spiritual ancestors of the Warnman people who live in the region.

NIMINJARRA premieres on NITV at 7:00pm, Tuesday, 22 January 2019.

NIMINJARRA was filmed in Western Australia on the traditional country of the Warnman People.

It is a Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media production, produced with the assistance of Screenwest and Lotterywest, developed and financed with the assistance of NITV, with principal funding from Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department.

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