The Menzies Australia Institute present the launch of SATELLITE DREAMING REVISITED, a web resource which describes and analyses the last four decades of Australian Indigenous media - work which offers a unique and powerful case study of a community struggling to represent itself in electronic media.

The launch includes a discussion event featuring Frances Peters-Little and Phillip Batty, as well as an opportunity to view the documentary SHE WHO MUST BE LOVED (Erica Glynn, 2018), in which the life of Freda Glynn, co-founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) and Imparja TV, is interwoven with the broader story of Indigenous media in Australia.

She Who Must Be Loved will be available to stream for two weeks (February 28th to March 13th), and the online launch/discussion event will take place via Zoom on Friday March 11 at 9am (GMT) / 8pm (AEST).

To join the discussion, please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/satellite-dreaming-revisited-website-launch-discussion-tickets-271096576157

ABOUT THE WEBSITE:

SATELLITE DREAMING REVISITED describes and analyses the last four decades of Australian Indigenous media - work which offers a unique and powerful case study of a community struggling to represent itself in electronic media. The website explores the major themes and issues that have emerged in this struggle.

Satellite Dreaming was a TV programme – broadcast in Australia and in the UK in the early 1990s. SATELLITE DREAMING REVISITED uses a chapterised version of the 1991 programme as the focus for exploring Indigenous media work in Australia from the 1980s to now, through interviews with many of the people involved in the original programme, and in the wider field - some of whom have also written essays for the Site. The sources section contains over 100 pages of information about relevant films, books, documents, and organisations, as well as the (fully transcribed) interviews.