Where to Watch Homeland Story (2019)

Summary

In 1974, Neville White, a young student from Victoria arrived in a remote Indigenous Homeland in the far north of Australia, to research a PhD in genetic anthropology. There he met the people who changed his life, as he changed theirs. In effect, he has never left. Forty years of photographs, film and video taken by Neville provide a powerful, intimate portrait of his friendship with a tribal Indigenous family; a friendship that continues to the present day. It tracks the family's transition from the Stone Age to the Digital Age in just two generations. From Dhulatarama, the clan leader who still knew how to make stone tools, to his grand-daughter Joanne Yindiri, who is training to become a primary school teacher. Today, Doyndji is blessed in many ways. It is peaceful, drug and alcohol free, but no Homeland is an island. Through the prism of one community the vexatious questions of mining interests, corrosive government policy and the precarious future of Indigenous Homelands are explored. Homeland Story is an intimate portrait of a small community and a balanda (white man) facing the ultimate challenge together: How to preserve the Donydji Homeland.