Black River | |
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Directed by | Kevin Lucas |
Produced by | Aanya Whitehead Kevin Lucas Sue Maslin |
Written by | Kevin Lucas |
Starring | Akiko Nakajima James Bonnefin Maroochy Barambah John Pringle Bangarra Dance Theatre |
Music by | Andrew Schultz |
Cinematography | Kim Batterham |
Editing by | Dany Cooper |
Release date(s) | 1993 |
Running time | 55 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Black River is a 1993 Australian film directed and produced by Kevin Lucas and starring Aboriginal mezzo-soprano Maroochy Barambah. It is a film adaptation of an opera that tells a story around an Aboriginal death in custody. It was nominated for the 1993 Australian Film Institute Award for Award Best Screenplay and won the 1994 Montréal International Festival of Films on Art Jury Prize for Adapted Screenplay of the Year.
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