The Last Trackers of the Outback
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The Last Trackers of the Outback is a 2007 documentary film
about Aboriginal trackers in Australia
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The documentary, co-directed by Eric Ellena
and Vanessa Escalante, won the Public’s Choice Award 2008 FIFO - Pacific International Documentary Film Festival
of Tahiti.
The films tells the story of the last of the native Aboriginal tracker
s in Australia and documents their unique tracking capacities and the usefulness of their tracking skills, for example in cattle breeding and in police investigations. The film explores the unique skills of these trackers and the importance to understand and record this knowledge before the great trackers disappear and take their secrets and extraordinary skills with them. Featured in the documentary are some of the last great trackers of the outback such as Tommy George
.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about Aboriginal trackers in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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The documentary, co-directed by Eric Ellena
Eric Ellena
-Career:As a director his films include The Last Trackers of the Outback, which won the Public’s Choice Award at the 2008 FIFO - Pacific International Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti and The Long March of Bob Slaughter....
and Vanessa Escalante, won the Public’s Choice Award 2008 FIFO - Pacific International Documentary Film Festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
of Tahiti.
The films tells the story of the last of the native Aboriginal tracker
Aboriginal tracker
In the years following British settlement in Australia, aboriginal trackers or black trackers, as they became known, were enlisted by settlers to assist them in navigating their way through the Australian landscape...
s in Australia and documents their unique tracking capacities and the usefulness of their tracking skills, for example in cattle breeding and in police investigations. The film explores the unique skills of these trackers and the importance to understand and record this knowledge before the great trackers disappear and take their secrets and extraordinary skills with them. Featured in the documentary are some of the last great trackers of the outback such as Tommy George
Tommy George
Dr Tommy George Senior is an elder of the Kuku Thaypan clan. He is a Agu Alaya speaker.-Biography:He was born in his own country, near Lakefield National Park...
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