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Aug 14, 2015 · Putuparri and the Rainmakers (2015) is about the courage of Putuparri Tom Lawford, a Kimberley Wangkajunga man whose determined love of family, culture and traditional lands takes him on a...
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Aug 5, 2015 · Putuparri and the Rainmakers: Directed by Nicole Ma. A documentary about an Aboriginal man living in Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia that maps out his ancestors' spiritual connection to the land and his family's continuing custodianship of it.
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'Putuparri and the Rainmakers' is a true story about a Western Desert man trying to reconnect with culture. For more than ten years, Ma followed Putuparri on a spiritual journey back to Kurtal, a sacred waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert. “I was quite ignorant towards Aboriginal culture when I first started making the film,” she said.
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Oct 1, 2015 · Putuparri and the Rainmakers: ceremony and alcoholism in remote Australia. Steve Dow. Nicole Ma’s award-winning documentary charts the fight to maintain culture as the Wangkatjungka people...
"A stunning story of Aboriginal culture, life and law" - THE CONVERSATION.#PutuparriAndTheRainmakers is a universal story about the sacred relationship betwe...
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Putuparri And The Rainmakers review: A story of life, time and culture Nicole Ma's documentary is political and personal, serious and light-hearted, and never less than striking to look at.
Summaries. A documentary about an Aboriginal man living in Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia that maps out his ancestors' spiritual connection to the land and his family's continuing custodianship of it. Tom 'Putuparri' Lawford has been fighting for 20 years to regain his people's sacred watering hole of Kurtal.
