David Gulpilil

Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

Andy (Martin Freeman) corre contra o tempo para salvar sua filha. Infectado por um vírus de uma pandemia zumbi, ele tem apenas 48 horas para encontrar um lugar seguro a fim de proteger a criança. A salvação que o pai procura pode estar em um tribo aborígene isolada, mas para ter acesso ao grupo, ele terá que ajudar uma jovem indígena em uma missão perigosa.

O detetive caubói indígena Jay Swan chega na cidade fronteiriça de Goldstone para um inquérito sobre pessoas desaparecidas. O que parece ser uma simples investigação abre uma rede de crime e corrupção. Jay deve retomar sua vida e esquecer suas diferenças com o jovem policial local, Josh, e então juntos eles poderão trazer justiça para Goldstone. Sequência de Mystery Road (2013).

In a playful collision of cultures, a hapless Irishman and his Parisian girlfriend get more than they bargained for when they encounter a particularly mischievous stranger in the spectacular Australian wilderness.

In this documentary companion to CHARLIE'S COUNTRY, Australian actor David Gulpilil tells the story of when his people's way of life was derailed by ours.

In this documentary companion to CHARLIE'S COUNTRY, Australian actor David Gulpilil tells the story of when his people's way of life was derailed by ours.

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country — equipped only with ancient survival skills — to stop the city developers.

Início da 2ª Guerra Mundial. Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) é uma arrogante aristocrata inglesa, que possui uma fazenda de gado na Austrália. Ela viaja ao país para reencontrar o marido, mas ao chegar descobre que ele foi assassinado. Para não perder a fazenda, ela se une a um vaqueiro (Hugh Jackman) e ao garoto aborígene Nullah (Brandon Walters). Juntos eles precisam levar um rebanho de gado até Darwin, no interior do país.

Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a full-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfill the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother's dreaming, the crocodile totem. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.

Na Austrália, quando havia somente as tribos aborígenes, dez homens vão ao pântano coletar ovos de gumang, uma espécie de ganso. Dayindi, um jovem guerreiro, corteja a mulher mais nova de seu irmão mais velho. Para que ele aprenda os costumes corretos, contam a ele a lenda de um passado mítico.

Após um intenso tiroteio entre policiais e uma gangue de foras-da-lei, Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) e seu irmão Mike (Richard Wilson) são capturados pelo capitão Stanley (Ray Winstone). Juntamente com seu irmão Arthur (Danny Huston), o trio é procurado por ter cometido um crime brutal. Na tentativa de pôr fim a um sangrento ciclo de violência, Stanley faz a Charlie uma proposta aparentemente impossível de ser aceita.

This documentary follows Phillip Noyce as he tries to find three aboriginal girls able to act in his film Rabbit Proof Fence. The film sees a cast of 100's whittled down to the eventual three girls and follows them through workshops and into the difficult shoot.

A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.

Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi) é uma jovem australiana de 14 anos que, em 1931, ao lado de sua irmã Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), de 10 anos, e sua prima Gracie (Laura Monaghan), de 8 anos, foge de um campo do governo britânico da Austrália, criado para treinar mulheres arborígenes para serem empregadas domésticas. Molly guia as meninas por quase três mil quilômetros através do interior do país, em busca da cerca que o divide e que a permitiria voltar para sua aldeia de origem, de onde foram tiradas dos braços de suas mães. Na jornada elas são perseguidas pelos homens do terrível governador A. O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh), o qual não admite que as meninas não estejam de acordo com o ditado pela sabedoria branca e cristã.

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins her Aboriginal mother in a card game.

Até o fim do mundo é uma odisséia para a era moderna. Como na Odisséia de Homero, o objetivo da jornada é restaurar a visão - uma reconciliação espiritual entre um pai obcecado e um filho. Farber, ao tentar encontrar uma cura para a cegueira de sua esposa, criou um dispositivo que permite ao usuário enviar imagens diretamente para o cérebro, permitindo que os cegos vejam.

In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..

Michael J. “Crocodilo” Dundee é um criativo australiano que caça crocodilos com as próprias mãos, derruba gigantescos búfalos aquáticos e bebe como ninguém. Mas ele está prestes a enfrentar um tremendo teste de tortura: Uma viagem à Nova Iorque. A bela e persistente repórter Sue Charlton consegue mais que uma simples matéria, quando "a maravilha australiana" põe Nova Iorque de pernas para o ar.

O livro de Tom Wolfe que conta a história do programa espacial norte-americano foi escrito como um romance, e o filme tem a mesma qualidade ficcional. Ele cobre desde a quebra da barreira do som por Chuck Yeager até aos astronautas da Mercury 7, mostrando que ninguém tinha a menor ideia de como executar um programa espacial ou como selecionar as pessoas para participarem. Os sete eleitos são Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra e Deke Slayton. Emocionante, engraçado, charmoso e eletrizante ao mesmo tempo.

Produced and directed this documentary for BBC in the 1980’s, about David Gulpilil, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal actor, dancer and musician. The film shows how Gulpilil is always working to bridge the gap between the tribal Aboriginal and Western worlds. He divides his time between a traditional tribal lifestyle and his artistic work, which has included major film roles, collaboration with contemporary dance and music groups and teaching Aboriginal dance and culture. Bill and David travel to Hollywood where David was the most popular Australian in the world at that time, with FOUR films playing in America – WALKABOUT, STORM BOY, THE LAST WAVE and MAD DOG MORGAN. After relating to both the black and native American cultures and filming a quick scene for a big Hollywood picture, he pines to head back through the Outback to his beloved Arnhem Land. Edited by Simon Dibbs and shot by Ray Henman.

David Gulpilil performs three Aboriginal dances, Emu, Kangaroo and Fish. The first two are solo performances by Gulpilil and are closer to mime than dance. The third is a group dance with some of the children from Bamyili where Gulpilil lives in the Northern Territory.

Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal people and their land (including the Dreaming, sacred places), this film was inspired by Silas Roberts’ submission to the 1976 Australian Government inquiry on uranium mining - the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. Silas, whose tribal name is Ngourladi, is an elder of the Allawa clan and was the first chairman of the Northern Land Council, established to assist Aboriginal people make land rights claims based on traditional ownership. The film, which moves from Arnhem Land in the north to Yuendumu in the centre, examines the importance of maintaining Aboriginal culture and laws and explains the reasons why they object to the mining being carried out.

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) é um jovem advogado tributarista. Sua vida sofre sobre uma estranha reviravolta após se envolver num caso em defesa de um grupo de aborígenes, que foram acusados de assassinato. Burton começa a ter visões perturbadoras e visões fantasmagóricas de Chris (David Gulpilil, Walkabout), um dos homens envolvidos no assassinato.

The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

A documentary about the making of the Australian feature Mad Dog Morgan (1976).

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

In 1973, fresh from his performance in Walkabout, a film that brought outback landscapes to urban audiences, Gulpilil returned the favour by paying a visit to Melbourne with camera in hand, shooting a wry fly-on-the-wall documentary that compares the sights and sounds of the city to those of his home in Arnhem Land.

In 1973, fresh from his performance in Walkabout, a film that brought outback landscapes to urban audiences, Gulpilil returned the favour by paying a visit to Melbourne with camera in hand, shooting a wry fly-on-the-wall documentary that compares the sights and sounds of the city to those of his home in Arnhem Land.

In 1973, fresh from his performance in Walkabout, a film that brought outback landscapes to urban audiences, Gulpilil returned the favour by paying a visit to Melbourne with camera in hand, shooting a wry fly-on-the-wall documentary that compares the sights and sounds of the city to those of his home in Arnhem Land.