Nicole Ma’s award-winning documentary charts the fight to preserve culture as the Wangkatjungka people of Western Australia are ravaged by substance abuseIn the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia,a snake spirit lives in the hidden ceremonial waterhole, or “jila” (living water) as it’s known by the Wangkatjungka people.
Twenty-year-former archival footage featured in a new documentary, and Putuparri and the Rainmakers,captures young men digging a tiny wet patch of their remote country, Kurtal. Clean water quickly rises to the surface. It had taken six days of four-wheel driving through sand hills and scrubby bush from the tiny Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing to reach the waterhole. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com