Not a remake of the seminal Larry Clark film but rather a project about First Nations and the generations of children stuck on the margins of society,Australian docu helmer Maya Newell has work almost a decade alongside those featured in Kids. Receiving some Documentary Fund post-production coin followed by some help via the Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound Composers and Directors for 2018 Film Music and Sound Design Lab this past summer, a 2019 festival premiere appears to be in the works. Her previous feature Gayby Baby was selected for Hot Docs 2016.
Gist: Like many Indigenous kids before him, 10-yr-old Dujuan is fighting an enemy he cannot see, which makes him strike out at everything. When he cannot run, nor fight alone, he realizes that not only has he inherited the trauma and dispossession of his land, but also the resilience and resistance of many generations of his people which holds the key to his future.
Production Co./Producers: Larissa Behrendt, Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson, Sophie Hyde, Maya Newell
Prediction: World Documentary Competition.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international).
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