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This atmospheric short drama was made on film in 1998 and serves as a showcase for some of the outstanding talent nurtured by CAAMA at that time, supported by filmmaking talent from elsewhere including Safina Uberoi and Jackie McKimmie. In a sequence of simple, emotionally charged scenes, MY COLOUR, YOUR KIND gives a powerful impressionistic insight into the feelings of alienation experienced by a teenaged albino Aboriginal girl. In a convent boarding school in Alice Springs, she is misunderstood and bullied by a severe, unloving nun. She escapes in dreams and eventually in reality to her mother living in a camp, where she feels at peace. As an exploration of Aboriginal identity, the film makes a strong contribution, evoking the subjective feelings of someone whose sense of identity is more powerful than the mere surface of her white skin and her blonde hair

Originally produced by Ronin Films in 1998

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