- My name is Rarriwuy Hick, and I'm playing Toni Alma.
Toni Alma is an indigenous woman, an Arrernte woman
from a fictional remote aboriginal community
called Perdar Theendar.
We meet Toni Alma
as she returns back to her community as a detective.
You really get to see how challenging it can be
being an indigenous woman and a detective
in an aboriginal community,
and trying to live between those two worlds.
I had the amazing Marie Ellis, who's from Amoonguna,
teach me central Arrernte.
[speaking in Arrernte]
[Toni speaking in Arrernte]
[speaking in Arrernte]
- Yeah.
[speaking in Arrernte]
- This is police business now.
I love language.
I think language is so important.
To me, it's more than just a form of communication.
It's a way to
speak
to your spirit, or it's also like,
it says who you are and where you come from, you know.
That's a big part of your identity,
whatever language it is, you know.
I think we have a lot of stories that
hidden stories here in Australia that still need to be told,
you know, and
really being brave with how we tell our stories,
I think is important to do that.
You know, the more we can learn from one another
and sit together, and listen and acknowledge
the beautiful and rich culture that we do have here.
One of the oldest cultures in the world.
Once we are able to do that, I think
things will really move and change for all of us.
And at that point we,
we being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
and people of this country, will be accepted and things.
And what better way to do it than through art, you know,
through storytelling. This is something that we're,
we're so good at.
Wow.
This is beautiful.
[Speaking Arrernte]
- Paris?
[Speaking Arrernte]
[Everyone laughs]
You really gotta follow Eileen.
Erica Glynn,
this is the first time working with her,
and that's been
amazing.
She is such a powerhouse,
and someone I really look up to because she,
yeah, she's just,
not only has this whole legacy that she carries, you know,
but she's just such an incredible person
and this is her country down here,
so she's also
going,
you know, this is my home.
You know,
run with it, you know, and trust it.
There's just been a lot of trust, you know, from everyone.
And then Uncle Warren H. Williams,
he's such a humble, very humble man, you know,
He doesn't ever,
you know, you just,
And he too,
like,
this is his baby.
And I say this, every time I say this,
I get really emotional when I tell him this, but
you know when,
yeah, when someone trusts you with their story,
and you know.
I'm not countryman from here.
I'm long way from my home,
but I feel like I've been embraced by everyone here.
And.
And yeah, just that trust has been really amazing.
So I've worked with Steven McGregor quite a few times
and it's
so, it's really nice to come back.
It's been a while since I've worked with him,
so it's nice to come back and work with him again.
And also Murray Louie who's our DOP, you know.
Feeling like you're a part of a family
and that's not just mob from here,
but that's also the cast all cast and crew, you know.
We knew that this was something special, you know.
I remember when we were in rehearsals and pre
and I was like,
Ooh, I have goosebumps.
I can feel
there's something about this show
that's gonna be groundbreaking.
And it's different and it's special.
[bugs and birds]
[speaking Arrernte]
I've been,
performing, acting for 12, 13 years now,
and a lot of my roles, I've been the victim of something,
and to play a role where
she is this strong, determined,
you know, hard working,
desired,
intelligent, black woman
who is a detective.
And
it's different.
And it's something that I've been craving for, you know.
Been craving that for so long and yeah,
it's,
yeah, it's been,
yeah, it's been a huge honor playing this role.
[muffled club music]
Where the hell would she wear these?
- Bingo.
[club music]
- Where would Mariah get this much cash?
- I don't know.
- There's over $15,000 there.
- Teenager with this much hidden money,
suggests something illegal,
drugs, gambling, selling stolen goods.
- Yeah, well, she wouldn't do that.
She's a good girl.
- Yeah?
You didn't know she was sneaking out to Perdar Theendar.
You didn't know about the money.
- Then you tell me.
You go and find out why she died and you come and tell me.
Okay?
Fuck.
- This is my first time working with Luke Arnold.
I,
we did a chemistry test just before doing the shoot. And
so that was my first time meeting him.
And I knew immediately
meeting him, I was like, Yep,
this is someone I feel like we are gonna,
we are really gonna push each other to bring out the best
in each other in this, in this job.
And,
and it has been like that.
It's been so amazing working alongside him.
- Rhonda just wanted an update on where we're at.
- Okay.
- So in total we've interviewed a number of people
in Alice Springs and Perdar Theendar,
but there's no major suspects yet.
And Broderick's account was pretty similar
to what Samuel reported,
Mariah was already on the road,
all they did, was take her to the clinic.
- Did you find out what happened to his hand?
- Yes, said he burnt it.
- Did he say how.
- Reckon it was another kangaroo cook up.
- Do you believe him?
- No, not for a minute.
I think he was trying to get into the burning car.
- But Mariah was already on the road.
- Yeah, exactly.
He let something else slip too, said they saw headlights
of a vehicle driving away when they approached.
But when I asked if he knew the car, he backed off.
- He's hiding something.
- Yeah, I reckon.
- Good work, keep on it.
Let me know how you go.
[Nick sighs]
- Hey Nick, thank you.
- What the fuck's going on, Toni?
- It'll always hold a special place in my heart
and
yeah,
and it's nice to,
Yeah, those ranges are amazing.
You never get sick of looking at that country.
You always look and you're in awe
and it changes all the time with the light and everything.
You're like, Wow.
I find myself.
Every day I try and just sit with the country, you know.
In the morning or afternoon
or whenever I just need some quiet.
In between takes or scenes
I just try and sit with the country and listen to it
and just be present.
[suspenseful music]
- I'm Luke Arnold and I play Nick Gawler,
who is not only the recently declared ex-boyfriend of Toni,
but also another detective.
So yeah, we have both kind of a relationship
and a work relationship
that we're working through during the show.
- [Woman On Phone] I'm sending out
another detective to assist you.
- Sure.
Who is it?
- How to define Nick?
You know, my idea was a little bit
that he was a social social worker before,
which I think gives him
a different way of working with people.
And that also, while he is a cop,
he's really interested in Aboriginal culture
and especially cause his love of Toni
and wanting to be part of her world.
That while he is coming in with a job to do
and he does wanna find out what happened.
That that is kind of as equally important to him
as understanding the people in this world.
[brooding music]
- She's not here.
What the fuck? This woman got no shame.
- What?
- The borders are black,
the artists here don't paint them like that.
- Okay,
but can we focus on one crime at a time?
[Toni chuckles]
- So, where else would they go to paint?
Working in Amoonguna,
and working with people in the community
and a lot of local actors and first time actors
has been a huge highlight of this.
Already being able to see some of the footage
of some of these local actors
who haven't done anything before
and they're just incredible.
Feel very kind of humbled by working alongside them
and seeing what they bring.
As well as everyone is just so forthcoming with
whether it's teaching a bit of language
or a little bit about the land
and all the smoking ceremonies we had.
It's been a real welcoming and educational experience
from beginning to end.
[somber music]
[kids playing]
[dogs barking]
We were really lucky that,
because of all the Covid stuff going on,
a lot of us were able to get to Alice Springs a bit early,
which means,
which meant that Rarriwuy and I had a lot of time
to do some rehearsals at the beginning
to spend some time together.
And it's a real privilege
that you don't get on a lot of things.
So it was great because
we had time to really chart a relationship through the story
Because it is a mystery, it's a detective show
for a lot of the scenes that kind of takes the,
that's where most of the text is.
So it was really helpful for us
that we had this time to dig into the subtext.
And then also
then we had time to like, you know,
go and have a drink and, you know,
sometimes we were like, you know, sitting at the pub,
going through all our lines there and kind of working on it,
which meant that you kind of get to build the relationship
and kind of these memories and a sense of each other,
which really informs us when we're gonna do scenes,
when we are talking about the characters
spending time in Alice together.
- How did Samuel handle Xavier?
Was he genuinely chasing answers?
- You really don't trust your uncle, do you?
- We know Brendan was with Mariah,
so those fellahs are covering something up
and Samuel's letting them.
- Okay,
so how do we find out who's telling the truth?
I've been working as an actor in Australia
since I finished drama school in about 2006.
And this really feels, more than anything else,
like I'm part of a real Australian story,
doing something that hasn't been done before,
showing a side of Australia
that I don't think we've seen on a TV series before.
Especially because we hear English and Arrernte,
we're in a community, we see some things
about aboriginal culture that
I didn't really know about and especially to this extent.
So I feel really proud to be part of this story
and I've been learning a lot as part of it,
as far as being a part of it.
And I feel really proud that I get to be part of the story
that we get to share with other people
and show some things that they might not know.
[phone says Arrernte word] [Nick repeats Arrernte word]
[speaking in Arrernte]
- I'm Miranda Otto. I'm playing Isabelle in True Colors
and you wanna introduce yourself, Marie.
My name's Marie Elena Ellis
and I'm the Arrernte translator and interpreter
and working closely with Miranda.
- Yeah.
I first met Marie here,
first of all, she sent me some recordings,
which was really helpful,
but I realized I was gonna have to do some serious work.
And then I met Marie at the production office
and she has this whole amazing classroom set up in there
with all the dialogue up on the wall
and it written phonetically and then it written in Arrernte
and written in English.
- So there's a character named Viv
that's in episode one, page 37.
In English she's saying, Hey pull up.
You know, you got no shame.
And then in Arrernte, [speaking Arrernte]
and then that's in Arrernte and in
phonetically I break it down in orange.
It's been a challenge.
Really it's been a challenge.
Yeah working with you like, you know,
first, second, the third day you nail it.
You got the sounding of the words in Arrernte and like,
I was surprised in how quickly you learnt because
you're my good student because you listen to instructions.
And the sounding that you make to sound.
- Thank you. - You know?
- Yeah. What was really great was like I,
I'm just one of those people
who like always wants to just try and get in and nail it
and you're like, relax,
breathe. - Breathe.
- So like, I could do it better. I was getting better at it
when I wasn't thinking about it so much.
- And I keep telling Miranda to, you know,
just clear your mind, close your eye, close your mouth
and open your ears and just inhale and exhale.
And that helped a lot. Didn't it?
- It did. Actually a lot of my experience here
has been like that. I think, you know,
you come in sometimes with your city mentality,
you know, you're like fast, fast, busy, busy.
Must do this, must achieve that.
It's been really nice to be here and just like
settle into things.
And a lot of it is about listening.
Yeah. You'd say close your eyes, just listen to what I say.
- Listen to the rhythm, the sound,
when we speaking.
And that's the easiest way to learn it,
is listening to the sound and the rhythm.
Like the one you got like
[speaking Arrernte]
Remember that?
- Yes, We spent a long time on Akaltja.
- Mmm. Akaltja.
And you keep saying Aah-kiii-tcha
And I said Aah-kal-tcha.
And I said you gotta say it like, you mean like.
- Like you're a desert woman.
- Yeah. You gotta say it like you mean it.
[speaking Arrernte]
- If you must know my fee is 60%.
If you're that interested,
I could sell you one at family rates.
- How much?
- For family
45, 50,000.
[speaking Arrernte]
Cause you were saying Arrernte is different
to like all the different indigenous languages
in Australia are all different.
But that this one, you were saying,
was particularly straightforward and like very
like not loose and slow. It's very like direct.
- Direct, direct.
No time waster.
- Yeah.
- You know, you got no time to waste.
You just gotta say it, communicate, and then move on.
- Yeah. - It's like bang and then go.
It's like
in the desert, it's all about
that communication. You gotta say it straight to, you know,
you gotta walk maybe a hundred Ks or whatever
to the nearest water hole.
So you have to have that minimum language
and that clear instruction and direction.
- Yeah.
And like, yeah.
And Arrernte is the hardest language in, you know,
to try and learn to speak it and learn it and whatever
in two weeks or whatever. - Yeah.
- But I think you'd nailed it.
You've nailed it. Definitely.
- You're so, so kind.
You're so kind.
- And every time you said it on set,
like when you was doin' your line, like,
I get these goosebumps and I was like, yes, she nailed it.
Yeah. Because like you listen to direction.
- What does it feel like to have your language spoken
in a television show?
- Well, it's gonna be awesome.
It's gonna be like,
it's gonna make a lot of Arrernte nation proud, really.
- I mean, for me that's one of the most,
the things I'm proudest of with the series
that we've managed to get Arrernte language in,
you know.
When you in Central Australia, when you're in Alice Springs,
it's very, very difficult to ignore
that there are many, many Aboriginal languages
alive and being spoken.
Doesn't matter what culture you come from,
white fellas, black fellas, Africans, Indians, Asians.
Aboriginal language is alive
and very, very present in this town.
And to actually make a series without it
would be incredibly odd, set this town, like really odd.
So, and as you probably know,
that guy who came up with the initial idea, Warren Williams,
he's an Arrernte Man, so, and he's from, you know,
born and bred in this town. And so
it was natural
that we were gonna head to the Arrernte language,
because Alice Springs is on Arrernte land.
And it's a joy for me because that's my background.
I come from community media where we,
a lot of our work
was about giving space to aboriginal languages.
And
look, to be honest,
the rest of the country are doing little bit better
in understanding
the value of the languages from this country,
the original languages from this country.
But perhaps they're not doing enough.
So it's good. I'm really, yeah, like I said,
I'm really, really proud to, you know, give it another boost
and put it in people's faces
and let them feel it and hear it and see it.
And I know that a lot of our local cast
are very, very happy about us taking that approach.
[speaking Arrernte]
- Yeah, they're beautiful.
But I'm actually looking for this lady right here, Yvette.
Do you know her?
[speaking Arrernte]
No, I don't wanna buy her paintings.
I just wanna talk to her.
[speaking Arrernte]
- Which clinic?
- You, bigshot. Figure it out.
- For me. I mean,
I live between Alice Springs and Sydney,
and when I walk down the street in Sydney where I live,
every single house has an Aboriginal artwork on its wall.
And, you know,
that's bloody fantastic
because the art industry is a vital part of this community.
But I don't know that everybody knows,
They might know a little bit of the story of that artwork.
They might know some of the symbolism in it,
but I don't know if they know where it really comes from,
where it's, and you know,
I think it's important for them to understand that.
So, you know, we chose to set our mystery
in the aboriginal art world, and to give it some context
for the deeper meaning of that art.
And you know, that there are owners of that art
and other caretakers of that art
or that, you know,
people are willing to go to great lengths to protect that.
[speaking Arrernte]
- Yeah,
of course.
We've got boomerangs,
spears,
digging sticks,
grinding stones, shields,
men and women together,
hunting and traveling from waterhole to waterhole.
- Almost.
It's actually young people hunting in the Sand hills.
It talks about how they used to walk around naked
and how they'd swim together
and make love by the waterholes.
It's beautiful. Huh?
- Great.
- It is a common experience for a lot of aboriginal people
that they are for some reason
distant from their homelands and their communities.
And
When Rarriwuy Hick, who is our lead actress,
read the script, she said,
Oh my gosh, this is my story.
I actually lived away from my home,
away from my family for quite a lot of time
and I've had to renegotiate it.
And in the process of negotiating my way
and reconnecting with my family
and one of the big themes in our series is that,
and
yeah,
she's probably not the only person to have said that
when she's read the scripts. It's like,
Oh, this is my story. This is my story, you know.
[speaking Arrernte] [Toni laughing]
- Yeah I know, mum.
I'm sorry.
- People are still living
in very, very close family group situations
and our families are often very big and very extended,
and that's your world, you know.
And so it felt right
that our lead cop
is investigating her own family.
And in fact, you know, to be honest, what happened was
Warren said who he wanted the murderer to be.
When he first sort of pitched it with his one line idea,
he said, and I want the murderer to be.
- You said you'd bring him back.
Now he's dead.
What the fuck happened?
[speaking Arrernte]
- In English!
- I found him.
He knew he was in trouble.
He took off.
Crashed.
And now he's,
finished up.
- Did you go alone?
Did you take anyone with you?
Was he sung, punishment for stealing those paintings?
[speaking Arrernte]
- You've got no fuckin' respect.
- Don't you hide behind our culture.
Sleeping with Isabelle? Drinking?
You're full of shit.
You choose the cultural line when it suits you.
- I know where my line is.
I might have broken whitefella law, not my family law.
- Amoonguna community just rocks.
You cannot pay for this stuff. You cannot set it up.
You cannot art direct it. You cannot direct it.
The massive, massive backing, the massive involvement,
the day to day just graciousness and
support,
and to my great relief
pride it's bringing to people.
Like you're seeing people lift their heads and be amazed
and do amazing things
that they thought that they would never do before.
Like, it just gives
A. it gives me deep satisfaction,
but it just gives me pride for them too.
Like, you could not ask for anything else.
You could not ask for for more. You couldn't.
- [Isabelle] If we don't find her, I'm screwed.
I'm sure Xavier's involved.
We should have Xavier charged with kidnapping.
[speaking foreign language]
Uuh, careful.
Speaking another language will make me think
that you're trying to hide something from me.
- Hey, you are good.
You noticed.
- That's Latji language.
It's from southside.
We had a bet you'd be able to pick it up, our loss.
[panicked Arrernte]
- Is he breathing?
Can you tell if he's breathing?
[speaking Arrernte]
- Brendan, Brendan, Brendan.
- There's no doubt that the local casting
done by Peta-Lee and Tanith is like,
they've knocked it out of the ballpark.
Every single person that stands in front of that camera
has been ready and willing to go.
And they want to perfect it.
And they are, they sizzle on screen. It's just,
I'm so thankful because, you know,
I wondered whether or not
we were gonna be able to pull this off, and we have.
In the first instance,
that they have a bloody great experience
watching a great narrative,
a great kind of story journey and stuff. But you know,
I'm a black filmmaker. My responsibility is never, you know,
there are dual responsibilities with what I do
in everything that I make.
I've gotta make this be a great story.
I've also gotta give insights into my community,
insights into our world and insights into our culture.
And not in a fake way. I've gotta do that in a real way,
in a way that gives my community pride and makes them go,
Yes, that's right.
I feel like I'm represented correctly.
So yeah, that's the big hope. And it's not easy.
None of that's easy. So, and we're not quite there yet.
[women wailing]
[paint smearing]
[wailing continues]
[melancholy hawk squawk]
- My name's Steve McGregor.
I'm one of the directors along with Erica Glynn
and also one of the writers
along with Erica and Danielle MacLean.
For me what True Colors represents
is family, culture, land, and law.
And all that is represented in the artwork,
which comes from the land and the law.
And our main character, Toni, who's played by Rarriwuy Hick,
is thrust in the middle of that story,
that confluence of thematic storylines.
And she has to navigate her way through that.
So she's at the center of that narrative.
Now I've known Erica for a very, very long time and there's
very lucky to work with her.
I've worked with her in various capacities
but not co-directing before,
and it's a very respectful relationship.
You know, I think
I know we're leaning on each other at times
and we just questioning storylines
or a way to approach things.
So it's a very open dialogue and sharing.
You know, if we take the storyline this way or that way
or how are you shaping the character.
So when I'm directing those actors, that they're not thrown.
It's like, a clean line for the character's journey.
So no, it's been really good.
And also being in the story room with her
alongside Danielle MacLean and Warren Williams.
You know, we came up with a story.
So we're both intimately involved.
It's exciting cause you write it
and people make things happen, you know.
It's all there. So it's been amazing.
And then you get actors to say the words
and then they bring their craft to it
and then they do things that you'd never expected before
and it brings it to life.
It's just exciting to see everyone working so hard
to bring it to life. And it's interesting, like,
I like the fact that I'm not,
I'm directing Danielle's script, not one of my,
I'm directing one of my own, but also directing Danielle's
and interpreting her words.
And Erica's directing one of my scripts
and she's coming at it with her voice
and her sense of stories. And you know,
basically once you hand a script over to a director,
I think you have to give over that ownership.
- I gotta go to my family's out station.
I think Brendan might be out there.
- All right, I'll come with you.
- You can't, I gotta go alone.
- How's that gonna work?
If Brendan killed Mariah.
Toni, we can't have him arrested by his own sister.
- My uncle Ezekiel is out there,
He's the big boss for all of us.
He's not gonna let his nephew jump in the car
with a white cop.
- Okay,
but don't interview him.
Don't even talk to him.
Just bring him back here and we do it together, officially.
- Well I think it's very important
because a lot of people down south
have no idea that this world exists.
And there's a whole system of governance and law and culture
that's been here since, you know, the first sun rose.
And to have language, which is identity, you know,
we're saying identity exists here
and that's the Australian identity.
And it ain't going anywhere. So,
And it gives
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people pride
to hear language on television screens
cause it's never heard, you know,
not in this sense where a whole drama series
is based in a community.
And you can just see a lot of our actors,
who aren't professional actors, they come to life,
the fact that they can speak their language on television
and they're up against some good actors
and they're holding their ground, you know,
they're not intimidated.
And I think it's really special.
- What did he say?
[speaking Arrernte]
- How many men were out there?
[speaking in Arrernte]
- How long were they out in the desert for?
- You got a couple of weeks.
- Couple of weeks?
I thought men's business went for months.
[speaking Arrernte]
- Every day's a highlight, every day's a challenge.
But it's,
I mean we have a really hardworking, respectful crew.
You know, you're only as good as your crew.
So you have that support behind you. And I think,
I mean basically that's my highlight, really.
Cause a lot of these crew mob haven't been up here before,
you know.
And they've all been overwhelmed and
taken in by the countryside, the people, the culture.
So I think they will take that back with them,
which is very important, you know, and share those stories.
And a lot of 'em said they wanna come back or hang around
and, you know, explore the countryside.
So I mean that's another highlight. Sharing stories.
And I'm listening to crew members
getting taught language by Marie
and you know, Warren and that, and they're all,
they're very inquisitive.
And it's not just tokenism either.
It's genuine.
They wanna learn and listen. So that's another highlight.
Yeah. But like I say, every day is a highlight.
- My name is Warren H. Williams.
I'm a western Arrernte man and I'm also a Waramanga man
from my grandmother's side.
Waramanga is Weston Creek way.
And the character Samuel
is someone that I've known.
He's my father, he's my brother, he's my cousin,
he's my son, he's my, you know.
And, he's that person
that will always be there for you.
You know, that's who Samuel is.
When I think of who Samuel is.
- I thought it was a dry community.
- Oh it is.
- That's not a good look, local copper drinking.
[speaking Arrernte]
- Who else do you drink with?
[answers in Arrernte]
- Well, Samuel is uncle to Toni,
the detective who's come back to Perdar Theendar.
Perdar Theendar is the community
that is where Sam's from and that's where Toni is from.
Samuel is Toni's uncle,
brother to Tony's mother, Viv.
So, and he's a policeman.
Policeman out the community.
So he's both law to white law and blackfella law.
- No, I have to know what Xavier has to say.
- You will, Me and Nick will tell you.
- Eileen's still missing.
Why don't you concentrate on finding her?
- This is fine. Remara.
- How do you know if you haven't found her?
- You want me to check on Brendan's alibi or not?
[Toni sighs]
- Again, a lot of people don't realize
that Arrernte is western Arrernte, central Arrernte,
eastern Arrernte. Then there's Amoonguna, which is Northern
and Pmarntwe, which is Southern.
So there's Eastern, Central and Western
and Arrernte spoken and also literature,
bit a literature chucked in there.
And then there's English chucked in there too. So,
but it's so good to have all them languages spoken
and it is so
so good to have all those languages spoken,
you know,
at the same place.
Yeah, it's so good at same time.
- Eileen.
[Speaking Arrernte]
- Is there a reason
you're not painting for Isabelle anymore?
Do you know what happened to that marla gou?
[speaking Arrernte]
- I wish I could help.
[Toni sighs]
- My best highlight would be,
I remember when we were at the production, first production,
the big one, in the office.
And I was sitting next to Steve and Erica was next to me and
after the meeting was finished,
Erica came and showed me a piece of paper,
and she showed me what it was
and what the note said was, "I want to be Sam."
I wrote that at a workshop and gave it to Steve.
I think Erica saw that, and she kept it. She kept it.
And it is so funny that that's my highlight.
And I got a photo taken with it saying "I want to be Sam."
[speaking Arrernte]
- I went to pick her up, but she's not at home.
Her family don't know where she is.
Well something's wrong.
Eileen wouldn't just not show up.
She really wants to go to Paris.
- There any chance this connected to Jay's death?
[speaking Arrernte]
- My experience with traveling around, seeing.
There's still a lot of people who don't,
Don't realize there's places like,
well Amoonguna, there's a community like this that exists
and people that English is their fifth or sixth language
and people, what we portray on the show
is what happens in a community like this.
You know, it still goes on, you know.
The culture is very, very strong out here.
You know looking at the mountain, right?
The caterpillars, you know, all that.
So we still believe,
This is our belief.
We believe that's our caterpillar.
You know, that's all that.
So we are still, you know,
so it's very, very important for people
that live in Australia, cause it's their country too,
they have to realize
that this is part of the culture of Australia.
[speaking Arrernte]
- What does that achieve?
Is it a good thing that Perdar Theendar is dry?
[speaking Arrernte]
- For me
because my family is part of the three Caterpillar thing
and which is so good, cause most of the people
that live in Amoonguna
is part of the other Caterpillars too.
Which is so good. They all work with me.
let us working because I'm part of their storyline
and which so, so lucky that we got it, you know.
We got the community, you know,
to be and they welcomed us, you know,
and they said, Yeah, if you wanna do it,
Let's do it. Yeah.
[noisy motorbike]
[angry yelling]
- Are you gonna do something?
[speaking Arrernte]
[football players jeer]
[laughs]
[speaking Arrernte]
- [Football Player] Fuck off Brendan.
Get outta here.
- There was one part there
sort of where everyone got scared
that what might not happen or what should be shown.
But it was so amazing that a lot of the community mob said,
Yeah, we want to show some of the stuff
like the sorry business and payback, and you know,
just a little bit. You just see it, but it happens,
you know, cause it happens here in the communities.
You know, that's the good thing about it.
All those things that we, you know, a lot of people go,
Ah, does it really happen?
Yes, it happens.
[eerie music]
I mean like Erica Glynn and Steve McGregor
and well another writer too, Daniel MacLean forgot to say,
you know,
I've known them at Combine
before they were who they are now.
And it, and it's so good.
I mean, I've known you before what you do now.
I mean, like it's,
but it's so good to happen there.
Cause I feel comfortable because I know who they are
and they,
when Steve is directing or Erica is directing,
hang on, I know those people. I've known them before.
So before who they were now and it's so good.
I mean like we got a crew, amazing crew, you know,
they make you feel comfortable to really go.