Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire (2024)
18:30, 4 April 2025
Trocadero Projects
Level 1, 40 Leeds Street, Footscray VIC 3011
This free event is ticketed. Please RSVP here.
Trocadero Projects and Environmental Films Australia have teamed up to bring an environmental cinema experience to Footscray!
Grab a beanbag and a gelato for the Victorian premiere of Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire by Clancy Walker and Adam Nye, along with local short Outpicker, introduced by filmmaker Le Luo.
Attendees will be welcome to take home a cutting or plant, generously donated by our visitors and Newport Lakes Native Nursery. It will also be the last day to catch our Trocadero Exhibition in Gallery 3.
Doors open at 18:30, with the Film Program starting at 19:00.
The Films.
Outpicker (2023)
Le Luo | 14‘
An award winning short, this fan favourite is a sweet and inspiring documentary following a queer Chinese immigrant as she finds a sense of belonging in the Australian landscape through litter-picking.
With an introduction by Le Luo.
Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire (2023)
Clancy Walker and Adam Nye | 47’
Yana Djamaga Ganji is an Indigenous-led documentary that follows the Walbunja Rangers back out onto Yuin Country following the 2019 fires, as they work with cultural fire to heal both the coast and their people.
Walking alongside Elders and youngsters across luxury resorts to crown lands, this documentary follows the resurgence of cultural burning in Australia’s Southeast, addressing the ongoing mismanagement of Country and the misconceptions around cultural burning as an isolated practice.
As out-of-control fires begin to spark again across the Australian continent, this documentary offers a well-overdue look into the holistic approach of First Nations’ land management practices, ultimately encouraging others to understand, and help reclaim, the healing benefits of walking good fire for all Australian.
Location
Trocadero Projects
Level 1, 40 Leeds Street, Footscray VIC 3011
Gallery Hours | 12:00 - 17:00, Thursdays – Sundays
Venue information, including accessibility, can be found here.
About Trocadero Projects
Trocadero Projects is an artist-run initiative presenting a diverse and experimental program of exhibitions and events in Footscray since 2005. Run by an evolving collective of volunteer artists and arts workers, Trocadero strives to amplify the voices of emerging artists, support new creative outcomes and provide a welcoming space for the local community to discover and enjoy art. Learn more at trocaderoprojects.org.au.
Thanks.
The Environmental Films Australia is a 100% volunteer-run festival. Thank you to everyone who helped make this event happen.
Environmental Films Australia Team | Alex Riches, Alice Wu, Catherine Dunbar, Cathy Rodda, Chi Ngo, Connor Dragoi, Ellie Hansford, Freyja Gillard, Georgia Brogan, Helen Mayers, Janine Fabienne Fritschi, Jasmine Burridge, Kim Senior, Lachie Toms, Loren Kampers, Malvika Pandey, Matilda Brown, Matt Bray, Melissa Pineda, Michal Krawczyk, Peti Waretini, Phuong Nguyen, Qiran Wang, Saaro Umar Sagarika Bhatnagar, Simon Troon, Tor Evans
Special thanks to | Trocadero Projects, Andrée Ruggeri, Kindred Studios, West Gate Neighbourhood Fund, Newport Lakes Native Nursery
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