“We are Martu. We got everything we need out here.”
“We tell the stories of how our country is important, so our young people can look after it.”
A loving mum, a teenage son, a seemingly normal morning ritual. But what really happens before Mum wakes up?
With a history spanning more than 25,000 years, the Martu were one of the last Indigenous populations to come into contact with Europeans.
Twenty percent of Australia’s annual humanitarian arrivals call Liverpool home.
“This film, Mamu, it’s about right, it’s about wrong. It’s about the past and the future, the new and the old.” – Curtis
“If we haven’t said anything, no one knows we even have a story. But now we’re gonna say it, so it makes a difference.” – Lazare
Finding his voice, Urban Stories crew member Saif Jari talks about his experiences of making and sharing Villawood Mums
Perfecting the delicate roles and responsibilities of a dinner party host is, well, difficult.
Teens find devious uses for spark plugs, asylum seeker mums share their experiences and desert folk busk at Central Station.
The groups shared remarkable similarities but also the expected sense of bewilderment when a group of young Martu flew to Sydney earlier this year.
We met them at Fairfield, Western Sydney. We joked with each other – are we still in Australia?
There are a few things that separate the arrival of Maria and Zahoor at Villawood: ten years, a few policy reforms and two very large fences.
You’ve seen them in slow motion, in reverse… then you see them on the train. Do you say hello?
Urban Stories crew member, Anna Lam, attempts to progress beyond the traditional “community vs mass media” battlelines.
Country, music and painting stories. Take a 2 minute break and catch a slice of the great desert life!
Soccer, drums and dance meld in this 90 second romp through the Afro-Latino festival in Western Sydney.
Listen to OJ, a desert busker, serenade Sydney at Central Railway Station.
Meet the people behind the camera, as the Urban and Desert Crews exchange food and stories.
The abundance of untold local stories… highlight the need for locally-grown, cutting-edge media-makers. – Guido
