Australians are making more films than ever before. So why is it so hard to find them?
In the Sydney writer and director Imogen Thomas’s feature film Emu Runner, audiences see the world through the eyes of an Indigenous girl, Gem Daniels. The nine-year-old Ngemba girl idolises her mother, who knows all about country: the animals, the trees, the stars. When her mum unexpectedly dies, Gem bonds with her totem animal, a wild emu.
The film has achieved much with materially little, built on an “ultra-low budget”, says Thomas, including two crowdfunding campaigns and “the goodwill of many people”. Featuring the debut performance of Rhae-Kye Waites, who was 11 at the time the film was made, alongside the well-known actor Wayne Blair as her father, Emu Runner was shot on location at Brewarrina in north-western New South Wales.
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