First Nations Film Texts in English and Media
Professional learning for secondary English and Media teachers
When
Fri 6 December 2024
9am–3.15pm
First Peoples have claimed a space for ourselves within Australian screen culture, we have agency over how we’re represented and how we tell our stories.
Join us at ACMI for a rich day of learning that supports you to teach First Nations film and media texts with cultural sensitivity and confidence.
First Nations curators, educators and filmmakers offer insights that build knowledge and understanding about culture, community and creative self-representation, providing context for afternoon workshops that focus on teaching First Nations texts in English and Media.
Join us afterwards for a free screening of Jub Clerc's Sweet As.
Our program
Session 1: 9am–11am
- a curator introduction to Blak Futures and First Knowledges, concepts explored in our special exhibition The Future and other fictions – Amanda Haskard, ACMI curator
- self representation in The Story of the Moving Image – Jenna Rain Warwick, ACMI First Nations curator
- exhibition visits
MORNING TEA: 11am–11.30am
Session 2: 11.30am–1pm
- building cultural awareness about teaching First Nations film texts – Rob Hyatt
- hear from artist and creative thinker – April Phillips
- approaches to teaching First Nations film and TV – Shelley Ware
LUNCH: 1pm–1.45pm
Session 3: 1.45pm–3.15pm
- Best practice teaching, appropriate and engaging film and media texts and helpful resources.
Stay around for a free film screening of Sweet As (Jub Clerc, 2022): 3.30–5pm.