Strike Your Heart is a gentle portrait of change, its happiness and heartbreak for a boy, a family and a culture. It is 1967 and the referendum to allow the Commonwealth government to make laws for Australian First Nations people has been passed. New attitudes are being embraced by all and for a ten-year-old boy (Rami Rahman) living in the quiet coastal town of Broome, North-Western Australia, there are personal challenges that have to be faced - falling in love, his first kiss, heartbreak and departure from his close-knit family. Filmed on location in Broome, Western Australia - Wayne Barker’s homelands, with a cast of First Nations people from the region.
Cast includes Jimmy Edgar, Petris Torres, Attika Edgar, Alison Torres, Sylvia Clarke, Stephen ‘Baamba’Albert, Emmanuelle Torres, Brian T. Eastwell.
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ACMI Identifier
315382
Language
English
Subject categories
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Attitudes
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Children
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Civil rights
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Ethnic identity
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Legal status, laws, etc.
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Producers and directors
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Western Australia
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures
Aboriginal Australia → Indigenous peoples
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures in ethnology
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures, Australian
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Broome (W.A.)
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Indigenous peoples
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Motion pictures in ethnology
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Cross-cultural studies
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Cross-cultural studies
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)