Green Bush

Warwick Thornton | Australia 2005 | 26 min

Every night, Indigenous DJ Kenny hosts the Green Bush show for Aboriginal inmates and their families. Isolated at the station, he takes requests from those on the inside and out while at the same time coping with the results of a wild night outside and learning his place in the circle of violence.

Green Bush is based on Warwick Thornton’s real-life experience as a DJ in Alice Springs and celebrates an era of music, working for the cause and getting things done. But not in the way you would expect.

Green Bush made me a lot stronger as a writer-director.—Warwick Thornton

[Green Bush is] a film that crackles with the music of politics, humanity, ideas and humour as it tells the story of a man's daily struggle to sustain his fragmented community and keep the pain at bay.—Berlin International Film Festival award notes

Cast	Ted Egan Jangala - old man Tjipli Audrey Napanangka Martin - Rose David Page - DJ Kenny Leo Jampinjinpa Wayne - Steven
Release dates	January 2005, Sundance Film Festival
Video/DVD Release Date	January 2011
Awards	Panorama Best Short Film award: Berlin International Film Festival Best Fiction Over 15 Minutes, The Rouben Mamoulian Award, The SBS Language Services Award: 52nd Sydney International Film Festival
Rating	PG - Parental guidance
Language level	easy
Distributor	Flickerfest, Ronin Films
Soundtrack	A collection of Aboriginal music recorded in Alice Springs by CAAMA Music during the eighties and nineties.
Genre	Drama
Notes	Green Bush is part of the Dramatically Black series (an initiative of the Indigenous Unit of the AFC and SBS Independent). More movies by Warwick Thornton: - Photographic Memory: A Portrait of Mervyn Bishop (1999) - Country Song (2008) - Yeperenye Federation Festival: The Road Ahead Concert (2003) - Rosalie’s Journey (2003) Warwick Thornton recalls what led to Green Bush: “Where I grew up in Alice I was a DJ for a radio station. The station began a film unit and so I watched people pack cameras and equipment into cars and take off to make films. I was alone at the radio station and I thought that I really wanted to go with them. That’s how it started, I made a film called Green Bush which is basically about that time.” Green Bush marks Bangarra Dance Theatre’s David Page film acting debut in a leading role. The movie was filmed around Alice Springs, NT. Other films by Warwick Thornton: Pay Back (1996) Mimi (2002) Nana (2007) Dark Science (2008) Samson & Delilah (2009) Art + Soul (2010)
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