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 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
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| Release dates | January 2005, Sundance Film Festival | ||
| Video/DVD Release Date | not available | ||
| 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 (adult themes; my rating) | ||
| Language level | easy | ||
| Distributor | not available | ||
| Soundtrack | A collection of Aboriginal music recorded in Alice Springs by CAAMA Music during the eighties and nineties. | ||
| Genre | Drama | ||
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