Kwatye
Trisha Morton-Thomas | Australia 2007 | 5 min
A man wakes up hungover on the sofa from his previous night. Unwilling to move he lets his wife pick up the remote control and his 3-year-old daughter get him a glass of water with an aspirin.
It's the girl's birthday, yet the father seems to be oblivious of joining his wife's birthday preparations. The girl resorts herself to a special form of revenge. When the father is sick of her bringing him glass after glass of water he inquires where that water came from because it has a strange taste attached to it.
The revelation made the theatre roar in laughter...
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| Release dates | May 5, 2007 - Australia (World premiere on the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival) | ||
| Video/DVD Release Date | 2007, Bit of Black Business | ||
| Awards | not available | ||
| Rating | PG - Parental guidance recommended | ||
| Language level | medium | ||
| Distributor | Flickerfest | ||
| Soundtrack | Drapht | ||
| Genre | Comedy | ||
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| Find this movie | Indigenous film suppliers and distributors |
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Trisha Morton-Thomas Picture: www.abc.net.au
Still from the film 'Kwayte'.
"I got the idea for the film from a story my cousin told me. She had been sick with the flu and her two-year-old daughter kept bringing water into the room for her to drink. After a while my cousin called out to her mother to stop giving the baby glasses of water and then she got a nasty surprise. When I wrote Kwatye I decided to use a young couple in their late teens/early twenties, struggling to maintain their relationship and raise their child, because I don't believe there are enough stories in the Aboriginal community about this age group. I want the audience to think about the pressures young parents are under, and to realise that even though these young people have a child of their own, they are still children themselves and are doing the best they can."
— Trisha Morton-Thomas (source: programs.sbs.com.au)