Her Name is Nanny Nellie 2023
Powerful and poignant, Her Name is Nanny Nellie offers us the rare privilege of bearing witness to a family reclaiming their history. In 1925, the Australian Museum commissioned three statues of ‘full blood ’Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be studied as examples of a ‘dying race.’ The woman was Nellie Walker, Irene Walker’s great grandmother and director Daniel King’s great, great grandmother. Now Irene is on a journey to retrace Nellie’s life and to reconnect the other families to their ancestors’ statues and re-display them, this time with their names, identities and dignity. This is far more than a symbolic quest, but an opportunity to change how we remember and represent, and to give the nameless names.
- Title: Her Name is Nanny Nellie
- Year: 2023
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Australia
- Studio: Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, National Indigenous Television, First Person Films
- Director: Daniel King
- Cast: Irene Ridgeway
- Crew: Daniel King (Director)
- Keyword: indigenous australians
- Release: Oct 22, 2023
- Runtime: 78 minutes
- IMDb: 0.00 / 10 by 0 users
- Popularity: 0
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Language: English
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