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Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.
Cast: Michelle Lacombe, Olivia Patten, Wendy Playfair, Dacre King, Kristina Bloomstrand, Enid Freeman, Victoria Kennedy, Paula Maling, Phyllis Simpson, Sherre DeLys
Writer: Anne Pratten (Writer)
Cinematographer: Josie Keys, Jackie Farkas
Production Designer: Terri Kibbler
Editor: Anne Pratten
Sound Designer: Jane Stewart, Cate Cahill
Composer: Andrew Lancaster, Felicity Fox
Direction team: Christopher Gill (First Assistant Director), Michael Brogan (Second Assistant Director), Alison Wall (Third Assistant Director), Pru Donovan (Continuity), Cindy Mikel (Continuity)
Producers: Alison Wotherspoon, Anne Pratten
Production: Ronin Films, Australian Film Television and Radio School
