Come join us on Monday the 9th of November as we kick off our NAIDOC Week Celebrations with a screening of Bran Nue Dae at The Backlot Cinemas.

A Welcome to Country will be provided by Uncle Noel Nannup with catering provided by Kuditj Café. We will also have the incredible opportunity to be joined by Associate Director of the musical Bran Nue Dae as we gain an incredible insight into the true impact of the original 1990 musical set in Broome.

Bran Nue Dae is an Australian musical comedy-drama that tells the story of the coming of age of an Aboriginal teenagers on a road trip in the late 1960s. Featuring Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins, Jessica Mauboy, Dan Sultan, Rocky McKenzie and Geoffrey Rush this is a must see film.

About the Film

It’s the summer of 1969 and young WILLIE is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome, in the North of Western Australia – fishing, hanging out with his mates, and when he can, his girl ROSIE. However his mother THERESA has great hopes for him and she returns him to the religious mission in Perth for further schooling. After being punished by FATHER BENEDICTUS for an act of youthful rebellion, Willie runs away from the mission. But to where… he’s too ashamed to go home, it will break his mother’s heart. Down on his luck he meets an old fella, who he calls ‘Uncle’ TADPOLE, and together they con a couple of hippies, ANNIE and SLIPPERY, into taking them on the 2,500 km journey through spectacular landscape back to Broome. Willie learns the hard and funny lessons he needs to get home, all the while pursued by Father Benedictus. Arriving back in Broome, Willie wins the girl, convinces his mother that Broome is the place he should be, and discovers that the father he never knew he had is his journeyman companion all along – ‘Uncle’ Tadpole.