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Mabo (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Mabo' is an Australian docudrama TV film, released in 2012, which relates the successful legal battle waged by Torres Strait Islander man Eddie Koiki Mabo to bring about native land title legislation in Australia.
Synopsis
'Mabo' tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander man who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of 'terra nullius'.
Cast
*Jimi Bani as Eddie Mabo
**Gedor Zaro as Young Eddie
*Deborah Mailman as Bonita Mabo (ne Neehow)
*Ewen Leslie as Bryan Keon-Cohen
*Tom Budge as Greg McIntyre
*Felix Williamson as Ron Castan
*Leon Ford as Henry Reynolds
*Lasarus Ratuere as Malcolm Mabo
Production
The film was written by Sue Smith, directed by Rachel Perkins and produced by Darren Dale and Miranda Dear, all of Blackfella Films, with the assistance of the ABC and SBS. It was filmed at Mer Island in the Torres Strait, Magnetic Island, Brisbane and Canberra.
Release
It premiered at the Sydney Film Festival 2012.Dalton, Kim [https://web.archive.org/web/20140427061553/http://blogs.abc.net.au/abc_tv/2012/06/speech-mabo-premiere-sydney-film-festival.html Speech: Mabo Premiere, Sydney Film Festival 2012], 7 June 2012, at ABC TV BlogDale, D., Perkins, R. [https://archive.today/20121202110834/http://www.sff.org.au/public/films/program/films-a-z/mabo/ Mabo] at Sydney Film Festival 2012
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