Product Overview
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SCREENER IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO CUSTOMERS RESIDING IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. ANY ORDERS FOR THIS PRODUCT THAT ARE PLACED FROM OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND WILL BE CANCELLED AND REFUNDED.
Preview screener for teaching and education staff to watch Sweet As to determine suitability for classroom curriculum.
SCREENING DATES
Friday 16 May (from 4pm) to Sunday 18 May (11.30pm).
SYNOPSIS
Sweet As is a film that celebrates that special Indigenous connection to Country – the term Australia's First Peoples used to describe the lands, waterways and seas to which they are inextricably connected. The term contains complex ideas about place, custom, language, spiritual belief, cultural practice, material and emotional sustenance, family and identity. Country embraces the seasons, stories and creation spirits. Country is both a place of belonging and a way of believing.
As seen in Sweet As, Country is also a place of healing – emotional, psychological and spiritual – for Indigenous people or, indeed, for anyone. We are on a journey, physical and profoundly personal, on a bus carrying Murra, Elvis, Kylie and Sean. Four unhappy and vulnerable teenagers take to the backroads and the awe-inspiring landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, each armed with a film camera. This is a road movie: an effervescent story of growth, acceptance and the journey towards finding oneself. With postcard-perfect shots of remote Western Australia and a road-trip-worthy soundtrack of all-Indigenous artists, Sweet As is a joyous, cinematic, life-affirming ride.
Running time: 87 mins
