Contact
Directed by: Bentley Dean and Martin Butler - Australia, France - 78 min.

In 1964 Yuwali was 17 when her first contact with white fellas was filmed. Now 62 she tells the story behind this extraordinary footage.

Her group of twenty were the last remnant aboriginal mob still living traditionally, without any contact or knowledge of modern Australia, in the remote Great Sandy Desert.

A huge space rocket test -Blue Streak- was to be fired in May 1964 at their home in the dry Percival Lakes. The authorities sent in patrol officers to evacuate anyone living there to protect them from rocket debris.

The days counting down to blast off drive the narrative of the film. Back at the Lakes, Yuwali gives a riveting account as she and her group are chased hundreds of kilometers around the desert trying to escape the 'devil men' in the ‘rocks that move’ (four wheel drives). The climax is both extraordinary and emotional.

5:00 pm
Sunday, August 29, 2010
The Goat Farm