One Night the Moon
(2001, 57 min.) AUSTRALIA
Director: Rachel Perkins (Eastern Arrernte/Kalkadoon)
Producers: Kevin Lucas, Aanya Whitehead and Paul Humfress
Screenplay by: John Romeril and Rachel Perkins
Music by: Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly and Maireed Hannan
Actors: Kelton Pell, Kaarin Fairfax, Paul Kelly, Memphis Kelly, David Field and Ruby Hunter

A young girl in rural Australia, drawn by the moon, climbs out of her window to follow its light. When her parents check on their sleeping child, she is nowhere to be found. Based on the true 1930's story of Aboriginal tracker Riley, this musical drama poignantly interweaves the perspectives of the father who refuses to let the tracker onto 'his land' and the tracker who is led by the land.

Awards

Winner of the Gold Awgie Award 2001 (Australian Writers Guild's top honor) and screened at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

Image credit: Still from One Night the Moon