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Ngaire Pigram
Ngaire Pigram is an Australian actress. For her performance in the second series of '' Mystery Road'' she was nominated for the 2020 AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. Other screen performances include '' Sweet As'', '' Firebite'' and ''Mad Bastards''. Stage performances include multiple runs of ''Sapphires'', ''Bran Nue Dae'' and '' Cut the Sky''. Pigram is a Yawuru The Yawuru, also spelt Jawuru, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Language A Japanese linguist, Hosokawa Kōmei (細川弘明), compiled the first basic dictionary of the Yawuru language in 1988, a ... woman and is the daughter of Stephen Pigram. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pigram, Ngaire Living people Australian film actresses Australian television actresses Australian stage actresses Indigenous Australian actresses Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Road (TV Series)
''Mystery Road'' is an Australian television crime mystery series whose first series screened on ABC TV from 3 June 2018. The series is a spin-off from Ivan Sen's feature films '' Mystery Road'' and ''Goldstone'', taking place in-between the two. Aboriginal Australian detective Jay Swan, played by Aaron Pedersen, is the main character and actor in both the films and in the first two TV series, each of six episodes. Series 1 was directed by Rachel Perkins. Swan is brought in to solve a murder, with the local police officer played by Judy Davis. In Series 2, directed by Warwick Thornton and Wayne Blair, which began airing on ABC on 19 April 2020, Swan is brought in to solve a murder in a different location, with the "local copper" this time played by Jada Alberts. Both series were shot in northern Western Australia. Series 3, directed by Dylan River, is a prequel set in 1999, titled ''Mystery Road: Origin''. Mark Coles Smith plays a younger version of Swan. Plot Series 1 Taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Award For Best Guest Or Supporting Actress In A Television Drama
The AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television." The award is handed out at the annual AACTA Awards, which rewards achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films. From 2000 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards). When the AFI launched the Academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current prize being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. The award was first presented in 2000 as Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series until 2002, when the title wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet As
''Sweet As'' is an Australian coming-of-age drama film, directed by Jub Clerc and released in 2022. The film stars Shantae Barnes-Cowan as Murra, an Indigenous Australian girl from a troubled family who discovers a passion for photography while participating in a youth retreat. The cast also includes Mark Coles Smith, Ngaire Pigram, Carlos Sanson Jr, Pedrea Jackson, Mikayla Levy, Andrew Wallace and Tasma Walton. The film premiered in August 2022 at the Melbourne International Film Festival, where Clerc won the Innovation Award. It had its international premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the NETPAC Award for best film from the Asia/Pacific region.Christian Zilko"‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award" ''IndieWire IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus was predominantly independent film, although its coverage has grown to "t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firebite
''Firebite'' is an Australian streaming television drama series created by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher which premiered on AMC+ on 16 December 2021 and ran for 8 episodes until 3 February 2022. Premise Set in a remote mining town in the middle of the South Australian desert, the series centers around two Indigenous Australian hunters, Tyson and Shanika, who protect their home Opal City from vampires. Their lives are turned upside down when a former hunter from Tyson’s past shows up informing them the last vampire king has arrived with plans that will shift the balance in their war against the vampires. Cast * Rob Collins (actor), Rob Collins as Tyson Walker. A former Blood Hunter, and Shanika’s guardian. He uses Kangaroo Hunting as cover to hide hunting vampires. He acts immature when raising Shanika but is protective of her and keeps his community safe. He is skilled in using the Indigenous hooked boomerang in hunting vampires. His favorite song is 'Black Boy' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Bastards
''Mad Bastards'' is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Brendan Fletcher. Set in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the film uses mainly local Aboriginal people in the cast, and draws on their stories for the plotline. It is Fletcher's debut film and it premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Plot Years ago, TJ abandoned his wife and son, and as time passes his conscience tells him it's time he began facing up to his responsibilities as a father. TJ is an Aboriginal man living in Western Australia and has a weakness for alcohol and a habit of getting into fights. TJ's son Bullet is nearly as troubled as he is; at the age of 13, he's already been arrested for arson, and instead of serving a sentence in a juvenile detention home, he is released to the custody of Elders. Bullet is not anxious to reacquaint himself with TJ, but both realise they need to settle their scores with one another, and Bullet's grandfather Texas steps in to help. Cast * De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapphires
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminium oxide () with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, vanadium, or magnesium. The name sapphire is derived via the Latin "sapphirus" from the Greek "sappheiros", which referred to Lapis lazuli, lapis lazuli. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colors; "parti sapphires" show two or more colors. Red corundum stones also occur, but are called ruby, rubies rather than sapphires. Pink-colored corundum may be classified either as ruby or sapphire depending on locale. Commonly, natural sapphires are cut and polished into gemstones and worn in jewellery, jewelry. They also may be created synthetically in laboratories for industrial or decorative purposes in large boule (crystal), crystal boules. Because of the remarkable hardness of sapphires 9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, Mohs scale (the third hardest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bran Nue Dae
__NOTOC__ ''Bran Nue Dae'' is a 1990 musical set in Broome, Western Australia, that tells stories and of issues relating to Indigenous Australians. It was written by Jimmy Chi and his band Kuckles and friends, and was the first Aboriginal Australian musical. The name is a phonetic representation of "Brand New Day". Background and description The musical was originally directed by Andrew Ross and choreographed by Michael Leslie. It premiered at the Octagon Theatre in February–March 1990 as part of the Festival of Perth, and later toured nationally. The musical won the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards in 1990. The following year the published script and score won the Special Award in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. Theatre critic Katharine Brisbane wrote in 1999: Gail Mabo performed in the Sydney run of the musical in 1991. A 1991 television documentary ''Bran Nue Dae'' tells the story of the creation of the musical. The musical was revived for an Australian na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cut The Sky
Cut may refer to: Common uses * The act of cutting, the separation of an object into two through acutely-directed force ** A type of wound ** Cut (archaeology), a hole dug in the past ** Cut (clothing), the style or shape of a garment ** Cut (earthmoving), an excavation to make way for a transport route ** Cut (etiquette), a snub or slight such as failure to greet an acquaintance ** Cut (gems) ** Cut of meat ** Cutting agent, a diluent used to dilute illicit drugs Geography * Cut, Alba, Romania * Cut, Texas, an unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas * Cut, a village in Dumbrava Roșie, Neamț County, Romania * Cut River (Mackinac County, Michigan) * Cut River (Roscommon County, Michigan) * Cutral Có Airport, Argentina (IATA code CUT) * Cuts, Oise, France Computing and mathematics * Cut (logic programming) * cut (Unix), a command line utility * Cut, copy, and paste, a set of editing procedures * Control Unit Terminal, a kind of IBM display terminal for mainfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yawuru
The Yawuru, also spelt Jawuru, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Language A Japanese linguist, Hosokawa Kōmei (細川弘明), compiled the first basic dictionary of the Yawuru language in 1988, and followed it up with a comprehensive descriptive grammar in 2011. Country Their territory, much of it of open saltmarsh, encompasses the area from the eastern shores of Roebuck Bay south of Roebuck Plains through to the southern end of Thangoo Station and within 5 miles of Cape Villaret. Their inland extension ran close to ''Mandikarakapo'' (Dampier Downs). Norman Tindale's overall estimate of their territory posits a domain of roughly . Their neighbouring tribes were the Jukan to the north, and, running clockwise, the Warrwa northeast, the Nyigina on the eastern hinterland, and on their southern frontier the Karajarri, The border with the latter is marked by an ecological transition from the coastal saltmarsh plains to the dense, sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Pigram
Stephen Pigram (born 1960) is an Australian musician, songwriter and member of the Yawuru people. He has been a member of Kuckles (1981–82), Scrap Metal (1983–95) and the Pigram Brothers (1996–present). With his brother, Alan Pigram, and joined by Alex Lloyd, he worked on the soundtrack of ''Mad Bastards'', a film he co-produced with Alan, Brendan Fletcher and David Jowsey. Pigram released a solo album, ''Wanderer'', in 2013. Biography Stephen Pigram was born on 20 January 1960 and has performed together with his brothers, Alan and Philip, in Broome, since 1977. Their early groups were Crossfire and then Sunburn. Pigram was a member of Calypso and reggae band, Kuckles, formed in Adelaide in 1981 with Jimmy Chi on lead vocals. Other members were Mick Manolis, Garry Gower and Patrick Bin Amat. They disbanded late in 1982. The band co-created Chi's musicals, ''Bran Nue Dae'' and ''Corrugation Road''. Along with Alan and Philip, Pigram was a founding member of Scrap M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
