''Zach's Ceremony'' is an Australian

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. It looks at the transition to adulthood from an indigenous cultural perspective. It features Zach Doomadgee and his father

Alec Doomadgee Alec Doomadgee is an Australian actor, television host and presenter. He is also an Indigenous Australian community leader, mentor and activist. Background Born and raised on the born and raised with his extended family on the Waanyi / Garawa L ...

About the film

The film looks at what it means to be an

indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

and Zach Doomadgee's cultural journey. Zach who is of indigenous and Caucasian descent is influenced by two cultures. It also looks at how Zach is affected by being one of the few Indigenous children at his Sydney school, being too dark. It also looks at his being too light-skinned when he visits his father's community in far-north Queensland. Alec Doomadgee played a major part in the film in both direction and production. The film was shown at New York's Margaret Mead Film Festival. The film was begun in 2009 when Zach was aged around 10.

Theater screenings

It was announced by FilmInk that the documentary would open across Australia from Thursday 30 March 2016, and screen at Cinema Nova in

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Awards

At the

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, ''Zach's Ceremony'' along with Brendan Shoebridge's film, '' The Bentley Effect'' took the top awards.

was also winner of the Festival's Best Documentary Award. It also won Best documentary awards at both the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Sydney Film Festival.''FilmInk''
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Documentary films about Aboriginal Australians 2016 documentary films 2016 films 2010s English-language films