The Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival (SFNFF) will be held at Huskisson Pictures on 20-22 September and it will be the first ever First Nations film festival held on the NSW South Coast.

The programme for the three days includes four feature films, seven documentary films and thirteen short films and will feature live performances from First Nations artists.

The goals of the festival is to collaborate with local First Nations communities and to showcase the work of Indigenous filmmakers from around Australia, telling their own

stories, to Shoalhaven’s First Nations communities.

It also aims to broaden understanding amongst a non-indigenous audience of First Nations culture and will use any net proceeds from the festival to support local Indigenous students to become storytellers through film.

The films on the programme range from new to old and are directed by First Nations artists from the south coast and also from all over Australia.

The oldest film is from 1933 and is called Joe Anderson and features Anderson, a proud Dharawal man, speaking to the camera demanding respect, representation and justice for First Nations people.

There is also a film called Oola-boola-woo which is based on a dreaming story related to the five islands clustered off the coast of Port Kembla written by the children of Coomaditchie.

The full programme and ticketing information is available here.