Documentary following female AFL hopefuls opens Darwin International Film Festival
A new documentary following four female Tiwi Island AFL hopefuls over a six-year period opened Darwin’s international film festival last night. The film called ‘Like My Brother’ explores what it costs to chase a dream.
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00:00While the Tiwi Islands are known for producing hotshot male footballers, the road for female
00:08players is far less travelled, but not for a lack of talent.
00:12You would have been quicker than any other girl that was in the draft.
00:17So imagine if you had a fancy indoor stadium and you were wearing shoes.
00:22A film crew follows four young Tiwi women as they leave the challenges of home life
00:27in the Northern Territory.
00:28Here, like, we do have a gym, but the dingoes have eaten the cushion off the bench press.
00:36Chasing their dreams to Melbourne to play in the Victorian Football League, with the
00:40crew documenting the many hurdles they have to jump.
00:44Systemic racism, pathways that are insecure, pathways that are there and then dragged away.
00:51So what this film is really, the biggest story is about who has the privilege to dream.
00:57But also capturing the many triumphs the girls experience along the way.
01:04And then bringing it all together in a film that breaks boundaries and opens doors.
01:10It's a good experience to see on TV, on screen, to say, you know, like, these guys lived away
01:17from home.
01:18How can we be like these guys?
01:20For every great footy player we see out playing, there's 10 to 20 more of the same calibre
01:26in community and we really need to unlock these pathways.
01:30The film releases in cinemas around the country on October 17, but before that it's made its
01:35way home to the Top End, opening Darwin's International Film Festival last night.
01:41So that's what made it so special, you know, this is where the story began and it's a full
01:46circle moment to be a part of that audience last night.
01:50A remarkable true story about four girls who dared to dream.