A frame from The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (2026).
Cast, The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (2026)

Lavinia Heffernon Napaltjarri

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From the Judges, on The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (2026)

From the Judges, on The Witchdoctor and the Windmill

Animation sequences, archival footage and a chorus of interviewees give this feature the texture of a life told properly, and the score carries it. The writing draws one artist's story outward into Aboriginal history, art history, culture and colonisation without losing sight of the woman at its centre. Panel members found it moving, educational and genuinely original, a portrait of a remarkable life that deserves to be far better known.

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