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Building capacity or burning out? Supporting indigenous performing artists and filmmakers

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posted on 2010-08-01, 00:00 authored by Hilary GlowHilary Glow, Katya Johanson
Public support for both Indigenous filmmaking and the live performing arts has a number of common features: at a national level the present schemes were introduced in the early 1990s, and both sets of schemes aim to improve the capacity of Indigenous practitioners to tell their stories to national and international audiences. Yet, in the late 2000s, Screen Australia’s support for filmmaking has contributed to well-known successes, whereas Australia Council support for performing arts has been withdrawn from two of the three state-based Indigenous companies. This article reviews the capacity-building strategies offered by the funding agencies to Indigenous filmmaking and performing arts. While the film policies appear to have been more successful than those in the performing arts, both sectors continue to experience obstacles to capacity-building for Indigenous practitioners and organisations.

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Journal

Media international Australia, incorporating culture and policy

Issue

136

Pagination

71 - 84

Publisher

University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies & Art History

Location

St Lucia, Qld.

ISSN

1329-878X

eISSN

2200-467X

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Language

eng

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Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, University of Queensland, School of English

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