Japarta

Directed by Ann McGrath

A Japanese student is tasked by Gurindji Elders in the Northern Territory to take their story to the world.

The story of a Japanese scholar, Minoru Hokari, who, before his death in 2004 at the age of 32, achieved work which today commands an ever-widening audience. It is a story of cross-cultural understanding, how Gurindji Elders in the Northern Territory tasked Minoru to relay stories from their culture to a wider world.