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1986 / 86 minutes
- Directed by
- David MacDougall Judith MacDougall
- Country of production
- Australia
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A true story of a country family’s gradual involvement and growing passion for ‘picnic racing’. Sunny Bancroft is an Aboriginal cattle-station manager in New South Wales. With his non-Aboriginal wife Liz, two daughters and Liz’s mother ‘Tex’ he searches for a winning horse to triumph on the local circuit — but things don’t always go his way. Filmed as it happened, the events were later fashioned into a narrative in Sunny’s distinctive story-telling style. A film about Australian rural society and one Aboriginal man’s determination to succeed.
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- Region
- Australia
- Country
- Australia
- Keywords
- Rural Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Animals