Prime Mover is right out of the traps but I missed First Contact at the last Brisbane Film Festival.
It's about British and Australians scouting a zone for rocket tests in 1964 when out of the desert and out of history (yes a very western view, but I am western!) walked a group of indigenous tribes people who had has NO contact with western society EVER.
Some of the footage is genuine footage taken at the time.
This is the story, mostly in their own words of those people.
One reviewer desribed it thus: "Contact could be the most profoundly-moving film this country has ever made; the film the 'Sorry Generation' deserved; the personal story of displacement and forced detachment that will burn into the fibre of our national identity the reality behind this countries shameful treatment of its indigenous people. —Simon Foster, SBS Film"
Prime Mover is about a young guy who wants to be a trucker. As he begins to live his dream, reality starts to give him the bill.
It has been compared to films such as They Drive By Night in its depiction of working people dragged into cohabiting with criminals to survive. But written over this is the emotional story of a love affair and the magic you see in someone when you meet them.
