THE short film Dreamweavers – Gidja Walker OAM, by award winning filmmakers Heather Forbes-McKeon and Yanni Dellaportas, will be screened as part of the 2024 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.The 21-minute short by the Mornington Peninsula-based filmmaking duo was one of 50 chosen from 160 entries.Forbes-McKeon, co-director, creator and producer of the Dreamweavers series, says that she and Dellaportas were privileged to make film about Walker who is “known as an icon for her work and knowledge as an ecologist, ethnobotanist and Mornington Peninsula Indigenous advocate”.“Gidja combines her immense environmental knowledge alongside traditional owner’s relationships with her local environment,” she said.…
Friday, September 6
