Screening
Filmoteca
03-11-2024 / 18:00 h.
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Film Information
Year: 2022
Duration: 90'
Language: VOSC
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis
Brenda’s earliest memories evoke her childhood with a white foster family before she was abruptly returned to her Aboriginal family. Decades later, she feels disconnected from both sides of her life. The lingering traumas of her past drive her to seek out the foster family with whom she lost touch. On her journey, she discovers secrets hidden by the government and the possibility of forging deeper connections with her family and culture. The Last Daughter is a documentary that chronicles Brenda’s journey to uncover the truth about her past and reconcile the two families that have been part of her life.
Director
Brenda Matthews
Brenda Matthews is a writer, filmmaker and co-founder and director of Learning Circle Australia. When she was two years old, Brenda and her six siblings were separated from their parents. For the next five years, she lived with a foster family in a town on the outskirts of Sydney, unaware of her Aboriginal family’s existence. Years later, she was suddenly returned to her Aboriginal family. But after a while, she decided to seek out her foster family. Her first book, titled The Last Daughter, chronicles Brenda’s journey to uncover the truth about her past. Brenda makes her directorial debut with The Last Daughter, a film about her life that premiered in multiple Australian cinemas and on Netflix in mid-2023, to critical acclaim.
Nathaniel Schmidt
Nathaniel Schmidt is an Australian-American director who spent six years in Minneapolis, shooting a series of stories about the Midwest, where he directed the documentary short Ice Ball (2021), which won the Best Documentary Award at the Minneapolis International Film Festival. The Last Daughter is his first feature film.
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