Ranger documentary in FRAIM as finalist

A seven-minute documentary about the Nyangumarta ranger team was shortlisted for an Indigenous Community Television (ICTV) Video Award at the biennial Festival of Remote Australian Indigenous Moving Image (FRAIM) in October last year.

Recognised in the Best Our Way Video category, Nyangumarta – From Desert to the Sea documented the skills of a First Nations ranger group and highlighted fire management, feral animal control, fauna and flora monitoring, weed management, water monitoring, cultural heritage protection, collecting and transferring Traditional Ecological Knowledge and tourism development.

It was screened at FRAIM Film Festival in Alice Springs with other ICTV Video Award finalists and streamed on ICTV Play.

FRAIM is a gathering of First Nations video-makers from around remote Australia for three days of workshops, peer-to-peer sharing, showcasing of work and discussions about issues specific to the Indigenous screen sector in remote areas of Australia.

The Nyangumarta rangers program operates with support from YMAC’s Land and Sea Management unit and was previously featured in Marrngumili Warrarn Muwarr Pirraja – Sharing Desert Stories, a documentary finalist in the Earth Futures Festival, covered in the last edition of YMAC News