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• Toronto 2015 (Premiere)
• AFM 2015 (Line up)

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Stephen PAGE
Writer(s) : Justin MONJO
Cast : Aaron PEDERSEN, Hunter PAGE-LOCHARD, Djakapurra MUNYARRYUN

Producer(s) : John HARVEY (Arenamedia)

A young man reconciles ancient tradition with the modern, urban world in this debut feature from Stephen Page, artistic director of Australia’s renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre.
This visually arresting film may be Stephen Page’s directorial debut, but Page is no stranger to the telling of stories through movement and images. As artistic director of the world- renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre, he has spent over twenty years interpreting the stories of Indigenous Australians for global stages. Now Page brings Bangarra’s outstanding dance work Spear to the screen.
Primarily utilizing gesture and dance, with minimal dialogue, Spear follows a young man named Djali (Hunter Page-Lochard) from the Australian outback to the streets of Sydney on his quest to understand what it means to be a man with ancient traditions in a modern world. Despite the fragmentation of Indigenous cultures, it is in the complex interconnection between places that Djali will ultimately discover his own power — a power linking past, present, and future.