WIRUN

Winner Best Film – First Nations Stories

Nominated Best Screenplay –
Chad O’Brien & Ebony McGuire

Winner Best Actress in a Short Film –
Ebony McGuire


Backyard Creatives acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands WIRUN was produced.

We acknowledge and recognise the Noongar people, whose language features in this film, and celebrate the continuing culture Indigenous people contribute to Australia.


WIRUN

short film, 9mins

A young Indigenous girl must dig deep to own her performance of a Shakespearean sonnet for her high school drama class in this powerful Australian short film.

Cast

Ebony McGuire
Ana Isabel
Coco Martel
Nazaree Dickerson

Produced by

Jemma Douglas
Ebony McGuire
Chad O’Brien

Story by

Ebony McGuire

Written by

Chad O’Brien & Ebony McGuire

Directed by

Chad O’Brien