August 2016 - Zach's Ceremony

Review from Michael Scott on his Zach’s Ceremony experience.

The first thing I got told when I started teaching in the desert was the places I wasn't allowed to go. Law grounds, men's places, waved out of bounds with vague gestures. Just don't walk in that direction. Or that direction. They are places for the initiated. There are secrets and ceremonies there that are only for men's eyes. Don't even point a camera there. "If they could help all boys to grow into young men as aware and culturally conscious as Zach, it would do our country a world of good." Michael Scott (reviewer)

https://letterboxd.com/walypala/film/zachs-ceremony/

Through the eyes of a boy

Pro Bono Australia partnered with GOOD PITCH² to shine a light on powerful films that are addressing some of society’s most pressing issues. Aaron Petersen, director of Zach’s Ceremony, invites viewers to submerse themselves in Zach’s world and see it through the eyes of the boy. In the documentary a 13-year-old Zach Doomadgee says: “In Sydney they call me a blackfella, in Doomadgee they call me a whitefella. I don’t know who I am.”

https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2016/08/through-the-eyes-of-a-boy/