Yumburra

With the proceeds of his bestseller, Pascoe purchased a property on the Wallagaraugh River, where he grows native grains and reinvents ways to process them. Filmmaker Grace McKenzie (Audrey of the Alps, SFF 2013) deftly captures Pascoe's stories of the land, his childhood, and Aboriginal ancestry. The bitter response by some in the media and academia to Dark Emu disturbed Pascoe and upended his family, but in the local waterways and mountains he's finding strength and the courage to move on. Pascoe is a mesmerising storyteller, his resonant words matched by exquisite imagery, shot by Grace and her father, industry stalwart Brian McKenzie (Winter's Harvest, Rouben Mamoulian Award winner 1980).