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THE LANGUAGE PARTY 

A documentary film. Duration: 60 min in advanced production. To be accomplished in 2027. 

A white linguist, Steven Bird needs Miriwoong speakers to join his ‘Language Party’ in Kununurra, East Kimberley, but there seems to be only a handful of those who know words in this critically endangered language. With the help of Ian Gumbula, a YolÅ‹u mentor, the quest for storytellers turns into a wild goose chase through town camps and ancestral lands. The key to language revitalisation is yet to be discovered.

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