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Toomelah is a 2011 Australian drama film written and directed by Ivan Sen and starring Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, and Michael Connors. It was shown at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on 11 May in the Un Certain Regard program, where it received a two-minute long standing ovation.
Nov 24, 2011 · Toomelah: Directed by Ivan Sen. With Daniel Connors, Christopher Edwards, Michael Connors, Dorothy Cubby. In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life.
After he's suspended from school, an Aboriginal boy (Daniel Connors) from a broken home tries to join the ranks of a gang of drug dealers.
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Oct 14, 2019 · The bulk of Ivan Sen’s cinematic oeuvre – documentary and fiction (not that there is always great disparity between the two) – converges around a set of core themes: the intractable legacy of British colonialism and racism; the complex inscriptions on, and meanings of, landscape; the resilience of Indigenous Australia; the ...
Sep 19, 2022 · Daniel (Daniel Connors) is a ten-year-old boy living in Toomelah, NSW. After being suspended from school for threatening to stab a classmate with a pencil an...
May 31, 2012 · The story centres on Daniel, a small ten year old boy who dreams of being a gangster. He is kicked out of school and befriends a local gang leader, until a rival...
May 13, 2011 · The limbo of life in a contemporary Australian aboriginal community - or ‘mission’ - is shown with sentiment-tinged realism in Ivan Sen’s Toomelah, which is entirely set in the kind of rural ...
