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Stephen Maxwell Johnson is an Australian filmmaker, best known for his films Yolngu Boy (2001) and High Ground (2020). He is also known for directing Yothu Yindi's music videos in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
May 13, 2021 · Learn about the filmmaking journey, the inspiration and research behind making High Ground, a movie set in the Australian outback. The director shares his passion for the story, the culture and the actors in this exclusive interview.
Apr 12, 2021 · Listen to a Q&A with director Stephen Maxwell Johnson about his revisionist Western High Ground, set in Arnhem Land during the frontier wars.
Jan 27, 2021 · Yolngu Boy director Stephen Maxwell Johnson's first film in nearly two decades begins in post-World War I Arnhem Land, where the lush, almost primordial beauty of the natural landscape belies a festering tension between white settlers and the Indigenous people who have long called the region home.
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Jan 13, 2022 · A “Northern” is how director Stephen Maxwell Johnson describes his new film, High Ground, playing on the great American tradition of shoot-em-up cowboy movies we’ve come to know and love from Hollywood.
Feb 1, 2021 · High Ground, the long-awaited second feature from Stephen Maxwell Johnson (Yolngu Boy), opens with an extraordinary image: a vista shot of Nimbuwarr, a sacred rock in Arnhem Land, from high above, as a red sun declines behind it and insects buzz on the soundtrack like a piece by Alva Noto.
Feb 3, 2021 · High Ground might appear from the outset as a western, but the never-before-seen locations and suspenseful untold story are so unique that director Stephen Maxwell Johnson has a different term in mind.
