March 11 2021, 12:30 pm | BY Ricki Green | 1 Comment Taxi director Tristan Houghton has returned from a week-long trip to Western Australia to film content for the Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation and work on a special project as a result of the Taxi Film Production and Oombarra Production partnership.
The project enabled Houghton to share his filmmaking skills with young people in the community to empower them to share their stories and experiences with a wider audience, and is a project with personal significance for Houghton, who is a Yindjibarndi man himself. Taxi Film Production and Oombarra Productions joined forces last year with the intention of bringing more commercial screen projects to life through the unique lens of strong indigenous storytellers. In its first year, this intention is well and truly being realised through projects with organisations like Juluwarlu – a Yindjibarndi organisation established to record Yindjibarndi history, language and culture as told by the community’s elders, so that stories of country are passed on and the knowledge continues as a living culture.