Power to Country
Short film Completed 2023
Director
Josef Jakamarra Egger
Producer
Andrea Distefano
Supervising Director
Genevieve Grieves
Co-producer
Maya Ghattas
Power to Country is an intimate portrait of Garrwa woman Shirley Simon, displaced by global shifts in climate and a lack of stable power. Shirley was forced to leave her family’s homelands on a beautiful island in remote Northern Territory because of energy insecurity but the place she escapes to, the nearby town of Borroloola, is also dealing with an energy crisis. As a strong matriarch, Shirley wants to ensure her descendants are connected to their country and culture — community-owned solar power might just be the solution she needs to return home.
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