
Two Laws
White people don't understand that there are two laws - white people have different laws from Aboriginal people. TWO LAWS is a film about history, law and life in the community of Borroloola in far North Queensland. The films offers viewers a remarkable and different way of seeing and hearing. Like the film, BACKROADS, it is one of the few productions at that time in which Aboriginal people had creative input. The impetus for TWO LAWS came from the community themselves. There was substantial collaboration with the film makers before and during the shooting period. It is one of the most outstanding films to be made during the 1980s. It is an historical analysis of what, nearly forty years later, is an increasingly contemporary question. Two Laws.
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- Language
- English
- reenactment
- land rights
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Australia
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereRMargaret Mead Film Festival4 Oct 1982
United KingdomGB
- PremiereEdinburgh International Film Festival22 Aug 1982
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival3 Jun 1982
- PhysicalPG23 Sept 2008
FranceFR
- PremiereCinéma du réel27 Feb 1982
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Two Laws was released on 27 February 1982.
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