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Hunting | Swamp
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Best Editing | 2006 | Tania
Best Film | 2006 | Rolf de
Best Sound | 2006 | James
Best Direction | 2006 | Peter
Best Cinematography | 2006 | Ian
Best Screenplay Original | 2006 | Rolf de
2007 | Rolf de
Best Feature Film | 2006 | Rolf de
2006 | Rolf de
Best Film | 2006 | Rolf de
2006 | Rolf de
Best Motion Picture Foreign Film | 2007
International Competition | 2007 | Peter
Best Production Design | 2006 | Beverly
2006 | Rolf de
Budget 2,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 300,000 USD
The canoes in the film were made according to original tribal methods, using directions from tribal elders who had not made them for some fifty years.
The title "Ten Canoes" was inspired by a photograph shown to Director Rolf de Heer by Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. The picture was of group of ten native men in their bark canoes on the Arafura swamp. The photo was taken by anthropologist Dr Donald Thomson who worked in central and north-eastern Arnhem Land seventy years earlier during the mid-1930s.
This will be the first ever major Australian feature film completely filmed in an Indigenous Aboriginal language.
During shooting in the Northern Territory of Australia's remote Arafura Swamp, the crew required eleven crocodile spotters for safety of the cast and crew
On the morning of Rolf de Heer's departure for the location recce in to Ramingining in the Northern Territory, David Gulpilil came to see him. "We need ten canoes," said David. Rolf looked at him blankly. "We need ten canoes," David repeated. Suddenly Rolf understood that David meant this for the film. "David, we don't even know what the film is really about, how can we need ten canoes?". David looked at Rolf as the ignorant Balanda he was and left, re-appearing half an hour later with a photo, black and white, taken almost seventy years before. Rolf took one look at it and said, "You're right, we need ten canoes".
"The group: [all walking in a line] Canoeist: Everyone stop! [all stop and turn] The Storyteller: That one is Djigirr. Djigirr talk too much, but maybe he heard something. Canoeist: I refuse to walk at the end. Someone ahead keeps farting. The group: [laughter] Not me. Not me. Canoeist: It's you again. You're always so silent. Silent but deadly. Admit it. Canoeist: Alright, it's me. Canoeist: You're rotten inside. Canoeist: I'm rotten inside. Canoeist: You get to the end of line."
