November 2010, Change Media’s Moogy’s Yuki wins 2nd Prize and Uncle Moogy wins Hero Award at the MyHero International Film Festival in Los Angeles

A great start of spring for Change Media: Our latest collaboration with Ngarrindjeri communities and Elder Major ‘Moogy’ Sumner, called Moogy’s Yuki [Moogy's Bark Canoe], has won the 2nd prize in the community film category at the International MyHero Film Festival in Los Angeles, selected from hundreds of entries worldwide.
Moogy’s Yuki follows Major Sumner during the making of the first traditional Ngarrindjeri / Boandik bark canoe on Boandik country in over 100 years. Along the inspiring journey, several members of the local Indigenous communities and environmental experts address issues around caring for country, environmental issues and cultural transmission of traditional knowledge.
Tallstoreez’ Change Media initiative produced this evocative 27min documentary, as part of their ongoing collaboration with Ngarrindjeri communities since 2009, with several new documentaries in production over the next three years. Their last project, Nukkan.Kungun.Yunnan – Ngarrindjeri’s Being Heard, has been nominated for the prestigious Banksia Environmental Awards 2010 and won the inaugural Kookaburra Awards 2010 for Outstanding Community Project.

And today it was announced that Major ‘Moogy’ Sumner has also won a Hero Award at the 2010 MyHero International Film Festival. The South East Natural Resources Management Board is supporting Moogy and Cyril to fly over to Los Angeles to represent the project at the awards ceremonies on November 19th and 20th.

Congratulations to everyone involved in making this project happen!