Wardbukkarra: The First Song. How today’s Bininj Aboriginal people of central western Arnhem Land discovered music, told through their epic and ancient Dreamtime story of the struggle between good and evil. Wadbukkarra is a 13 minute documentary film Sutton Grange Films recently produced in association with Manmoyi Music and Skinnyfish Music for Screen Australia's Songlines On Screen initiative, commissioned for broadcast by SBS/NITV. We’re pleased to announce that the first transmission is slated for Sunday 3 July 2016 8.30pm on NITV.

Yolngu song men trace the epic dreamtime story of their great nomadic warrior, Wurray, across the wilderness of North East Arnhem Land at the very top-end of Australia. Wurray is a 12 minute documentary film Sutton Grange Films recently produced for Screen Australia's Songlines On Screen initiative, commissioned for broadcast on SBS/NITV. We’re pleased to announce that the first transmission is slated for Sunday 3 July 2016 8.45pm on NITV.

Skinnyfish Music commissioned Sutton Grange FIlms to shoot a music video for "Parlangarri", the first single of B2M's debut album "Home". The clip was filmed entirely on 2-perf 35mm film - such a wonderful format.

The combined teams from Manmoyi Music (Terrah and Ross Guymala and Mark Gross) and the Milingimbi Arts and Culture Centre (Keith Lapulung Dhamarrandji, Joe Djakala and Paul Willliams) recently attended an intensive week-long work shop jointly held by Screen Australia and NITV in Sydney. It was a very constructive week in which to further develop the initial concepts for the Songlines on Screen projects Wurray and Na-yah-yungki . Both projects will be further developed still before submission, with production slated for September 2014.

Sutton Grange Films has had two fascinating projects in development over the past couple of months for Screen Australia's Songlines On Screen initiative. The first project is titled Wurray and is to be directed by by Keith Lapulung Dhamarrandji and is a co-production between the Milingimbi Arts and Cultural Centre and Sutton Grange Films. The second project is titled "Na-yah-yungki" and is a co-production between Manmoyi Music and Sutton Grange Films with Terrah Guymala directing. Paul Williams will be producing "Wurray". Mark Grose from Skinnyfish Music and Manmoyi Music will be producing "Na-yah-yungki".

Today we're delighted to announce that both projects have received funding from Screen Australia. Wurray will go directly into production after an initial development period. Na-yah-yungki has development funding and production funding is contingent on the success of this. Songlines On Screen is a joint initiative between SBS, NITV and Screen Australia. A week long series of workshops are scheduled in Sydney for the last week of June 2014. Both of these exciting projects will be featured on this site in blog form so you can chart their development from concept to final film. As Keith kept on saying "Yo! Manymuk!" (fantastic).

Sutton Grange Films has been commissioned by Skinnyfish Music and the Australian Federal Government to produce a series of short films documentaries and music videos in remote Northern Territory indigenous communities.

The music video clip for the single "Can't Change Your Name" from Tom E. Lewis' album Beneath The Sun (© Skinnyfish Music 2014)
Directed by Paul Damien Williams