The Sapphires - trailer

AUSTRALIAN RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2012
NEW ZEALAND RELEASE DATE: Oct. 4, 2012
FB: http://www.facebook.com/TheSapphires
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE: August 2, 2012 at Melbourne International Film Festival
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/film...
The Sapphires is set in the heady days of the late '60s when four young, talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission, are discovered by an unlikely talent scout. Plucked from obscurity and branded as Australia's answer to The Supremes, The Sapphires grasp the chance of a lifetime when they're offered their first real gig - entertaining the troops in Vietnam. For the girls, a whole new world of friendship, love, war and soul opens before them.
The Sapphires is an adaptation of the hugely successful Australian stage musical of the same name, and is inspired by the remarkable true story of writer Tony Briggs' mother and her family. It stars AFI Award winner Deborah Mailman and Australian singer Jessica Mauboy alongside Bridesmaids actor Chris O'Dowd, and features an unbeatable soul music soundtrack. Destined to be a smash Australian hit, The Sapphires boasts a great story full of love, laughter and tears, set against the backdrop of the social upheaval of the 1960s, with wonderful performances from the entire cast.

• Category

  Film & Animation

[yoo toob]

Saw this yesterday, these women are knockout actors with killer voices. I think the best summation I heard was "This is like DREAMGIRLS meets THE COMMITMENTS meets GOOD MORNING VIETNAM meets RABBIT PROOF FENCE. The stories are rich, but it is utterly accessible. The story of racism in America is widely known, but what Aborigines faced in Australia is horrifying and bizarrely inhuman. HUGE THUMBS UP!

[birdstuckinchimney]

You're correct about Aboriginal and Native American,(and NZ Maori) having more in common with each other than they do with Black Americans, but don't totally right of the commonality of all these groups. Our history of being a minority group surrounded by a racist dominant culture still gives us all a shared understanding and empathy for each other.

[cand7e7ack]

"have you pressed the on and off button again"

[birdstuckinchimney]

Its sad that you view supporting the rights of women, and supporting the rights of other minority groups, as mutually-exclusive....

[jerramy]

I wonder when the shared minority of supressed womanhood will finally give us the strength and solidarity to convince men that our contribution to society is more than sex and housework and child rearing. And that male physical strength is no longer needed in modern society. I get pissed off when minority groups complain about discrimination, when women have been descriminated against throughout history.

[mangarda]

....There was never a "let's pack our bags and move to Alaska" moment, and there was not a conscious understanding that they live in a different continent from their ancestors (unlike the European settlers, who knew very well that they didn't belong there). To an indigenous tribe member in (what is now known as) the Americas, they are home.

[mangarda]

That depends on what you mean by "native." Of course the tribes of the Americas didn't just spring out of the ground that they stand on, none of us did. But the movement over the land bridge was not so much 'traveling,' but just a natural spread of the inhabited land as populations grew and villages were settled further and further yonder, over thousands of years...

[Bonnie Sea Jay]

It's called "Land of 1,000 Dances"--originally by Wilson Pickett. Great song!

[Keysa Jackson]

Aboriginal culture dates as far back as 60,000+ years...so if thats not indigenous...then idk wtf is!!

[maile1974]

Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances

[kunjidee]

oh yeah baby...can't wait to see this!!!

[Frank Gerlach]

Try Credence Clearwater Revival. Thats the ones that sang it first.