Saturday Screening: She Who Must Be Loved
Screening will be preceded by short film Finding Maawirrangga (2017)
Freda Glynn, subject of the Australian documentary She Who Must Be Loved by Erica Glynn. Photograph: Kathryn Milliss/Supplied: Adelaide Film Festival
She Who Must Be Loved (G) is a documentary telling the epic story of Alfreda ‘Freda’ Glynn, directed by her daughter Erica and produced by her granddaughter, Tanith Glynn-Maloney. Born under the Aboriginal Protection policies, in the early 1970s Freda channelled her formidable energy into establishing the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) and later Imparja TV.
Not just a biopic, the film is part social history and even a detective story as Freda and the filmmakers investigate the mystery behind her grandmother's death. Freda Glynn is a 78-year-old Aboriginal woman, stills photographer, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, radical, pacifist and grumpy old woman, who in equal measure loves the limelight and total privacy.
The screening will be preceded by short film Finding Maawirrangga (G), directed by Dylan River. Dylan River is a featured artist in the National Gallery exhibition 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, currently on display at the University of Queensland Art Museum.
‘Deeply enjoyable – unpretentious and life-affirming. Audiences will leave touched by the sincerity of both the film and its subject’ – The Guardian
Saturday Screenings is a free program of film screenings presented monthly in partnership between the National Gallery of Australia and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
