Redfern now essay

Redfern Now was directed by a group of experienced Aboriginal people in the industry including Rachel Perkins, Catriona McKenzie and Leah Purcell. Wayne Blair, the director of award- winning Australian film The Sapphires, was a particularly notable director involved in Redfern Now.

Cobby-Eckermann uses separate, repeating ideas of Geometry to show her double consciousness in Circles and Squares. Similarly, Perkins shows the double consciousness of Joel through the national anthem in Redfern Now: Stand up.

Leah Purcell, who worked alongside Jimmy McGovern in the screen writing process. The screen writing process itself took place over 9 months, as McGovern work shopped with five Aboriginal writers. The series was based on truth according to McGovern who said, ‘the actual writing was their responsibility totally.

How do the episode 'Redfern Now': Stand Up and the poetry of Ali Cobby-Eckermannn (Circles and Squares and Table Manners) explore the idea of belonging in modern Australian society? Humans are made to want to belong and fit in with each other, however, it is not as easy as it seems. ‘Redfern Now: Stand Up’ was directed by Rachel Perkins in 2012.