LIGHT FROM THE SHADOWS
2012/ 26 min
Writer/Director: John Harvey
Danny Eastwood is an influential and groundbreaking Australian Indigenous artist who has been working in the Blacktown community for over 30 years. At 68 years old he has retired 3 times – but unable to say no, Danny finds himself continuing at a tireless pace teaching art classes throughout his community with inmates, Elders and school kids.
Danny is a prolific and diverse artist practicing as a cartoonist, illustrator, and painter. Each fortnight Danny has to complete a cartoon for The Koori Mail – something he’s been doing for the last 20 years. In between these deadlines he travels across Mt Druitt and Sydney teaching art to inmates from Long Bay jail, Elders, school kids and community groups, as well as working on new public art works
Light Into the Shadows gives us an intimate and informative insight into Danny, his politics and life. The documentary includes interviews with Kirstie Parker – Managing Editor of the Koori Mail, Pam Eastwood, Danny’s wife, and academic Prof. Larissa Behrendt.
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