About

Please note: at 12.15pm an in-person 'In Conversation' event discussing the film will follow this screening.

Stingray Sisters is a three-part documentary that tells the story of three Kunibidji sisters—Alice, Noni, and Grace Eather—and their fight to protect their homelands from the threat of seabed mining. In 2012, Paltar Petroleum applied for a license to begin exploratory oil and gas drilling (hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’) around the Maningrida coastline in Western Arnhem Land. The film follows the three Sisters who were born to an Aboriginal mother and a white father, and who navigate the complexities of their heritage and the ‘two worlds’ they must walk between. Raised in Brisbane, the Sisters return to their mother’s traditional Country at Maningrida to fight proposed petroleum exploration which would serve to destroy large parcels of land and sea, including sacred sites and waters. The Sisters story is one of resistance and resilience and the strength of Indigenous peoples who continue to protect Country at all costs.