JAPARTA wins awards in esteemed US film festival!
22 May 2026
WINNER OF TWO AWARDS (AUDIENCE FAVOURITE and MOST INSPIRING FILM) plus four Honourable Mentions (Including in the Best Film category) at the esteemed TAC Film Festival in Eugene, Oregon, May 2026.
The story of a Japanese scholar, Minoru Hokari, who, before his death in 2004 at the age of 32, achieved work which today commands an ever-widening audience. It is a story of cross-cultural understanding, how Gurindji Elders in the Northern Territory tasked Minoru to relay their own view of their history to the wider world.
AVAILABLE NOW from Ronin Films - both the film and Minoru Hokari's book, Gurindji Journey: www.roninfilms.com.au/video/858/0/17544.html
PLEASE CONSIDER TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS through Documentary Australia to help us with marketing the film: documentaryaustralia.com.au/project/japarta/