David Gulpilil – magnetic Indigenous actor connecting two Australias

Melbourne International film festival celebrates an enduring career with Walkabout, Charlie’s Country, Ten Canoes and an important new film

David Gulpilil is the first Aboriginal person that I can remember.

As a Generation X kid in the anodyne, white European eastern suburbs of Melbourne, you didn’t (knowingly at least) encounter any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people on the trams or in the supermarkets in my part of the city.

Related: Walkabout rewatched – a wilderness of the mind as much as of the land

Related: Charlie's Country: Adelaide 2013 – first-look review

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