The Last Trackers of the Outback (2007)
December 28, 2007Release Date

The Last Trackers of the Outback (2007)
December 28, 2007Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Ian Ayres
The photographer

Deanne Beecheno
Sarah's Mother

Ella Cretenden
Sarah

Teddy Jangala Egan
Self

Vanessa Escalante
Self / Writer

Mitjili Napanangka Gibson
Self

Dennis Kreusler
Sarah's Father

Alan Jupurrula McMillan
BIlly Benn

Mary Jane Morton
Mitjili's daughter

George Musgrave
Self

Lemiah Japangardo Woods
Young Teddy Egans

Éric Ellena
Director / Writer

Jérôme Rossi
Composer

Clara Ott
Editor
Details.
Wiki.
The Last Trackers of the Outback is a 2007 documentary film about Aboriginal trackers in Australia.
The documentary, co-directed by Eric Ellena and Vanessa Escalante, won the Public's Choice Award at 2008 FIFO – Pacific International Documentary Film Festival of Tahiti.
The films tells the story of the last of the native Aboriginal trackers in Australia and documents their unique tracking capacities and the usefulness of their tracking skills, for example in cattle breeding and in police investigations. The film explores the unique skills of these trackers and the importance to understand and record this knowledge before the great trackers disappear and take their secrets and extraordinary skills with them. Featured in the documentary are some of the last great trackers of the outback such as Tommy George.