Outlawz - 'Pridelands'

Desert Pea Media is very proud to announce our new collaboration with the Murrawarri and Budjidi communities of Enngonia in Western NSW. This production brought together Elders, community members and young people to create a conversation about culture, country and sustainability.
This project was funded by the Environment Protection Authority, and project managed by WasteAid and Murrawarri LALC - part of an ongoing partnership with DPM to create awareness and conversation around caring for country. The project runs alongside community-focused waste management projects in Original Nations communities all over NSW.
‘Pridelands' was created in July 2018, the result of a five-day Desert Pea Media storytelling workshop. Co-written by, and starring, an incredibly talented group of Indigenous young people, community members and local Elders from Enngonia NSW - with support from DPM staff and local services.
Desert Pea Media projects involve a dialogue-based storytelling process that encourages participants to analyse 'the real', 'the ideal' and 'the bridge'. In simple terms this means critically thinking about how to create positive change for yourself, for each other and for our communities.
We are really proud of this production, and we hold the friendships and connections that formed during the project very close to our hearts. We felt deeply honoured to create, learn and share with the Enngonia community.
This project featured the musical direction and production of DPM producer Josh Nicholas (aka Hazy). We thank you brother for you artistic vision and hard work.
Special thanks to Project Manager, Tannia Edwards from the Enngonia Local Aboriginal Land Council, Kate Brown from Waste Aid, and all of the local community members for making us feel so welcome. Thanks once again to Tash and Danyelle from the EPA.
CREDITS - Toby Finlayson - Director / Writer / DOP / Drone Pilot Josh Nicholas - Music Producer / Drone Pilot / Facilitator Declan Furber Gillick - Co-Writer/ Facilitator Coedie McCarthy- Co-Writer/ Facilitator/ Camera 2 David Nicholas - Audio Mixing Darren Ziesing - Audio Mastering Genevieve Kaiser - Editor/ Grading/ Graphics Rachel Rowe - Producer / Business Manager Danyelle Carter & Tash Morton (EPA) Exec Producers.
LYRICS
Put ya marra’s up, Murrawarri, Budjidi nation
Yandabulla, Caywarra, Currawinya Station
Forced migration from colonization
Taken from my homeland, the place of my creation
I feel incomplete - feel like I’m at a stand still
Half my mob buried at Dead Man’s Sandhill
I feel incomplete - my river turned into a creek
My spirit’s in a language that I don’t know how to speak
My destiny at my feet, where the Warrego flow
Where the mud dries up because the river’s so low
But we know it fo’ sho’, Prideland with my brothers
We the Outlawz - hunting everyday for wild tucker
We the paddymelon, Goanna people that’s my dreaming
Feeding on the booglie , the goolberries, the emus
Porcupine, bush turkey, Googah, good eating
Hunting any season - yep for any reason
Strong and proud people, out here we must be
Trust me cousin, you on outlaw country
Summer gets dusty, winter gets cold
Sittin’ round the fire burning Gidgee coals
More trees, more breeze, more ease, more free
Don’t need concrete up under my feet
Got what I need, that’s my family
Young people, old people come stand up with me.
Don’t wait step up now, We the original traditional
spiritual Indigenous people with unconditional love -
So check it out what we startin'.
Waste management and a bush tucker garden.
A leader is passionate about freedom
Pay attention to role models, We need ‘em cant beat ‘em
so we breed ‘em and we teach ‘em
that knowledge is power
like the ancestors taught us
until their last hours
So what’s stopping ya - what the pressure is on top of ya
Enngonia be looking after country - 'yeah that’s proper bra'
Warrma, dropping this modern day corroboree.
When ancestors follow me my bloodline’s quality.
STARRING
Ethan Eulo, Gabe Smith, Garren Smith, Germaine Edwards, Jacqueline Campbell, Jahleon Smith, Jahqualyn Kelly, Katrell Monaghan, Raymond Barker, Sam Shillingsworth, Samuel Shillingsworth, Tannia Edwards, Wayne Kelly, Wesley Kelly, Natarlia Smith