Directed by Charles Chauvel (1897-1959), Jedda was filmed on location in the Northern Territory and starred Ngarla (Rosie) Kunoth, a Central Australian Indigenous woman, as Jedda, and Robert Tudawali, a Tiwi man from Melville Island, as Marbuck.

Why was Jedda such a significant film?

Jedda is probably Charles Chauvel's best film, as well as his last. It is historic both for being the first colour feature film made in Australia, but more importantly, because it is arguably the first Australian film to take the emotional lives of Aboriginal people seriously.

When was Jedda filmed?

Jedda was filmed in arduous conditions in central Australia from mid-1953 (the stirring finale was refilmed near the Blue Mountains in NSW when the original footage was destroyed in a plane crash) and the transfer to digital video format was not without similar challenges.