Summaries

Follows the lives of seven Indigenous students as they leave home to spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar.

OFF COUNTRY follows the lives of seven Indigenous students as they leave home to spend a year boarding at one of the oldest and most elite boarding schools in the country, Geelong Grammar. From inside the boarding house, on the sports field and in the classroom we follow the 2020 school year as the boarding school is thrown into chaos as they tackle the pandemic. Wrestling with their conflicting identities as students move between boarding life and home life, OFF COUNTRY creates a historic record of one of Australia's key Indigenous education pathways and a complex portrait of what it is to be an Indigenous child in Australia today.

Details

Genres
  • Documentary
Release date Jul 6, 2022
Countries of origin Australia
Official sites SBS on Demand
Language English
Filming locations Geelong Grammar School, Corio, Victoria, Australia
Production companies GoodThing Productions Brown Cab Productions Letterbox Films

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 35m
Color Color
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 1080i (HDTV)

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