Sentence examples for indigenous films from inspiring English sources

"CROSSING TRACK: INDIGENOUS FILMS FROM AUSTRALIA," Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, at 70th Street.

But indigenous films captured 95percentt of Indian box office sales in 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The country's film industry is small but growing, though viewings of indigenous films are usually confined to theatres in the cities; in smaller towns and villages, film fare is likely to come from either Hollywood or India.

As the film festival season in the Gulf region drew to an end last Sunday in Dubai, filmmakers from the Arab world and industry-watchers hailed a new wave of indigenous films aimed at an audience accustomed to a mostly foreign blend of Hollywood and Bollywood movies with a dollop of Turkish soaps.

The American studios are keen to make money in India, but in a nation where $19 of every $20 spent at the box office goes to indigenous films, the studios are deciding to join Bollywood, not conquer it with their American-made fare.

Māoriland Film Festival co-ordinator Madeleine de Young says there has been a lot of conversation about Standing Rock within the Māori community and it was a "no-brainer" to include the RISE episodes about it in their programme of indigenous films, especially when she saw they were directed by Canadian Michelle Latimer whose work they have previously screened.

Yet according to Don Selwyn, this talent is yet to feed through into indigenous film.

Indigenous film has a long way to go before it can earn its keep.

But they have doubled in the past five years (as has indigenous film production, which withered in the repressive Suharto era).

Australian indigenous film-makers have other stories to tell; we should know soon whether Rachel Perkins's feel-good film, Bran Nue Dae, is to have a UK release.

"In the same way the ABC has an Indigenous film unit, we need the public broadcaster to [establish] a disability content unit.