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Wrong Kind of Black, originally titled Maybe Today, is an Australian four-part

telemovie, web series, and on streaming services. It was created, written and narrated by the Aboriginal Australian author, storyteller, and inaugural Australian Children's Laureate (2012–2013), Boori Monty Pryor, on whose life it is based. It is directed by Catriona McKenzie
.

Synopsis

Described as a comedy drama,

Palm Island.[1]

Pryor later became an author, storyteller, and was the inaugural Australian Children's Laureate from 2012 to 2013.[3]

Cast and characters

Indigenous actor Tom E. Lewis plays Pryor's father,[2] while Lisa Flanagan plays his mother.[4] The young Boori and his brother Paul are played by Nihil Yasserie and Christopher Ketchup, who have no training as actors.[5]

Damian Walshe-Howling, Jacek Koman, Colin Lane, Toby Truslove and many others appear in Episode 1.[6]

Production

The series was originally titled Maybe Today, with the project funded by

Film Victoria.[5]

It is directed by Catriona McKenzie,[3][5] produced by Melanie Brunt, Kelly West and Andrea Denholm, and made by Princess Pictures.[4] It was co-written by Pryor and Nick Musgrove, and Pryor narrates the story.[4][8] The total length is an hour.[2]

Filming was done in Townsville and Melbourne, with only a week in each location.[5]

Themes

There is comedy, drama, tragedy, music and 1970s fashion and disco life in the film, but its underlying theme is political, showing the extent of overt racism in Australia at the time.[5][9]

Release

The Wrong Kind of Black was first shown to a live audience as part of "Series Mania Melbourne" at the

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) on 19 July 2018, premiered on 5 August on ABC iview as a four-part series, and was shown as a one-hour telemovie on ABC Television that same evening.[5]

The series was picked up on 6 November 2020 by Netflix for international distribution.[10]

It is also archived on and available from National Film and Sound Archive, in one of its curated collections.[4]

Episode list

All episodes were released on 5 August 2020, and were named as follows:[6]

  1. Hedging Your Bets
  2. Lover Not A Fighter
  3. Trouble Makers
  4. Story Keeper

Reception

The series received accolades in The Guardian for its sense of humour, handling of issues surrounding racial violence, and scripting.[11]

It was nominated for an

International Emmy Award for Best Short Form Series,[12] and won the Grand Jury Award at the 2019 Melbourne Web Series Festival.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Wrong Kind of Black (M)". Deadly Story. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Zeims, Mitch (23 July 2018). "Review: Aboriginal Storyteller Boori Monty Pryor on being the Wrong Kind of Black". The 8 Percent. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Pryor, Boori Monty (1950–?)". Indigenous Australia.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Wrong Kind of Black". National Film and Sound Archive. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Keast, Jackie (19 July 2018). "Catriona McKenzie on the 'brain cracking' Boori Monty Pryor and 'Wrong Kind of Black'". IF Magazine. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Australian Television: Wrong Kind Of Black: Episode guide". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Screen Australia and ABC bankroll five new iview series to tune of $1.5 million". IF Magazine. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  8. ^ Keast, Jackie (12 November 2020). "Netflix picks up 'Wrong Kind of Black'". IF Magazine. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  9. ^ Korff, Jens (2020). "Wrong Kind of Black (Film)". Creative Spirits. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  10. ^ Casey, Moore (1 November 2020). "Limited Series 'Wrong Kind Of Black' Coming to Netflix in November 2020". What's on Netflix?. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  11. ^ Latimore, Jack (5 August 2018). "Wrong Kind of Black: Boori Monty Pryor's quirky web series a return to 70s Australia". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  12. ^ Apostolou, Natalie (20 September 2019). "'Safe Harbour', 'Wrong Kind of Black' and 'The Cry' up for International Emmy Awards". Retrieved 5 June 2021.

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