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Ten Canoes (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• This will be the first ever major Australian feature film completely filmed in an Indigenous Aboriginal language.
  
  
• The title "Ten Canoes" was inspired by a photograph shown to Director Rolf de Heer by Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. The picture was of group of ten native men in their bark canoes on the Arafura swamp. The photo was taken by anthropologist Dr Donald Thomson who worked in central and north-eastern Arnhem Land seventy years earlier during the mid-1930s.
  
  
• During shooting in the Northern Territory of Australia's remote Arafura Swamp, the crew required eleven crocodile spotters for safety of the cast and crew
  
  
• The canoes in the film were made according to original tribal methods, using directions from tribal elders who had not made them for some fifty years.
  
  

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