Off Country
Covid-19 has shut the school down and all students are remote learning. For Tahlia, lockdown brings her closer to her family in Darwin, but for Sunny it puts his year 12 exams under more pressure.
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.
Primary Title
- Off Country
Date Broadcast
- Thursday 17 August 2023
Start Time
- 19 : 30
Finish Time
- 20 : 00
Duration
- 30:00
Series
- 1
Episode
- 3
Channel
- Whakaata Māori
Broadcaster
- Whakaata Māori
Programme Description
- 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.
Episode Description
- Covid-19 has shut the school down and all students are remote learning. For Tahlia, lockdown brings her closer to her family in Darwin, but for Sunny it puts his year 12 exams under more pressure.
Classification
- PGR
Owning Collection
- TV & Radio
Broadcast Platform
- Television
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- No
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
- Aboriginal students
- Aboriginal Australians--Education
- Geelong Grammar School--Case studies
- Education--Australia
- Boarding schools--Australia
- Indigenous peoples--Education
- Documentary television programs--Australia
Genres
- Documentary
Contributors
- John Harvey (Director)
- Rhian Skirving (Director)
- Charlotte Wheaton (Producer)
- Nick Batzias (Producer)
- John Harvey (Producer)
- Rhian Skirving (Producer)
- Virginia Whitwell (Executive Producer)
- Tom Zubrycki (Executive Producer)
- Sunny Handy (Subject)
- Xyz King (Subject)
- Chloe King (Subject)
- Marlley McNamara (Subject)
- Tahlia See (Subject)
- Jaycee Sellings (Subject)
- Zoe Walters (Subject)
- Brown Cabs (Production Unit)
- Letterbox Films (Production Unit)
- GoodThing Productions (Production Unit)
- Screen Australia (Funder)
- National Indigenous Television (Funder)
Subjects
- Aboriginal students
- Aboriginal Australians--Education
- Geelong Grammar School--Case studies
- Education--Australia
- Boarding schools--Australia
- Indigenous peoples--Education
- Documentary television programs--Australia