THE BOWRAVILLE MURDERS

— March 2022: The Bowraville Murders has been officially selected for the 17th edition of Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival, an Academy Awards-qualifying festival in New Zealand. Doc Edge will be held in Auckland, Wellington, and Online in June 2022 with the exact dates/venues to be confirmed.

— The Bowraville Murders wins the Special Jury Award at the 2022 FIFO film Festival

— The Bowraville Murders is a finalist in the 2022 Feature Documentary category of the 2022 AIDC Awards

Three murdered Aboriginal children… An investigation marred by racism… A 30-year battle for justice…

Directed by Allan Clarke
In selected cinemas from September 2

The Bowraville Murders, a feature documentary which investigates one of Australia’s worst unsolved serial murder cases, will be released in cinemas nationally from September 2 with a special world premiere screening at Majestic Cinemas, Nambucca Heads, on Sunday August 29.

In 1990-91 three kids disappeared from an Aboriginal Mission on the same street in Bowraville, a tiny country town in northern NSW: 16-year-old Colleen Walker-Craig, 4-year- old Evelyn Greenup, and 16-year-old Clinton Speedy-Duroux. Evelyn and Clinton’s remains were all found off the same dirt road, as were the clothes Colleen was wearing on the day she disappeared.

There has always been one suspect – a local white labourer who was acquitted for two of the murders after a botched, racially biased police investigation. To this day, the man maintains his innocence while the families desperately want him retried.

For 30 years the families of the murdered children have fought an epic Davis-versus-Goliath battle for justice, taking them from a remote Aboriginal Mission all the way to the High Court of Australia.

At the centre of this extraordinary battle and awe-inspiring endurance are the mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles of the three murdered children who are now passing the torch to the next generation.

The Bowraville Murders takes viewers on an emotional roller-coaster ride spanning 30 years as we follow the families through the carousel of courts all the way to the High Court of Australia, and extraordinary archive footage that documents the story from the time the children went missing…exactly 30 years ago.

Directed by award-winning journalist and Muruwari and Gomeroi man Allan Clarke, Stefan Moore and Dan Goldberg are co-producers and co-writers on the project. Adam Kay and Susan Lambert are executive producers.

The project is financed by SBS with support from Screen Australia and Screen NSW as well as philanthropy through the Documentary Australia Foundation.

Press kit, stills HERE

Website click HERE

Confirmed cinemas:

Vic:

Cinema Nova
Classic Elsternwick
The Lido
Cameo Belgrave

NSW:

Dendy Newtown – from September 9 (tbc)
Randwick Ritz
Majestic Nambucca Heads
Majestic Sawtell
Majestic Kempsey

SA:

Wallis Mitcham
Wallis Mt Barker

WA:

Luna Leederville

Additional cinemas to be confirmed. Details of Q&A screenings with director Allan Clarke will be confirmed in the coming days.