![]() So all these diseases we are seeing there are predominantly diet-related. This is a dry community, there’s no alcohol here, hasn’t been there for 40 years. their average life expectancy is about 55 years, so it’s 20 years less than we do. ![]() (Footage ends)ĭAMON GAMEAU: People in the APY Lands, I think, live. (Footage of Damon and nutritionist driving) Damon: It’s not just saying fizzy drinks are bad – drink water but understanding why, especially regards kidneys and Type 2 diabetes and what not. ZOE TUCKWELL-SMITH, WIFE: And that image stayed with him, and little did he know at the time how pertinent it would be to his unfolding story around sugar, down the track. when I’d seen how much Coke people were consuming and that kind of really shocked me But I felt the magic of that, and the simplicity of it, and that it just made me feel different. I was only 23 and it blew my mind, because I'd never experienced something like that. LAUGHSĭAMON GAMEAU: To go and spend time with him and live with his family and live off the land and hunt. (Excerpt from ‘The Tracker’) David Gulpilil: Them blackfellas – they probably cooked him and ate him. (Excerpt from ‘The Tracker’) David Gulpilil: I respect Aboriginal law as much as you respect whitefella’s law – maybe moreĭAMON GAMEAU: It was the first time I'd ever met an Aboriginal man and was just completely captivated with him and his stories. ZOE TUCKWELL-SMITH, WIFE: When Damon was very young he did “The Tracker” with David Gulpilil and they had a really close connection. The first time I went out there I found it really overwhelming I felt that I didn't belong there and I still get a sense of that when I go to the APY lands that you do feel honoured to be allowed to be there because it is, a very strictly, tightly controlled Aboriginal space. Where we’re going to, in Pipalyatjara, that’s maybe 800 ks south-west of Alice so it’s a long way inland. You are just in this enormous expanse and there's something quite spiritual about that, I think. (Footage of Damon and nutritionist driving)ĭAMON GAMEAU: The Australian outback is the last true cathedral on earth. And now in his new role as a film director, he’s helping to make a difference. After making a film about sugar, he’s hooked up with a community in Central Australia that’s tackling health problems. But now Damon Gameau is playing a very different role. Tonight’s program is about a friend of mine, a film and television actor I was very lucky to direct in the film Balibo and the TV show Barracuda. ROBERT CONNOLLY, DIRECTOR: Hello, I’m Robert Connolly. ![]() That Sugar Film | One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar.ĪBC News Article | That Sugar Film documentary maker Damon Gameau pays back Indigenous health initiative The Mai Wiru Sugar Challenge Foundation | The Foundation works with the community to remove as much sugar from the stores as is possible and collaborate with the people of the APY lands to take control of their own health. The man in charge of Mai Wiru was John Tregenza and he allowed Damon Gameau to film on the basis of 'Ngapartjia Ngapartjia' - that he would give something back.Īfter government funding was withdrawn from Mai Wiru, Damon Gameau has kept his promise and used the success of his documentary to support John Tregenza and the Good Food project, recently taking two nutritionists and a healthy eating plan to Pipalyatjara, an alcohol-free community 800 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs. While making the documentary, Gameau went to Central Australia to learn about an Indigenous initiative aimed at reducing the disastrous health effects of the modern diet in remote communities. Gameau's interest in diet first came to public attention when he became his own 'lab-rat' by testing the effects of massive sugar consumption on his own body and turning it into Australia's most successful documentary -That Sugar Film. We travel with filmmaker and actor Damon Gameau (The Kettering Incident, Balibo, Love My Way, The Tracker) as he repays a debt of knowledge by helping to revitalise an Indigenous community's healthy eating initiative.
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