Winner, Best Children’s Feature Film, 2007
Based on the story of the real life struggle of a boy named Denias, who came from a small village at Jayawijaya Mountain in Western Papua Island and now has a scholarship to attend senior high school in Darwin, Australia. This story, shot authentically against the real backdrop of Papua Island, reveals the beauty and hardship of emotions between spirit, dream and reality, humour and sadness, freedom and regret, enemy and friendship, revenge and forgiveness, efforts and result.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
