World Wide Mind’s Warwick Thornton showcases ‘We Don’t Need a Map’ at Sydney Film Festival

World Wide Mind director, Warwick Thornton’s latest film ‘We Don’t Need a Map’ has been selected to screen at the opening night of this year’s Sydney Film Festival.

The beautifully crafted film investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, taking the audience on a journey through Australia’s cultural and political landscape.

We Don’t Need a Map delves into this five-star constellation’s astronomical, colonial and Indigenous history to the present day. For Aboriginal people the meaning of this heavenly body is deeply spiritual, a connection vividly expressed in stories from North East Arnhem Land, Katherine and the Central Desert.

Produced by WWM director, Brendan Fletcher (Mad Bastards) and shot by Warwick and his filmmaker son, Dylan River, this poetic essay-film features interviews with tattooists, rappers, astronomers, and bush toys. We Don’t Need a Map doesn’t shy away from the tough questions about the place of the Southern Cross in the Australian psyche.

For more of Warwick and Brendan’s work visit worldwidemind.com.