In Your Community
Bring this healing story to your community
Why?
Sharing this story will create empathy, awareness and understanding for First Nations People and their perspectives, and inspire your community to discuss our shared history and cultures.
Brenda invites you to watch her story, reflect on yourself, and respond in your own context.
Ways to screen the film
Bring the film to your community through screenings in your location or in a local cinema. Register below to access resources including discussion guides to reflect after watching the film.
In Your Location
Community Screening Licence
- Host Buys a Screening Licence Online
- Host Organises Venue & Internet Connected Screen
- Host is Permitted to Sell or Gift Tickets
- Optional Fundraising: Set Your Own Ticket Price
- Minimum Licence Size Applies
Screening Licences are priced per person, starting at a minimum audience size of 30. Each licence and minimum audience size apply to one location only.
| first 30 ppl | +1 person (over 30) |
| $90 | +$3 |
In a Cinema
Closed Group Booking
- Host Pays to Book Out the Cinema
- Host Liases with Cinema to Plan Event
- Tickets Sold (or Gifted) by Host
- Optional Fundraising: Set Your Own Ticket Price
- No Minimum Audience
Cinema on Demand
- Host Registers a Screening (No Upfront Cost)
- Fan-Force Books Cinema & Creates Event
- Tickets Sold (& Price Set) by Fan-Force
- Optional Fundraising: Fee Added to Ticket Price
- Pre-Sold Tickets Must Pass a Tipping Point
Closed Group Booking
- Host Pays to Book Out the Cinema
- Host Liases with Cinema to Plan Event
- Tickets Sold (or Gifted) by Host
- Optional Fundraising: Set Your Own Ticket Price
- No Minimum Audience
Cinema on Demand
- Host Registers a Screening (No Upfront Cost)
- Fan-Force Books Cinema & Creates Event
- Tickets Sold (& Price Set) by Fan-Force
- Optional Fundraising: Fee Added to Ticket Price
- Pre-Sold Tickets Must Pass a Tipping Point
Dear Australia…
We’re a nation of dual identity.
Blackfellas and Whitefellas.
I’m on a quest to help bring our two worlds together.
Two halves, that together, can create a powerful whole.
The Last Daughter isn’t about a change of plans, it’s about a change of heart.
From hurting to healing.
From rejection to belonging.
From disconnection to truth.
We all have a story that connects us to this Country.
In uncovering my own story, I found healing and a place to belong.
I don’t want to walk this road alone.
Will you be part of the change and walk with me to experience collective healing?
We can all find a place to belong, together.
Aunty Brenda
Watch the Trailer
The Story
After being raised by a white family, a young girl is taken away and returned to the Aboriginal family she didn’t know. Decades later, she’s on a journey to discover where she truly belongs.
Synopsis
Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family.
Decades later, she feels disconnected from both halves of her life. But the traumas of her past do not lie quietly buried. So, she goes searching for the foster family with whom she had lost all contact.
Along the way she uncovers long-buried secrets, government lies, and the possibility for deeper connections to family and culture. The Last Daughter is a powerful and inspiring documentary about Brenda’s journey to unearth the truth in her past, and reconcile the two sides of her family.
Our Goal
Share The Last Daughter with 1 million Australians in 2023 (a nation-wide seed of change, bringing people together).
Community Impact
The Last Daughter gives us a window into the world of an Aboriginal woman with her feet in two worlds; connected to both Black and White Australia. Brenda shares her deeply moving story alongside Nan (Brenda’s Aboriginal mother) and Mac and Connie (Brenda’s white adoptive parents). Together, they share their story of loss and reconciliation without passing blame.
By sharing this story with your community, you can help promote a greater understanding and connection to our national identity and culture. The Last Daughter invites you to listen to Brenda’s story, reflect on your own experiences, and consider how you can contribute to a brighter future, together.
Through the film, you can explore the importance of cultural identity, and how we can all work to build bridges between different cultures.
Community leaders can play a key role in sharing this powerful story with Australia, promoting greater understanding, empathy and connection within your community. We invite you to take part in the journey of The Last Daughter, and help build a more inclusive and connected Australia.
The Book
Dive deeper into the story of The Last Daughter and read the book. Written by Brenda Matthews, uncover more of this healing jounrey.
About Brenda Matthews
Brenda is a mother, a grandmother, a storyteller, a writer, a speaker, co-founder and Indigenous Director of Learning Circle Australia and an emerging film director, making her feature film debut with THE LAST DAUGHTER, a documentary about Brenda’s life.
“I’ve had to go back, so I could move forward.”
– Brenda
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