Call Me Mum

Telefeature > 76 mins > Digital Betacam > Completed

When Kate decides to reunite her Torres Strait Islander foster son with his birth mother, dangerous family and racial tensions surface.

Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn’t seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and the white authorities took him away. But as Warren, Flo and Kate all prepare themselves for the reunion, unbeknown to them, Kate’s Brisbane based parents, Keith and Dellmay, are planning a different kind of reunion.

Set in the recent past, the AFI award-winning Call Me Mum is a series of interlinked monologues where five characters unravel a complex tale of mothering, race relations and family in Australia.

Call Me Mum now available to purchase on DVD from Ronin Films

“The film is a ‘must see’ for all Australians, especially people from the Torres Strait and their descendants, family and friends.”
– The Koori Mail, November 2006

“Call Me Mum is among the finest of recent Australian films, and certainly one of the most affecting and resonant.”
– Adrian Martin, The Monthly, February 2007

CAST
Kate Catherine McClements, Flo Vicki Saylor, Dellmay Lynette Curran, Warren Dayne Christian, Keith Ross Thompson

Director Margot Nash
Writer Kathleen Mary Fallon
Producer Michael McMahon
Director of Photography Andrew de Groot
Editor Denise Haratzis ASE
Production Designer Patrick Reardon
Music Composer David Bridie

Investors SBS Independent, Film Victoria, New South Wales Film and Television Office, Australian Film Commission

Screenings World Premiere, 2006 Sydney Film Festival, 2006 Winnipeg Film Festival, 2006 Female Eye Festival – Closing Night film, 2007 Adelaide International Film Festival, 2007 Creteil Women's Film Festival,

Awards and Prizes Vicki Saylor, 2007 AFI award winner for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in Television Drama. Finalist - Best Screenplay, 2006 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards; Nominated Best Television Screenplay, 2006 Australia Writers Guild Awards

Sales and Distribution Big and Little Films