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Imparja Television drew a lot of complaints from media activists about its lack of Aboriginal programs and the fact that only 10% of its staff were Aboriginal.{{cn}} Following this, Glynn and Batty, were drawn in direct confrontation with not only the management board of Imparja but also their governing committee and, finding their positions untenable, they both resigned in 1991.<ref name=":1" /> |
Imparja Television drew a lot of complaints from media activists about its lack of Aboriginal programs and the fact that only 10% of its staff were Aboriginal.{{cn|date=October 2022}} Following this, Glynn and Batty, were drawn in direct confrontation with not only the management board of Imparja but also their governing committee and, finding their positions untenable, they both resigned in 1991.<ref name=":1" /> |
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Following her time at CAAMA Glynn continued to work in media.<ref name=womensregister/> |
Following her time at CAAMA Glynn continued to work in media.<ref name=womensregister/> |
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Freda Glynn OAM (born 1939), also known as Freda Thornton, is a Kaytetye photographer and media specialist, who co-founded the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Group of Companies; which incorporates CAAMA and Imparja.
Early life
Glynn was born in 1939[1] at Woodgreen Station (Atartinga), 150 km north of Alice Springs[2] and is the daughter of Ron Price and Topsy Glynn, a housemaid and cook and she is the half-sister of Rona Glynn. In September 1939 Rona and Freda, were placed in The Bungalow, a "half-caste institution", at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station. Topsy worked as a laundress here in order to stay with her children.[3]
During World War II, Glynn, with her mother and sister were evacuated from Alice Springs to Melbourne following the bombing of Darwin and Katherine.[4] Glynn, and her family, were returned to Alice Springs in 1949, when she was 10 years old, and they lived at St Mary's Hostel and attended Alice Springs High School until she was 17.[2]
Career
After leaving school, in 1956, Glynn worked at Trish Collier's photographic studio in the darkroom; she was one of the first Aboriginal girls in Alice Springs to get a job other than as a domestic or cleaner. She had a number of other roles before she became involved in media.[citation needed]
In 1977, after gaining a community development qualification from the South Australian Institute of Technology, she started work as a community development adviser for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.[citation needed]
In 1980, after much consideration, Glynn joined John Macumba and Philip Batty in volunteering to make The Aboriginal Half Hour, the first Aboriginal radio program in the Northern Territory,[5] where she began recording interviews around town, doing the program "links" and voice-overs as well as working on English language programming. Following this Glynn became an advocate for Aboriginal media and was appointed as a committee member of CAAMA when it was chartered on 12 May 1980; this again was a voluntary position.[2]
In June 1981 Macumba resigned as the director of CAAMA and was replaced by Glynn, then known by her married name Thornton, with Philip Batty as the deputy director; the two worked together from 1981 to 1991. During this period CAAMA grew exponentially and they established:[5]
- 8KIN-FM, the first Aboriginal radio station in Australia
- CAAMA Productions, a film and video production house
- CAAMA Shop Pty. Ltd, retail outlets
- Imparja Television, a commercial television service
Imparja Television drew a lot of complaints from media activists about its lack of Aboriginal programs and the fact that only 10% of its staff were Aboriginal.[citation needed] Following this, Glynn and Batty, were drawn in direct confrontation with not only the management board of Imparja but also their governing committee and, finding their positions untenable, they both resigned in 1991.[5]
Following her time at CAAMA Glynn continued to work in media.[1]
Films
In 2002 Glynn played Grandma Nina in the short drama film Shit Skin, about a young man who takes his grandmother back to her childhood community, in order to reconnect with her surviving family.[1]
In 2019 Erica Glynn released her film, She Who Must Be Loved, about her mother; she was assisted by her granddaughter Tanith Glynn-Maloney.[6]
Recognition
- 2002: Award for Contribution to Indigenous Media at the Third Tudawali Indigenous Film and Video Awards[1]
- 2018: Don Dunstan Award at the Adelaide Film Festival, along with her filmmaking family members[7][8]
Family
Glynn is the matriarch of a filmmaking family. Two of her children, Erica Glynn and Warwick Thornton are both successful filmmakers, as are two of her grandchildren: Dylan River and Tanith Glynn-Maloney.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d "Glynn, Freda". The Australian Women's Register. National Foundation for Australian Women and The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ a b c Bell, Wendy. (2008). A remote possibility : the battle for Imparja Television. Alice Springs, N.T.: IAD Press. ISBN 9781864650976. OCLC 213844634.
- ^ "Half-caste Institution 1940 - 1941". National Archives of Australia. 2007. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "Freda Glynn". IMDb. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ a b c Batty, Philip. "Governing Cultural Difference The Incorporation of the Aboriginal Subject into the Mechanisms of Government with Reference to the Development of Aboriginal Radio and Television in Central Australia".
- ^ a b "Freda Glynn biography wins documentary film of the year at SFF". NITV. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ Siemienowicz, Rochelle (1 November 2018). "Freda Glynn - from little things, big things grow". ScreenHub Australia. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Maddox, Garry (14 October 2018). "'Nana Freda' is honoured as a pioneer of Indigenous film and TV". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
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Further reading
- Mailman, Deborah (introduction) (2018), Duthie, Amanda (ed.), Kin : an extraordinary Australian filmmaking family: Including Freda Glynn, Warwick Thornton, Erica Glynn, Dylan River, Tanith Glynn-Maloney [Trove catalogue entry], Wakefield Press, ISBN 978-1-74305-635-6,
In Kin: An extraordinary Australian filmmaking family, artists and filmmakers from all over the world pay tribute to the indomitable Freda Glynn and her family.