David vadiveloo biography

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Trespass 26 mins. Director: David Vadiveloo Producer:. Focus Years: Country: Australia. Subject Tags: australia, economies, environment, ethics, indigenous rights, leadership, oceania. Less than thirty Mirarr people remain alive today. Their language and cultural survival is threatened with extinction. But their gently spoken leader, Yvonne Margarula, has led the Mirarr people on a non-violent campaign of resistance that has stopped successive governments and two of the world's largest mining companies in their tracks.

David Selvarajah Vadiveloo is an Australian lawyer, education reformer and cultural safety consultant. Vadiveloo received the Australian Human Rights Commission Award for Individual Community Achievement and was the youngest person to be Highly Commended for the Australian Human Rights Medalrecognising lifelong david vadiveloo biography and achievements in human rights.

He led the cultural safety and culturally responsive practice reform in schools in Victoria's juvenile justice system [ 3 ] and previously consulted to high-profile First Nations community and commercial organisations in Australia and North America, including the Mirarr Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation [ 4 ] and the Inupiat Education Department [ 5 ] in Alaska.

Vadiveloo's social justice films have been nominated for Australian Film Institute Awards in both the drama and documentary categories. Vadiveloo's work in human rights, media and culturally responsive education saw him awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission Award for Individual Community Achievement, specifically for his work with Indigenous and marginalised peoples.

Vadiveloo began work as a solicitor and barrister in the Northern Territory of Australia in He worked on the successful Central Land Council native title application, Hayes v Northern Territory[ 12 ] brought by the Arrernte people of the Alice Springs region. He facilitated national community consultations with Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse CALD communities about the operation and effectiveness of the Australian Racial Discrimination Act.

His consultations formed the basis of the State of the Nation Report. SinceVadiveloo and wife Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson have facilitated culturally responsive practice and social justice media programs in partnership with Indigenous and marginalised youth in the Northern TerritoryQueenslandVictoriaNSW and Alaska. In at the request of the Legal Aid Commission of NSWVadiveloo and Edwardson devised and facilitated the Burn project with marginalised youth from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds in inner-city Sydney.

The six-month project was a crime prevention initiative that resulted in the production of the Australian Film Institute nominated Burn film. In Vadiveloo and Edwardson devised and facilitated a culturally responsive education pilot program for youth in custody at the Parkville Youth Justice Facility in Melbourne, Australia. Inafter completing the Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television post-graduate degree, Vadiveloo returned to Alice Springs and established a media program at the Irrkerlantye Learning Centre, working with Aboriginal children from the Town Camps of Alice Springs and re-engaging them with schooling through media.

Vadiveloo's documentary Trespassabout the Mirrar leader Yvonne Margarula and her battle to stop the Jabiluka mine site, won multiple awards [ 8 ] and his documentary Beyond Sorry about Australia's Stolen Generations premiered on Australia's ABC Television and was a festival favourite at the Sydney Film Festival. Vadiveloo directed and co-produced Us Mobthe first Aboriginal children's television series in Australia and the first interactive Indigenous television series in the world.

David vadiveloo biography

This program led to partnerships with the Arrernte families of the region and the production of his multi- award winning short film Bush Bikes and then the first Indigenous children's television series in Australia, Us Mob Vadiveloo's documentary Trespassabout the Mirrar leader Yvonne Margarula and her battle with mining companies over the Jabiluka mine site, won multiple awards and his documentary Beyond Sorry premiered on Australia's ABC Television and was a festival favorite at the Sydney Film Festival.

He directed and wrote the half-hour drama Burnabout youth identity and crime which was nominated for Best Short Fiction Film. He also directed, wrote and co-produced the documentary series, Voices from the Capewhich followed a media program run by his company Community Prophets, in the Aboriginal community of Aurukun in Cape YorkAustralia. Vadiveloo is the founder and director of the media entertainment and social justice company Community Prophets.

The company produces film and television and delivers digital media training programs for marginalised youth. Vadiveloo has developed a unique model for working with marginalised youth which involves partnering with communities, training participants, employing community members and ultimately producing broadcast quality film and television.