- Welcome to POV .
I'm Pete Schwaba, host of PBS Wisconsin's Director's Cut .
Tonight, we see life in Australia's Northern Territory
through the eyes of a young Aboriginal boy
in the film In My Blood It Runs .
This intelligent ten-year-old, Dujaun,
speaks three languages and is a gifted healer,
but faces the daily struggle of attending a school
where his people's history is contorted and downplayed
by his primarily white teachers,
and at times even openly mocked in the classroom.
It is these everyday challenges that mold Dujaun.
He becomes disengaged and angry, and ultimately carried
to the brink of incarceration.
Director Maya Newell uses a plain verite style
to access Dujaun's home and school life.
Newell does it so effortlessly that one reviewer says
the trust that she establishes with her subjects
is the foundation of the film's success,
as characters rarely acknowledge the camera,
letting their natural behavior, be it care or cruelty, play out.
Newell compares doing a film to getting a PhD,
in that both require depth and total immersion.
Kinda nice that all we have to do is watch.
In My Blood It Runs starts now on PBS Wisconsin,
your home for independent film.