Kristina nehm biography
Biography.
She was an assistant director on the mini-series Heartland () and has worked as a producer for SBS. Updated Show full biography..
The Fringe Dwellers
For the novel, see The Fringe Dwellers (novel).
1986 Australian film
The Fringe Dwellers is a 1986 film directed by Bruce Beresford, based on the 1961 novel The Fringe Dwellers by Western Australian author Nene Gare.[2] The film is about a young Aboriginal girl who dreams of life beyond the family camp that sits on the fringe of white society (the term fringe dwellers having specific application in Australia).
The film is acclaimed as being the first Australian film featuring Indigenous actors in all the major roles.[citation needed][3] It achieved critical and international success when it was released in 1986, but gained only a lukewarm reception in Australia.[4]
Plot
Trilby (Kristina Nehm) is a young Aboriginal woman living with her people on the outskirts of everyday Australian society.
Trilby encourages her mother (Justine Saunders) to apply for a Housing Commission home being built in an area inhabi