The Australian virtual reality film Collisions, now screening at the National Museum of Australia, has won the Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches – Documentary at the 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
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Director Lynette Wallworth accepted the award at a ceremony on Friday in New York City.
Wallworth said, "It was a big surprise - it was a big honour to be nominated and it was exciting to win."
This was her first Emmy nomination and win, for a film that used a combination of 360-degree vision and CGI to tell the story of Indigenous elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan and his encounter with nuclear testing in the remote Western Australian desert.
"It's incredibly powerful - it took him a long time to decide to tell it," she said.
Wallworth recently returned from filming in similar fashion with a remote tribe in the Brazilian Amazon where a chief, after seeing Collisions, decided to share a story of his own. The film will be released next January but Wallworth isn't sure where it will be screened yet.
Collisions is now on at the National Museum of Australia at 11am and 2.30pm daily. Tickets $10 or $20-$22 bundled with Songlines exhibition: www.nma.gov.au
