Nanny Nellie, an older Aboriginal woman with glasses and shoulder-length dark hair, stands indoors with her hands gently pressed together in front of her face. She wears a colorful patterned jacket and heart-shaped earrings, with a warm and thoughtful expression.

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Host a screening of Her Name is Nanny Nellie

A trio of nameless statues buried in the archives of the Australian Museum trigger a granddaughter’s journey to rewrite how Aboriginal people are represented in Australia’s public history.

Published 17 April 2025 1:16pm

By NITV

Source: NITV

Image: Nanny Nellie - a moment of quiet strength and deep reflection. Her wisdom and warmth light up every space she enters. (mark rogers)

About the film

Powerful and poignant, Her Name is Nanny Nellie offers us the rare privilege of bearing witness to a family reclaiming their history. In 1925, the Australian Museum commissioned three statues of ‘full blood ’Aboriginal people: a child, a man and a woman, exhibited as nameless objects to be studied as examples of a ‘dying race.’ The woman was Nellie Walker, Irene Walker’s great grandmother and director Daniel King’s great, great grandmother. Now Irene is on a journey to retrace Nellie’s life and to reconnect the other families to their ancestors’ statues and re-display them, this time with their names, identities and dignity. This is far more than a symbolic quest, but an opportunity to change how we remember and represent, and to give the nameless names.

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Rates:

$99 - small community organisations and screenings of less than 50 people

$250 - screenings up to 100 people

$500 - screenings up to 200 people

$750 - large screenings with more than 200 people

Please note that all revenue goes directly to the producers of this film.

This film is 79 minutes long.

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