8MMM Aboriginal Radio

8MMM Aboriginal Radio is an Australian six-part television comedy series.

At the arse-end of the world, in the middle of nowhere, is Alice Springs – home to 8MMM Aboriginal Radio, the proud voice of the Blackfellas living here. It runs on the smell of an oily rag and the enthusiasm of its motley Indigenous crew. With meager funding, the 8MMM team airs the day-to-day preoccupations of Alice Springs and its surrounds: housing, education, culture, money, alcohol and reconciliation.

But like most indigenous organisations, it’s run by Whitefellas and when non-Indigenous people come to work in Aboriginal organisations, they easily fall into one of three categories – missionaries, mercenaries or misfits – the 3Ms. For the 3Ms working at 8MMM, saving Aboriginal people from themselves is hard work! For the Aboriginal people, being saved all the time is even harder.

CREDITS

Created By: Anna Cadden & Trisha Morton-Thomas
Directors:
Dena Curtis & Adrian Wills
Producers: Rachel Clements Patricia Morton
DOP: Murray Lui
‘B’ Camera Operator: Michael Steel

Cast

Jessie: Shari Sebbens
Jake: Ian Meadows
Dave: Geoff Morrell
Lola: Trisha Morton-Thomas
Koala: Laura Dorothy Hughes
Jampajimpa: Zac James
Millie: Elaine Crombie

8MMM tv series frame: hunters
8MMM tv series frame: White fella waves flag
8MMM tv series frame: Ian Meadows points
8MMM tv series frame: Dave and Jake at table
8MMM tv series frame: Elaine as secretary Millie
8MMM tv series frame: Lola watches keenly
8MMM tv series frame: Sebbens as Shari talks down
8MMM tv series frame: Blackfella hunters
8MMM tv series frame: the radio studio
8MMM tv series frame: Koala loves babies
8MMM tv series frame: Koala trumpets at Millie
8MMM tv series frame: White guy leads tribe
8MMM tv series frame: Shari daydreams
8MMM tv series frame: Lola checks biscuits
8MMM tv series frame: Jake jams with Shari
8MMM tv series frame: Millie attitude
8MMM tv series frame: Jampajimpa in cage with blackfella
8MMM tv series frame: Dave gets racist
8MMM tv series frame: Jake and Koala meeting
8MMM tv series frame: Jake beat up