Hot Docs 2018: GURRUMUL (Australia 2018)

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GURRUMUL is a name most people have never heard of.  So the image of him as seen on the cover of “Rolling Stone” magazine must stand for something.   Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. 

 Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning through songs and music inspired by his community and country on Elcho Island in far North East Arnhem Land.  Living a traditional Yolngu life, his breakthrough album ‘Gurrumul’ brought him to a crossroads as audiences…