Writer 1945 - 2013

Dennis O'Rourke

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Australian-born director Dennis O'Rourke is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. While living in Papua New Guinea, he completed the critically-acclaimed feature Yumi Yet - Independence for Papua New Guinea. O-Rourke died in 2013.

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Yumi Yet

Dennis O'Rourke 1977 54m

Documents Independence Day of Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1975, comparing the pageantry of local celebrations with the official ceremony in the capital. Also provides historical background about the area's 19th-century colonization by Holland, Germany, and Great Britain.

Dennis O'Rourke

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Yumi Yet

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