First Contact (TV series)
| First Contact | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Reality television Documentary |
| Written by | Jacob Hickey |
| Directed by | Ronan Sharkey Dora Weekley |
| Presented by | Ray Martin |
| Narrated by | Hugo Weaving |
| Composer(s) | Matteo Zingales Russel Thornton |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Rachel Perkins |
| Producer(s) | Ronan Sharkey (Associate Producer) Darren Dale, Jacob Hickey |
| Cinematography | Nicola Daley Bonnie Elliott Micah Walker |
| Editor(s) | Steven Robinson ASE Mark AtkinASE |
| Running time | ≥ 52 minutes 60 minutes (inc.adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Blackfella Films |
| Distributor | SBS |
| Release | |
| Original network | SBS One |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo |
| Original release | 18 November 2014 – 1 December 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
First Contact is an Australian reality television documentary series that aired on SBS One, SBS Two and NITV. It documents the journey of six European Australians who are challenged over a period of 28 days about their pre-existing perceptions of Indigenous Australians.
First Contact shows some of the cultural divisions that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and highlights the lack of awareness many non-Indigenous Australians have about Indigenous Australians and the various different cultures and lifestyles they currently maintain. A stated premise is that 60% of European Australian have never had any contact with Indigenous people, a statistic that may explain the prevalence of the racist, unsympathetic and generally prejudicial attitudes that are often directed towards Indigenous Australians.
In making their 'first contact' with Indigenous Australia, the selected six participants are taken to Aboriginal communities both in the city and the country, and are even processed into a regional prison at Roebourne in Western Australia, where social problems are particularly , resulting in incarceration of large numbers of Indigenous Australians, often for quite minor offences. The relationships between Indigenous people and local police in Roebourne are notoriously poor.
First Contact was filmed and set in New South Wales, home to the largest Indigenous Australian population of any state/territory, the Northern Territory, where Indigenous Australians make up a higher percentage of the population than in any other state or territory and Western Australia.
After the series aired, First Contact was the topic of an Insight episode, hosted by Stan Grant and featuring a discussion involving many of the people who were involved in the show.
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