Congratulations to John Pilger & Dartmouth Films.
Their hard-hitting film Utopia has been voted 5th best film of 2013 by London Film Review.
This feature-documentary contrasts the wealth and complacency of white Australia to the inhumane treatment of the indigenous Australians.
Utopia is an Australian irony: the name of one of the poorest and desolate areas of the continent.
Situated 200 miles north of Alice Springs, the local health centre for indigenous people has no running water, one racid toilet and snakes can get through the cracks in the corrugated-iron walls. Just next door is a large, fenced-off house with 18 air-conditioning units attached where the white district commissioner lives…
