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The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama film based on the 2004 stage play The Sapphires by Tony Briggs, which is loosely based on a real-life 1960s girl group that included Briggs' mother and aunt. [4] The film is directed by Wayne Blair and written by Keith Thompson and Briggs.
The Sapphires is an Australian play written by Tony Briggs and directed by Wesley Enoch. [1] It is set in 1968 (a year after the referendum , which symbolically expanded the rights of Aboriginal people ) and it tells the story of The Sapphires, a singing group of four Yorta Yorta women who tour Vietnam during the war .
The Sapphires: Wayne Blair: The Sapphires is about four indigenous Australian women, Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay (Shari Sebbens) and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell), who are discovered by a talent scout (Chris O'Dowd), and form a music group named The Sapphires, travelling to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for troops during the war. 2013
It tells the story of The Sapphires, a singing group of four Koori women who tour Vietnam during the war. [11] [12] It is inspired by the true story of his mother, Laurel Robinson, and aunt, Lois Peeler, who toured Vietnam as singers in 1968. [13] Briggs adapted the play for the 2012 film The Sapphires. [14]
Mayers was born in 1941, [1] of Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri heritage. [2]She was one of three members of The Sapphires, along with Beverly Briggs (her sister) and Laurel Robinson, in the 1960s.
Miranda Tapsell (born 11 December 1987) is a Larrakia Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film The Sapphires and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series Love Child. In 2016, she portrayed Fatima in the Stan series Wolf Creek.
Blair's first recorded on-screen appearance was in a 1997 Australian TV film called The Tower.The following year he appeared on All Saints and Wildside.He has also appeared in Water Rats and Fireflies. 1998 was also the year he was one of the first four film makers to be mentored under the Metro Screen Indigenous Mentor Scheme for which he made a short film called Fade 2 Black.
In 1993, Lucy joined the cast of the live ABC TV comedy The Late Show. [2] She has since co-starred with Mick Molloy in two movies, Crackerjack (2002) and Bad Eggs (2003), [2] the latter directed by Tony Martin (both Martin & Molloy were fellow cast-members on The Late Show). Lucy also appeared on the short-lived and controversial The Mick ...