Stand Up Deadly
Stand up Deadly

Public speaking is a daunting task for anyone. Once a year, Indigenous students from Sydney Secondary colleges are offered to participate in a great debate, bringing together Indigenous students from various backgrounds to argue topics that effect their communities. The final debate competition occurring at NSW Parliament House. This documentary follows students from Tempe High, Ashfield Boys High, Sydney Secondary College and Matraville Sports High School over the year as they learn to debate the topics that matter and find their voices in the process.

½ hour doco on the youth who participated in the Youth Parliament, following 6 youth over the year as they represent their schools in debating – Launching in March 2019

Directed By Larissa Behrendt

Produced By Pauline Clague

Edited by Gio De Santolo

Stand up Deadly
Stand up Deadly
Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.