Ablaze: with pioneering First Nations filmmaker, Bill Onus

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains video, voices and images of deceased persons.

More than six years in the making, and something of a detective story, the seed for the documentary was planted when filmmaker Alec Morgan contacted Onus with a strong hunch that a nine-minute black-and-white silent film he’d discovered in the National Film and Sound Archive was made by Onus’ grandfather, William ‘Bill’ Onus.