Mau Power, a lyrical storyteller.

Mau Power is the first rapper to have come from the Torres Strait region of Australia and he considers Thursday Island his home. His latest album, The Show Will Go On, is autobiographical, with each song representing a step on his own journey. Freedom, the last song on the album, and the song which will feature in The Good Deed*, is a call to action. “This is music for the free spirit, inspiration for those who really need it, not those who listen but those who really feel it.” For Mau Power, the survival of his culture is the reason that he wrote this song; to pass on knowledge and empowerment to enable future generations to take hold of their culture and identity and to do so with pride. A passionate storyteller, Mau Power sees a powerful alliance in combining hip hop and indigenous cultures. He comes from a culture with an oral tradition. Knowledge is passed on from generation to generation through music, dance and storytelling. Mau Power sees hip hop as also providi...

The Good Deed is the story of an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy, Tyrone and his Uncle Lucky and provides a snapshot of their lives in everyday urban Melbourne. The film is currently in pre-production and Space Between the Gaps Films, the team behind this compelling story, has launched a crowd-funding campaign through Pozible to get the story onto the screen.

The short film, while potent in its own right, acts as a springboard, to Fireboy, a feature length film that calls into question the slow death of a culture and the struggle of a young boy to survive. Broadly, Fireboy asks whether the government has a right to control indigenous Australians without a Treaty? How can the Australian community save a new generation of First Nations children from the fate of their parents whose life expectancy is drastically shorter than the average Australian? These are volatile, provocative questions and the subject matter requires courage from both the filmmakers and the audience. For Abor...