The Australian Dream

The documentary tells the story of the Australian footballer Adam Goodes. He played many seasons in the AFL. He is an Aboriginal player. The account centres on the seasons between 2013 and 2015. In those years the crowds began to boo him steadily. The booing went on for weeks. The film asks whether that was racism. The journalist Stan Grant wrote it and speaks in it himself. People from both sides of the argument take part. Former players, journalists and club officials all appear. The questions reach past football. What it means to be Australian, and where identity and belonging come from, is what the film puts on the table. Adam Goodes, Gilbert McAdam and Nathan Buckley appear in the hundred and six minute documentary, an Australian and British production Daniel Gordon finished in 2019.