Healing Fire | Kimberley Land Council

Every year, almost 40 per cent of Western Australia’s massive remote Kimberley region burns.
As the destructive effects of farming and mining mount, western science is
finally turning back to those who know country best: the Traditional Owners.

The Kimberley Land Council’s Indigenous fire management program combines ancient cultural knowledge
with modern technology to greatly reduce the risk and impact of seasonal wildfires in the region.

Most importantly it returns the rights of land management to local Indigenous communities.
This not only provides significant economic benefits, but importantly reestablishes connections
to the land, between the younger generation and their elders, and helps ensure that thousands
of years of traditional cultural teachings are not lost.

This short documentary is part of a larger project, still in production.
It examines the global movement to adopt traditional, locally managed burning practices.
Not only changing our relationship with the fire, but with the land itself.

DIRECTOR/DOP/EDITOR: Richard Maxton
PRODUCER: Gabrielle Timmins