Stories for the screen bring Indigenous people together

Tony Briggs says Indigenous children being stolen from their families was not an isolated event. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Artistic director Tony Briggs believes the Birrarangga Film Festival unifies Indigenous peoples from around the world through story.

"When I was a young lad I remember my aunty, Hyllus Maris, who wrote Women of the Sun, went away to the (United) States and she came back talking about all the First Nations people she met and how their culture is like ours," he said.