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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Janine Israel

US actor Steve Martin backs Australian film on Indigenous art movement

Steve Martin smiling
Steve Martin will executive produce an Australian film about the Western Desert Indigenous art movement, to be filmed in the NT in 2024. Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

US actor, comedian and keen Indigenous art collector Steve Martin has been announced as an executive producer of a new feature film that charts the origins of the Western Desert art movement.

Martin, who is one of the world’s top collectors of Aboriginal Australian art, has also been involved in the script development for Honey Ant Dreamers, set to be filmed in 2024 around Papunya, the MacDonnell Ranges and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

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