Australia's version of Boyhood shows an Aboriginal boy's journey to manhood

By Garry Maddox
Updated March 30 2017 - 12:03am, first published March 29 2017 - 7:10pm

It was shot over 10 years as a boy grows up - facing all the dramas of the teenage years - from the age of six to 16. But Australia's version of the Oscar-winning film Boyhood, the documentary Zach's Ceremony, tackles a very different story from that Texan drama. It centres on Zach Doomadgee, an Aboriginal city kid whose sometimes troubled life takes on new meaning after going through an initiation ceremony on his tribal lands in the Northern Territory.

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