Released on video in Australia as part of the Picturing Black Australia series.
Awards: Winner, Documentary Section, Greater Union Awards, Sydney Film Festival, Rouben Mamoulian Prize, Best Short film, Sydney Film Festival, Red Ribbon, American Film Festival, Certificate of Merit, Chicago Film Festival, First Prize (ex aequo), Cinema Du Reel Finalist, Documentary Section, Australian Film Awards.
Soundtrack: Songs include "Bush Queen" (Essie Coffey) and "I Don't Care Who Knows" (Dougie Young).
"My Survival As An Aboriginal" was the first documentary directed by an Indigenous woman and one of the first films where Indigenous people had a determining role in how they and their community were represented.
"My Survival As An Aboriginal" was filmed in Brewarrina, New South Wales, about 830kms north-west of Sydney.