Take Heart: Songlines
This definitive film demonstrates the problem of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Australia and how it can be eliminated through community action and political will. Take Heart: Songlines is the third…
Take Heart: Songlines
This definitive film demonstrates the problem of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Australia and how it can be eliminated through community action and political will. Take Heart: Songlines is the third and most influential installment in the Take Heart series. Take Heart is a film-led campaign that has been committed to eliminating RHD in Australia for over a decade. During this time, we have seen huge improvements in general awareness of RHD, alongside the establishment of dozens of community-led programs offering hope for the future. However, at least 2 young people die from this preventable disease in Australia every week. Most of these young people identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders. Tragically, Rheumatic Heart Disease has the greatest negative impact on the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Featuring First Nations leaders and Australian change makers including Aunty Vicki Wade (First Nations Lead at Menzies School for Health Research), Noel Pearson (Founder of the Cape York Partnership), Adam Goodes (Australian of the Year 2014), Dr Bo Remenyi (Northern Territory Australian of the Year 2018), Dion Devow (ACT Australian of the Year 2018), Stan Grant (Award-Winning Author and Journalist), and many more. This definitive film features stories from all corners of the country, including Western Australia, North Queensland, the Torres Strait Islands, the Northern Territory, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT. —Moonshine Agency
Take Heart: Songlines
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This definitive film demonstrates the problem of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Australia and how it can be eliminated through community action and political will. Take Heart: Songlines is the third and most influential installment in the Take Heart series. Take Heart is a film-led campaign that has been committed to eliminating RHD in Australia for over a decade.
During this time, we have seen huge improvements in general awareness of RHD, alongside the establishment of dozens of community-led programs offering hope for the future. However, at least 2 young people die from this preventable disease in Australia every week. Most of these young people identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders.
Tragically, Rheumatic Heart Disease has the greatest negative impact on the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Featuring First Nations leaders and Australian change makers including Aunty Vicki Wade (First Nations Lead at Menzies School for Health Research), Noel Pearson (Founder of the Cape York Partnership), Adam Goodes (Australian of the Year 2014), Dr Bo Remenyi (Northern Territory Australian of the Year 2018), Dion Devow (ACT Australian of the Year 2018), Stan Grant (Award-Winning Author and Journalist), and many more. This definitive film features stories from all corners of the country, including Western Australia, North Queensland, the Torres Strait Islands, the Northern Territory, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT.
—Moonshine Agency.