Debut in the UK on Channel 4 on Sunday night was former Narrandera woman Jordan Bryon’s latest film Our Land.
Jordan originally grew up in Narrandera but first left home at only 15 years of age for a year long exchange program in Japan.
Upon returning from Japan, she finished high school in Hurston and then attended UTS to study media, sound and photography.
She then wasted no time in getting back to travelling the world, stopping first in Jordan before making the way to places to create social documentaries including Tibet, Japan, South America, Colombia and India.
With rare access inside the Israeli settler movement and the Palestinians whose land they contest, her documentary offers a searing insight into the hostile and often violent reality of life in the occupied West Bank.
Filmed across eight months in 2024, it follows the lives of those on opposing sides of the controversial divide: an Israeli settler who’s helped by a group of young associates to further expand and defend the land he controls. And a Palestinian family who endure frequent and intimidating visits from other groups of settlers onto the land they’ve called home for more than 40 years.
The film is produced by the Emmy and BAFTA-winning Hardcash Productions, and made by the BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jordan Bryon for the ITV Exposure strand.
The film is being screened this week from 10.12pm to 11.45pm on Channel ITV1 until tomorrow Friday April 4.
This article appeared in Narrandera Argus, 3 April 2025.
