US actor Steve Martin backs Australian film on Indigenous art movement

Comedian announced as executive producer on Honey Ant Dreamers, about the evolution of the Papunya Western Desert art movement, to be filmed across the Northern Territory

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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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