One photo changed a nation. This is what happened after the flash.
The Ripple Effect is a powerful documentary primarily centred around St Kilda legend and proud Noongar Nicky Winmar's generation-defining stand against racism at Victoria Park in 1993.
Writing
Winmar's own words hit harder than any narrator could.
Production
Archival footage that still stings, 30 years later.
Director
Peter Dickson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
That 1993 photo is in the National Museum—yet Winmar was booed at games for years after. The gap between symbolic victory and lived reality is the film's quiet rage.
Director Peter Dickson deliberately avoids white AFL officials as talking heads. The story belongs to Winmar, his family, and fellow Indigenous players—period.
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