a mixed crew, including an Aboriginal director of photography, a white producer and several Indigenous secondary crew members. At the time, Sen and the white producer Teresa-Jane Hanson expressed their discontent with the limited availability of skilled Indigenous personnel. The film, produced on a $2.5 million budget, won him global acclaim, screening at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and winning the Premiere First Movie Award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and the 2002 Best Director Award at the Australian Film Institute Awards. In 2005, his SBS documentary Yellow Fella was screened in the section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes International Film Festival. In 2009, the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival held at the Sydney Opera House saw the world premiere of Sen's Fire Talker, a documentary biopic about political activist, Aboriginal footballer, and statesman Charlie Perkins. In the same year, Sen and David Jowsey set up Bunya Productions, in order to produce their own films. They used the TV revenue from their earlier works to finance the production of his second feature-length film, Dreamland, which screened at the 2010 Busan International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. His third feature Toomelah (2011), received a prolonged standing ovation from the audience as it screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. The actors were welcomed with celebrity status and Peter Robb described Daniel Connors, the leading 9-year-old non-professional actor as "[handling] the international media like a pro." Sen's fourth feature-length film Mystery Road premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2013 and features many well-known Australian actors, including Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, and Jack Thompson. The film was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. His fifth feature, Goldstone, a sequel to Mystery Road, opened the Sydney Film Festival in June 2016 and opened in cinemas on 7 July 2016. It features actors Aaron Pedersen, Jacki Weaver, Alex Russell, David Gulpilil, David Wenham and Tom E. Lewis. In 2018, Sen acted as executive producer on the ABC TV production of Mystery Road, a six-part series based on characters featured in the movie of the same name and sequel. Themes Commentators often point to landscape, land and place as one of most crucial groups of motif in Ivan Sen's films. His distinctive portrayal of skies, roads and low horizons are Sen's way of addressing issues of location, dislocation and relocation in their relation to identity.