Shocking Pink

Australian anthropologist, botanist, and eccentric Olive Pink waged a 40-year, one-woman civil rights campaign on behalf of the Aboriginal peoples until her death in 1975.

Neither her efforts nor her personality won her any friends, with one exception -- Pink's doctoral professor at the University of Sydney. But even that relationship fell apart, as evidenced in the increasingly acerbic and disheartened letters she wrote him. This unconventional portrait of Olive Pink is part-theater, part-musical composition, and part radio-romp through the Outback.

Shocking Pink was produced in 2003.