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Documentaries - 25 September 2009


National Documentary Program

AFTER THE FIRES
December Films
Producers Tony Wright, Stephen Amezdroz
Director Dione Gilmour
Sales and Distribution ABC TV
Synopsis After the Fires is a 12-month observational study of the flora and fauna of the Great Dividing Range as they recover from the effects of the February 2009 bushfires.

INSIDE THE FIRESTORM
Renegade
Producers Alex West, Lucy Maclaren
Director Jacob Hickey
Sales and Distribution ABC TV, TVF
Synopsis On 7 February 2009 Australia suffered its worst peacetime disaster. ‘Black Saturday’ claimed 173 lives, left almost 8,000 homeless and destroyed close to half a million hectares of Victorian bushland. Inside the Firestorm tells the story of what happened.

A THOUSAND DIFFERENT ANGLES
Producer / Director / Writer Amanda King
Sales and Distribution ABC TV
Synopsis While many of Inge King’s sculptures are installed in Australian public spaces, few people would be aware that they are the work of a tiny 90-year-old who continues to produce large-scale boldly imaginative pieces.

WARSHIP
Prospero Productions
Producers Ed Punchard, Julia Redwood
Sales and Distribution National Geographic Channel
With unparalleled access to the Royal Australian Navy, Warship offers rare insight into the running of a warship operating at the frontline of Australia’s national defence.


TRIPLE JTV DOCS

RUDELY INTERRUPTED
Producers / Directors Susie Jones, Benjamin Jones
A one hour documentary following the incredible journey of a very different band. Five of the six members of this indy-rock outfit are intellectually and physically impaired, but they won’t let this stand in their way as they embark on their first world tour. The first stop is New York City where they play at the UN, and then on to Canada and the UK where their infectious sound wins fans the world over. A rock-documentary with a difference.

NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI (working title)
Producer Alex Kelly
Writer Scott Rankin
Acclaimed Pitjantjatjara actor Trevor Jamieson sets out on a daunting personal journey to bring his hit stage show Ngapartji Ngapartji home to country… but can he bridge these two worlds, two languages and two cultures?
           
ORCHIDS
Producer/Director Phoebe Hart
Orchids is an intimate autobiographical film by Gen X emerging filmmaker Phoebe Hart, which explores the contemporary issues faced by people and families living with intersex conditions.

DRIVE
Online and broadcast documentary
Co-producers / Directors Bronwyn Purvis, Telen Rodwell
Tasmania, the southernmost isolated state of Australia, lays claim to the nation’s highest rate of road fatality. Young men are dying in high speed, single vehicle crashes, crumpled in metal coffins, on lonely rural roads. Why do they die? Why do they live?

BAREFOOT IN THE AFAR
Producer Jenni Lee
Director Sieh Mchawala
Kyra Glasby is young, idealistic and fearless. She has a dream to save the world, get married, have some kids and live in a hut in India! But it might take more than just holding hands and singing Kumbayaa … Over five years Kyra tackles the challenges of finding her life’s work in the hottest, driest inhabited place on earth, whilst facing up to big life lessons – birth, death and marriage. A contemporary take on following your heart and challenging convention.