Everyday Brave is a Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Macumba Media Enterprises and Caama Productions. Produced with the support and assistance of Pacific Film and Television Commission, the NSW Film and Television Office, ScreenWest, the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia, the National Council for the Centenary of Federation, the Australia Council and SBS Independent.

Series producer
Rod Freedman

Film Australia Executive Producer
Mark Hamlyn

Macumba Media Enterprises Pty Ltd is one of Australia's leading producers of communications on Indigenous issues and is the only one controlled by an Aboriginal person with traditional knowledge. Established in Adelaide in 1986, it has become one of the oldest and most successful Aboriginal video producers in the private sector with a broad range of corporate productions to its credit.

The company was the first Indigenous production house to be established in South Australia - and the only one to be accepted onto the South Australian Film CorporationÕs list of approved Government contractors.

Macumba's creative philosophy is education through entertainment, focusing on positive images and the promotion of cross-cultural understanding. Although Indigenous Australians are employed wherever possible, each project has its own needs, and crew members from the wider community are also engaged as required.

Macumba Media's most recent television program is Wrap Me Up in Paperbark, screened in November 1999 and June 2000 as part of the second National Indigenous Documentary Series. It also produced the pilot for the Everyday Brave series, Saltwater Bluesman.

CAAMA Productions is the largest Indigenous production house in Australia. It is an experienced filmmaking company with intimate knowledge of Aboriginal people.

CAAMA Productions Pty Ltd was established by the Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association in 1988 to perform the function of the commercial production of film and television for the newly established Imparja Television. It is 100 per cent owned and operated by the CAAMA group and is not government funded.

CAAMA Productions has produced documentaries for Channel 7, Channel 4 (London), ABC, SBS and Imparja Television. A one-hour documentary for National Geographic Channels worldwide is currently in production.

From production offices based in the centre of Alice Springs, CAAMA offers complete production services with Indigenous producers, directors, camera crews and editors, including offline and online post production.

The six-part Everyday Brave series was designed not only to celebrate Indigenous Australian achievers but also to offer production opportunities and skills development to Indigenous filmmakers.

• About the filmmakers
• About the production companies
• Behind the scenes: production stories
• Back to Indigenous Voices Showcase home

For more about the series and specific episodes, see our program detail pages where you can also purchase video copies online:

• Everyday Brave: The Series
• For Who I Am-Bonita Mabo
• Jetja Nai Medical Mob-Naomi Mayers
• Media Nomads-The Thaiday Brothers
• Mistake Creek-Steven Craig
• Saltwater Bluesman-Uncle Kiddo Taylor
• Stranger in My Skin-Ray Cotti

Download a copy of the Everyday Brave teachers notes (Acrobat pdf, 392kb)

Download a copy of the Everyday Brave press kit (Word file, 336k) which includes:

• synopses
• production stories
• filmmaker biographies
• full credit list

for each episode

Note: detailed information is available for many titles in press kits that are downloadable from program detail pages.