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Bush Mechanics
- 2001
- Documentary
- 4 x 30mins
- Completed
BUSH MECHANICS is an offbeat series following the exploits of a small band of Aboriginal characters, the Jupurrurla Gang, as they journey through Central Australia in a clapped-out motor car.
Coniston
- 2012
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Completed
In 1928, following the murder of a white dingo trapper, central Australia would witness the last known massacre of its Indigenous people. With over one hundred killed during a series of punitive expeditions, those who survived fled far and wide from the massacre sites. Denied a voice at the official inquiry and dislocated from their lands, the survivors passed down the story of this bloody episode to their children and grandchildren.
Desert Heart
- 2007
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Completed
After 40 years in exile, Aboriginal elders take their most promising young artist to his desert country for the first time.
Going Bush
- 2007
- Documentary
- 9 x 25mins
- Completed
Roll up your swags, pack your sense of adventure and hit the road with Cathy Freeman and Luke Carroll as the two city-slickers embark on a road trip through remote Aboriginal Australia. They introduce us to places we've never seen, people we've never met and reveal the stories behind Australia's rich cultural heritage.
Going Bush series 1
- 2005
- Documentary
- 4 x 26mins
- Completed
Roll up your swags, pack your sense of adventure and hit the road with Cathy Freeman and Deborah Mailman as the two city-slickers embark on a road trip through remote Aboriginal Australia. They introduce us to places we've never seen, people we've never met and reveal the stories behind Australia's rich cultural heritage.
Halal Mate
- 2007
- Documentary
- 4 x 25mins
- Completed
Where meat pies, rap music and footy go halal. Four insightful stories about Australian made Muslims.
Inventions from the Shed
- 2004
- Documentary
- 5 x 26mins
- Completed
This five-part series delves inside the driven, obsessive and wacky world of the inventor. From the palatial sprawl of the Australian suburbia to the dusty outback towns of the desert, INVENTIONS FROM THE SHED takes a spanner to the odd bod, freak and quirky inventor.
Love's Harvest
- 2008
- Documentary
- 4 x 25mins
- Completed
LOVE'S HARVEST is a series of four beautiful and intimate stories about organic farmers. Each episode portrays the experiences of couples and families toiling hard for their beliefs in organic goodness and the love and life it provides.
On Borrowed Time
- 2011
- Documentary
- 85mins
- Completed
Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he waits for a life saving liver transplant.
Rodeo Road
- 1999
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Completed
RODEO ROAD explores the unique cowboy culture of Australia's remote north west in the pursuit of the rodeo dream - eight seconds of bull riding glory. Each year cowboys from across the Kimberley load up their saddles, chaps and wranglers and go rough-riding. Some are born and bred in the saddle, while others are young ringers from over east who come to muster through the dry season. Come rodeo time they are chasing the dream, gripped by the rodeo fever of the wild north west.
Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls
- 2003
- Documentary
- 56mins
- Completed
The Sisters of St John of God have lived in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia for nearly 100 years. Their lives have been intrinsically entwined with the history and fate of Aboriginal people during times of war, disease and government removalist policies. As they approach the end of an era - and the end of their Order - the Sisters search their souls in an examination of their life's work.
Taylor Made
- 2004
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Completed
Phil Taylor lives in the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah and sells second-hand cars at 'Taylor Made Car Sales and Hire'. Every year his family enters a float in the town's Banana Festival. But this year a cloud of smoke surrounds his entry to the parade. Director David Batty explores the unique world of his cousin Phil in a celebration of bananas, family and the wonderful world of cars.
Then the Wind Changed
- 2011
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Completed
The small rural hamlet of Strathewen, was devastated by the Black Saturday fires. It sustained unimaginable losses of life, environment and property. But after the shock of survival, just as the adrenalin is finally deplete, the real work starts. How will the resilient community of Strathewen reclaim their bush paradise?
Veiled Ambition
- 2007
- Documentary
- 26mins
- Completed
Frida Dakiz is a young Muslim woman with a thick Aussie accent and a dream to create a fashion Mecca for Islamic women. But the idea of marriage and children also has it’s appeal. Albert, Frida’s long distance fiance, supports her vision for the business but he can’t wait forever. He has set a deadline and has plans for a Sydney wedding. Meanwhile Frida’s hunger for success intensifies and she ditches the slow selling hijabs to make room for her new range of Miss World dresses in the revamped boutique. Relationships come under strain.
The Wedding Makers
- 2008
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Completed
Getting married in the 21st Century is a highly commercialised, expensive exercise. With the average cost of an Australian wedding now $33,000, the wedding industry is worth $3.5 billion dollars annually - and there are plenty who want a piece of it. THE WEDDING MAKERS goes behind the scenes of this highly competitive, often glamorous, sometimes garish industry and examines how it shapes and influences today's bride

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