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11:11
- 2001
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
11:11 is a mystical suspense about an Aboriginal woman's psychic powers.
AFL in the Blood
- 2014
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
A fascinating documentary about Indigenous women in the game of AFL today, told from the perspective of the first Indigenous and multicultural women's team to play for Australia.
Alison Whittaker
- 2014
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Young indigenous woman Alison Whittaker currently studying law arts at UTS and holds the position of Woman Officer at UTS. Alison is running for the office of Student President.
All My Friends Are Getting Married
- 2002
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Aaron and Dave are best friends. They enjoy the same things and like spending time together. The next logical step? Marriage.
And Everything Nice
- 2006
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
The curiosity of a schoolgirl leads her to skip a day at school to observe a classmate as she wanders through the city.
And Justice for One
- 2003
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A visually poetic short film about racism and reconciliation and justice as seen through the eyes of a child in a country town.
Angel
- 2000
- Short film
- Experimental
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A complex and multi-layered exploration on the effects of suicide and the concentric disturbances affected on the human relationships within the 'event's' circle of induction. ANGEL could be regarded as a psychic investigation of the cause and effects of suicide though dislocation and dispossession. The film uses mixed subjectivity as its speaking position, it deliberately confuses temporality with familiarity and trauma.
Aunty Vicki and the Doolagah
- 2002
- Documentary
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Along the coast, and in the forests of NSW there is a spirit, a bad spirit. In 1932 a young girl had a frightening encounter with this spirit. He is called the Doolagah.
Babygirl
- 2008
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Alana has kept her hurt buried deep inside and despite all her partying and risky behaviour the walls that keep her pain in start to crack. Only her sister can help her face the confusion of identity and loss, and give her the clarity and courage to see the other side of her wounded childhood.
Beryl Van-Oploo
- 2015
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Aunty Beryl is a respected Elder of the Redfern community. She is a great advocate for providing opportunities for young Indigenous people in particular, those who had been long term unemployed and for whom ongoing work or a career seemed impossible. Her own life has been one of transformation since she first came to Redfern in the fifties. Now in her mid-seventies she’s imparting her knowledge and skills to mentor her students who are often long term unemployed and often with little schooling, into stable work and ultimately careers.
Birubi
- 2015
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Birubi is the traditional name for Stockton Beach, which is a 32km stretch from Stockton to Anna Bay. It has a huge cultural significance for the area. The earliest inhabitants of the beach were the Worimi tribe, the traditional owners of Port Stephens who spoke the Gathang language. Birubi is about the cultural history of Stockton Beach.
Black Beach
- 2006
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A fast paced, satirical look at beach access, rites of passage and ownership from the perspective of an Aboriginal and mischievously spirited surfer.
Blind Date
- 2007
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Sometimes we meet a stranger who becomes unstrange. In the remote city lights, an unlikely date with destiny leaves an imprint on Rob's world forever. A startling revelation gives him a new direction toward his dreaming.
BYT/ME/I
- 2000
- Short film
- Experimental
- 13mins
- Status: Completed
Three landscapes. Three characters. Multiple identities and emptiness. There are three landscapes with one character in each. This film aims to inform the audience of our concerns of madness, the shifting and swapping of physical, psychological and virtual spaces and identities of the city and its surrounding landscape.
Camping Out
- 2004
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
CAMPING OUT is a short film about a sister, two brothers and a girlfriend. It's a comical look at the diversity of the siblings and their understanding of Aboriginality. It showcases the beauty of Wreck Bay Aboriginal community on the NSW south coast.
The Caretaker
- 2009
- Short film
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
It has been a long time since Willie ‘The Kid’ has entered the ring. But you can only run from your fears for so long and finally he must face a past he would rather forget. Seen through the eyes of an elderly boxer, THE CARETAKER tells the story of two young Aboriginal boys who run away from home to fulfil dreams of becoming professional boxers. After joining a travelling boxing troupe, the boys are forced into a situation they have tried to avoid their entire lives. On the verge of triumph lies tragedy!
Checkerboard Love
- 2004
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Annie and Geoff live together in Sydney. Annie is the daughter of a politically active mother and football-playing father who are Native Title claimants in country NSW. Geoff has dropped engineering to become an interpretative dancer. This is enough for Annie to worry about without him being the son of cockies who are also from rural NSW. CHECKERBOARD LOVE demonstrates the tension between an interracial couple in love, who consciously de-Aboriginalise their flat in preparation for the dreaded meeting of both sets of parents.
The Child Star
- 2007
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Yasmeena is an aspiring child star who is set to star in two short films and a feature film over the next year. THE CHILD STAR explores her journey of self discovery with her Mentors who each want her to be something different, her Father who wants her to be like Shirley Temple, her Mother who wants her to be a Ballerina and her paternal Grandmother who wants her to follow the family tradition and become a medical doctor. Every child is a star.
Closing Stages
- 2006
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
CLOSING STAGES is about lost opportunities, misplaced love, getting old, feeling lost in a new country and desperately trying to relive the past through memories. After migrating to Sydney from Petersburg, Boris meets his former lover, Anuska, by chance on her last day in the city. The scars of insecurities from this affair have never really left Boris. Now he is finally presented with an opportunity for closure.
The Crossing
- 2002
- Short film
- Experimental
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
When nothing can shield a father from loss, he allows the sadness to leave him hollow. But is confronting even the most overwhelming grief really more dangerous than emptiness?
Dare to Dream
- 2000
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Daniel is in love with someone he can never have. During a night of surreal happenings, he comes into contact with Zenit, a being that does things that Daniel would never dream of - or would he? In the end what is real and what is the truth?
Dust Settles
- 2000
- Short film
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
This is a story about the relationship between a young Aboriginal woman and her mother and grandmother, and the love of horses and the station life she leads. It touches subtly on the hidden secrets that come from the white man's abuse of black women, but gently prods the front door to larger issues.
Fade 2 Black
- 1999
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A story of an Aboriginal man, Blaze, and his love for an Irish-Catholic girl, Sarah. Blaze and Sarah's love is very strong indeed. Yet is it strong enough to overcome a sense of cultural identity? Only time will tell.
Fault
- 2009
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
Jimmy is a man in his late forties, sitting alone and depressed in a small run-down room, Jimmy contemplates committing suicide over the remorse he feels from accidentally killing his childhood friend many years ago.
Feel My Absence
- 2004
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
An examination of how people interact unconsciously each day and how the strangers who inhabit our lives affect us. People you have never met create and affect the patterns of your day and it is not until they are gone do you feel the absences in your shared relationship.
Flowerboy
- 2007
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
The Flowerboy, so named by his mother, is not aware of his place in life. He thinks only of the hard walk up the hill, only of his most immediate sense of space and time. He must learn to look outside himself to see the effect his actions have on the world.
Futureman
- 2006
- Short film
- Experimental
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Futureman is the ultimate pop superhero of the late 20th century, who fights for the right to self-determination and personal freedom. Through command of insight, moral courage and his super powers, Futureman confronts his shadow self to realise emancipation from the forces of colonisation that permeate our universe. Futureman is the champion of a moral tale for the postcolonial era.
Geometry
- 2000
- Documentary
- Experimental
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
Addresses the term Terra Nullius (Latin term meaning, 'land belonging to no one') the term used by the British Government to justify the dispossession of Aboriginal people. In the eyes of the British, Indigenous people were merely roaming the land and had no agriculture, social or religious structure. This was of course a falsehood and can be dissolved by looking at the way the land has been mapped by Aboriginal people over the last 120,000 years or more.
Glory
- 2007
- Short film
- Experimental
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Haunted by the memory of her child, Glory is drawn to a broken toy doll in a children’s playground. Imagining the doll to be a real child, and conjuring up the memory of a past lover, Glory builds the family that she has always dreamed about. Yet even in her idyllic fantasies, the past unravels itself, coiling and ready to strike. GLORY examines the stain of love and tragedy that marks a person through the rest of their life.
Greg Simms
- 2016
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Uncle Greg Simms is an Aboriginal Elder in Western Sydney. Uncle Greg belongs to the Gadigal (whale people) of the Dharug nation. Uncle Greg Simms is well known as an activist for reconciliation, a traditional woodcarver, a storyteller and an educator of Aboriginal culture.
Harriet's Daughter
- 2003
- Documentary
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A documentary about Madge Doreen Warren, the last surviving witness of the Mungadai Aboriginal massacre. A brave woman who is reuniting with her family for perhaps the last time, as she has been diagnosed with cancer.
Home
- 2003
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
A young Aboriginal man comes home for his father's funeral to discover his true identity.
Immortal Man
- 2000
- Short film
- Experimental
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Explores one man's struggle with not only his Aboriginality, but also with his self-determination and his self worth. The story will concentrate on this young man's journey through his eyes, his mind, his soul.
Inasmuch
- 2002
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Empti is confused and self-obsessed. Will her endless demands for attention resolve themselves? A beautifully choreographed piece about love, introspection and isolation.
Jubulj
- 2000
- Short film
- 10mins
- Status: Completed
Who is Aboriginal? Which tribe do you come from? Who is your mob? You don’t look Aboriginal. Are you full-blooded? How much Aboriginal blood do you have? Every one of us at some point in our lives has stood up for what we believed in or we finally discovered what we are actually trying to do in this world. We have celebrated this revelation in many ways. That initial step or sentence can have a lasting impact.
Kick It to Me
- 2007
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Mick 'Deadly' Menzies is a retired football champion, and determined his son will follow in his footsteps, but Mick’s daughter, Grace, is the one with the talent to play footy and the passion to play her own game!
Lester Bostock
- 2016
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Lester Bostock is a renowned filmmaker, mentor and Bundjalung Elder. Lester is the inspiration and guiding light for a generation of Indigenous filmmakers
Level Two-Tom
- 1999
- Short film
- Experimental
- 3mins
- Status: Completed
LEVEL TWO-TOM is a component piece of a larger project conceived by Brook to explore the issues of control, domination and conspiratorial alienation. It is intended to be viewed within the context of an installation-based exhibition environment. The piece deliberately deprivileges sound with the intention of heightening the viewer's sense of identity with the alienated subject.
Listen
- 2001
- Short film
- Experimental
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
LISTEN is an acoustic journey of discovery. From birth everyone has the gift of innocence, as time passes our gift can get lost but with the help from our own memories and spiritual assistance, all one has to do is listen.
Mabo
- 2005
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Violent electrical storms across Australia connect hundreds of Indigenous youths who set off on a graffiti awareness campaign. This appears to be in reaction to hastily rescinded Indigenous Land Rights by Australia’s Federal Government. Using chalk, they write one word in beautiful copperplate… Mabo. Their marks are washed away by the next rainfall, but are quickly replaced.
Macadamia
- 2011
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
Stacey is a serial prankster to her friends and work colleagues, that is until one night a practical joke goes too way too far.
Mah
- 2008
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
A gritty, realistic and dark meditation on domestic violence. MAH is the story of a family caught in a dilemma they are all trying to escape from. Two brothers bonded through blood and family adversity try to comprehend a world where their father is a violent drunk and their mother is battling to find a way out.
MEAT
- 2014
- Short film
- 9mins
- Status: Completed
Behind the closed doors of an elite boarding school, Matthews and his friends are cruising through life – but when a weekend joyride ends in disaster, he has to deal with the guilt that consumes him.
Memory
- 2005
- Short film
- 7mins
- Status: Completed
According to the filmmaker, MEMORY is about the resilience of love and its power to transcend cultural boundaries. It is also about the finality of death, and the ironic moment of liberation it can give us. How does the death of someone we love affect us and move us to re-examine who we are and where we are going? But we think it also makes insightful points about death and mourning in Aboriginal and Western cultures.
Mulinjahli Muscle Got Hustle
- 2008
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Yarrei is a deadly Kung-fu master who is guided by the spirit of the Jabreen and when that Mulinjahli muscle got of hustle, nothing can stand in the way, not even the Pitt Street Boys.
The Odyssey
- 2006
- Short film
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
It is the night before the final exams and three friends find themselves stranded on the wrong side of town. Based on Homer’s epic, THE ODYSSEY explores the inner turmoil of three young friends in search of their futures.
Quarantine
- 2009
- Short film
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
QUARANTINE is about the feeling of being powerless. Two teenage lovers find this out when they come in contact with a meteorite housing an intergalactic virus.
Reflections in Black and White
- 2006
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
REFLECTIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE is a drama of mystery, intrigue and family secrets. Alice Craig is a successful lawyer whose professional acumen leaves her thoroughly unprepared for the cross-examination delivered by her daughter regarding an old black and white photograph. The challenges of the past and of identity force Alice to face her demons, and present her with an opportunity to exorcise the ghosts of her past once and for all.
Robin Hoodz
- 2003
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Two boys, one black and one white, reinvent the Robin Hood myth in an urban, contemporary context.
Rock Art of the Murramarang
- 2016
- Documentary
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Visit two almost inaccessible rock art sites in the Murramarang tribal area of Southern Coastal NSW.
A Shearer's Life: Introducing the Barker Brothers
- 2008
- Documentary
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
A SHEARER'S LIFE: INTRODUCING THE BARKER BROTHERS is the untold story of eight Aboriginal brothers working together as sheep shearers in Weilmoringle and Bourke, in north-west NSW.
Shelling Peas
- 2010
- Short film
- 14mins
- Status: Completed
Amy and Dean deal with the death of their parents differently, but before they get on with their lives, they first have to get on with each other.
The Shot
- 2008
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
In an explosive showdown, a recently graduated detective discovers his colleague and mentor is the prime suspect in the "impossible case" he's determined to crack. A true film noir movie set in the 1930's.
Speak of Spirit
- 1999
- Documentary
- 4mins
- Status: Completed
A montage of subjective historical narratives about the Native Sovereignty campaigner and organiser, Kevin Gilbert. It is set against the first permanent site of Native Title claim, the Tent Embassy, on the site of the Old Parliament House front lawn. The filmmaker uses a combination of genocide theory and rap as allegorical reagents to infuse the collective personal perspectives that are the voice of this piece.
Starr
- 2001
- Short film
- Experimental
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
STARR is a stylised film set in New York in the 1930s about a 24-year-old high society socialite whose spirit is slowly drowned by the memories of her past.
Susan's Birthday Party
- 2006
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Susan is an Aboriginal girl with red curly hair and fair skin. She shows her Aboriginal story books, clap sticks and boomerangs to the class at school for show-and-tell. The other children don't believe she is Aboriginal until they are invited to her birthday party. Back at school, after the party, there is a common resolve to explore identity and harmony.
Tibooburra my Grandmother's Country
- 2015
- Documentary
- 15mins
- Status: Completed
Amy is a storyteller, a repository of knowledge who connects her family to county. She was trucked off Country and locked up on a Mission. Amy’s family walked off the Mission, but life prevents them from returning to Country. It’s through the spirit world that Amy now returns to her homeland and resting place.
Tightrope
- 2000
- Short film
- 5mins
- Status: Completed
A dark prison cell in 1870 is the setting for this grim story. Jeremiah, an Irish prisoner convicted of murder, sits alone singing a tune as he awaits his execution. Berra, an Aboriginal prisoner incarcerated for theft, joins Jeremiah when the prison governor declares overcrowding in the other cells. During the short time they spend together, they find out that they are two very different people with a common curse.
Unstuck
- 2005
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
UNSTUCK is the story of a young Aboriginal woman who, after more than a year, has yet to come to terms with the death of her husband. One night, her husband's spirit comes back to her, hoping to heal the wounds of separation and move on in her life. As the two spirits reconnect, it becomes clear that the woman will have to choose between remaining stuck in her life with grief, or to become unstuck.
An Urban Love Story
- 2002
- Short film
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
Marla is a Ngarrunga woman who lives in Kings Cross. She's seen the seedier side of life. Sunfly is a travelling cowboy from the Kimberley. Can their feelings for each other override their cultural differences?
White Sound
- 2007
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
An experiential trip into sonic landscapes, WHITE SOUND explores the notion of a 'soundless' existence. Featuring interviews with Phillip Debs and Rania Saab, the film visualises through deaf and hearing impaired observance and impression. Filmed at the National Art School in East Sydney, White Space is a space where noise, silence and imagination converge.
Who Are You?
- 2007
- Short film
- Experimental
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
WHO ARE YOU? is a story of internal conflict and how we accept the many parts of our identity that make us a whole person. How we see ourselves and how we want others to see us do not always meet up. Does society force people to hide parts of who they are within themselves? And can those parts ever be allowed to exist as a whole? WHO ARE YOU? gives a snapshot into a few people's lives, prejudices and identities.
The Wiradjuri Fight to the Bitter End
- 2004
- Documentary
- 6mins
- Status: Completed
This compelling five-minute documentary portrays, in an Indigenous framework, the destruction and desecration of the Wiradjuri people's sacred site by a foreign company, Barrick Gold.
Yearn
- 2005
- Short film
- 8mins
- Status: Completed
Ruby doesn’t respond well to criticism, especially from those she loves. YEARN is about the spoken and often unspoken disapproval experienced by people who are 'different', and the solidarity and loyalty forged among those that share that mantle of exclusion. It is also about love, and how it is made stronger through a defiant unity.

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