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Alive and Kicking
- 2008
- Documentary
- 4 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
A four-part series that follows five unique Tasmanian rural communities as they face the challenge of keeping Australian football alive and kicking.
Bali High Wedding
- 2011
- Documentary
- 30mins
- Status: Completed
Princess Jero Asri Kerthyasa (formerly Jane Gillespie of Sydney) is at the centre of Royal Wedding preparations for her son, Prince Tjok Gus. The bride-to-be is an adored Indonesian ‘soapie’ star and the traditional wedding rituals at The Royal Palace of Ubud are a whole new world for her. Supervising proceedings is Asri’s husband, Prince Tjokorda Raka. The youngest son of his father’s tenth wife, he was expected to marry within the Balinese royals but in 1978 married Jane Gillespie, an Australian commoner.
Death or Liberty
- 2015
- Documentary
- 57mins
- Status: Completed
200 years ago the British Government banishes thousands of its political radicals to a prison without walls at the very end of the known world. From England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Canada they are transported in shackles to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land but their acts of protest and rebellion help build one of the most robust democracies of the modern age. Revered in their homelands as heroic martyrs, their convict lives are an amazing untold story – until now.
Film Australia's Wilderness DVD
- 2004
- Documentary
- 180mins
- Status: Completed
Drawing on a selection of remarkable films from the Film Australia Library and Archives, Office of Tasmania, this thought-provoking and visually stunning two-DVD set explores the concept of wilderness - real and imagined.
First Fagin
- 2012
- Documentary
- 75mins
- Status: Completed
This docu-drama brings to life the dramatic, turbulent career and adventures of Ikey Solomon, the first Fagin…and one of Australia's most infamous convicts. Our story, which moves from London's dens of vice to Australia and Tasmania's prison shores, is set against the background of crime, punishment and the deportation system in 19th century England. In addition it explores how Ikey's life and career interwove with that of Dickens, and inspired his both comic and grim portrait of Fagin.
The Fishermen
- 2004
- Documentary
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
THE FISHERMEN is a one-hour documentary about the life and times of a convicted murderer seen through the eyes of an ex-policeman. The spine of the film is a series of conversations between the two men at 'The Worm Farm' - a large iron shed on a lonely hilltop above the prison compound.
Founders & Survivors: Storylines
- 2011
- Documentary
- Online
- Status: Completed
FOUNDERS AND SURVIVORS: STORYLINES is an online project that springs from the 73,000 Van Dieman's Land convict records; one of the world's great studies of immigration, forced labour and settlement.
History Timeline
- 2009
- Documentary
- Online
- Status: Completed
An interactive timeline that showcases a curated collection of Screen Australia’s history documentaries plus related web resources from the National Archives of Australia, National Library of Australia and the National Museum of Australia.
Holy Switch
- 2012
- Documentary
- 3 x 30mins
- Status: Completed
Six young Aussies will put their faith to the test in a new Compass series that challenges them to live a totally different life for two weeks. HOLY SWITCH follows six young adults aged 18–25 as they switch places for two weeks with someone from a completely different religious background. The three-part series produced by Roar Film and directed by Varcha Sidwell follows participants as they challenge themselves to explore the deeper issues in their lives by experiencing what it’s like to live by a whole new set of rules, cultural practices and perspectives.
kanalaritja - An Unbroken String
- 2017
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
kanalaritja: An Unbroken String tells the story of Tasmanian Aboriginal shell stringing; a story of survival and resilience. Guided by the words of the stringers themselves, the film takes us on a journey through generations of tradition bringing together necklaces old and new, rare archival imagery and sublime landscape in a celebration of this ancient cultural practice.
Left Luggage
- 1997
- Short film
- 12mins
- Status: Completed
Billy leaves his home in remote western Tasmania and comes to the city. Belle is an alcoholic country singer on a downhill spiral. Although they never actually meet, their paths cross many times in a single day.
Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky
- 2020
- Documentary
- 60mins
- Status: Completed
A songline for 21st century Australia – a fresh look at the Cook legend from a First Nations’ perspective – the songline tells of connection to country, resistance and survival and features the cheeky, acerbic and heartfelt showman – Steven Oliver and a host of outstanding Indigenous singer/songwriters.
The Mission
- 2009
- Documentary
- 4 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
THE MISSION is a four-part documentary series about three young Nigerian priests who journey from equatorial Africa to Australia’s island state, Tasmania, as modern day missionaries
Portrait of a Distant Land
- 2008
- Documentary
- Animation
- 60mins
- Status: Completed
Ricky Maynard is a Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer driven by a need to reveal his people’s true history. From the Message Stick series.
Pulp
- 1997
- Documentary
- 55mins
- Status: Completed
An opera charts the history of a town and pulp mill. The film parallels this history through the writing and performance of the opera.
Real Life Water Rats
- 2005
- Documentary
- 4 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
REAL LIFE WATER RATS is an observational documentary series that follows a group of highly trained Tasmanian marine policemen and women as they scramble dive teams in raging seas, lead the war against illegal fishing and drug smuggling, and keep a tenuous peace between professional and amateur fishermen.
Shacks
- 2004
- Documentary
- 4 x 26mins
- Status: Completed
Episode one 'NO. 1 DOCTOR’S ROCKS' looks at the cultural phenomena of the ‘shack’ through the eyes of Tasmanian historians, writers, builders, bureaucrats and ‘shackies’. As we visit shacks and shack communities from Bruny Island in the south to Sandy Cape on the far west coast, we learn about Tasmania’s unique crown land selection process. Episode two 'TITANIA’S PALACE' looks at ‘the shack’ in terms of activity rather than architecture. We meet the Tasmanian fishermen and hunters, the recluses, the cooks, the artists, the poets, the tinkerers and the gardeners.
Skullbone Plains
- 2014
- Documentary
- 27mins
- Status: Completed
Some of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary artistsare immersed in the remote ancient lands of Skullbone Plains. From the inspiration that comes from the retreat to exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TMAG, this is a rich and surprising journey that embraces landscape, isolation and the creative process. Could this be a new model that marries arts and environmental funding, remarkable artists forging a connection for us all with wild lands?
Tartarus
- 2020
- Documentary
- 90mins
- Status: Production
Tartarus follows a team of passionate cavers exploring the caves of Tasmania’s Florentine Valley. They are searching for one of the most inaccessible places in Australia, the Junee Florentine Master Cave.
The Village
- 2022
- Documentary
- Online
- 52mins
- Status: Completed
At a time when aged care is under intense scrutiny, a radical new development in Hobart aims to turn dementia care on its head by focussing on the individual and their life experiences as the basis for future care.
The Voyage
- 2015
- Interactive
- Game Online
- Status: Completed
The Voyage is an online game where the player takes the role of the Surgeon Superintendent of a convict transport ship in 1839 on a perilous journey from England to the far reaches of the known world - Van Diemen’s Land. Successful completion of a convict voyage in the shortest time with minimum loss of life or sickness of prisoners is the way to make money and gain reputation and position.

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