"Glenesk" Martindale RoadDenman NSW 2328
p. 02 6547 2064f. 02 6547 2735
Balgo is an Aboriginal community on the northern edge of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia - a strange mixture of an ex-Catholic mission and a government administered community. The isolation of the desert people and the fact that they had little contact with white Australia until the 1940s means that the older people have maintained their cultural traditions. The film provides an intimate look at the community.
Aboriginal band Djaambi goes on tour in the Northern Territory visiting remote and traditional communities. The film shows the cultural meeting from an urban, cosmopolitan and traditional Aboriginal point of view. The story is told partly through the eyes of the filmmakers and partly through the eyes of the band members. The film ends with a radical split between the filmmakers and the band.
An intimate portrait of the King of Tonga as he presides over one of the last great feudal monarchies in the world. A look at how Tonga will survive and change in the next century.
A documentary covering the phenomenon of whistleblowing, centred around the man who revealed the cause of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. This man is now a fugitive. The film will examine why this is.
This film looks at the issue of the assimilation of Aborigines into white Australian society, with particular focus on the case of James Savage, an Aborigine who was adopted at birth and taken to the USA. James Savage is now on 'Death Row' in Florida. Scenes from the courtroom are interwoven with testimony from other 'removed' Aboriginal children to show how much the disruption of James Savage's early life contributed to his becoming a murderer.
This is the true story of Malcolm Charles Smith who, like many Aboriginal people, was taken from his family as a child and died a shocking and early death after a life of institutionalisation and deprivation. In this documentary Richard Frankland, who helped investigate his death for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, revisits Smith's friends and family who tell the story of Malcolm's life and death.