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Getting Better

1987
Documentary
60mins
Status: Completed

One of a series looking at different aspects of Aboriginal society. This program about Aboriginal health problems expounds the view that traditional ways might often provide better solutions.

DREAMING OF LORDS is a story about creating an Aboriginal cricket team in 1988 when Bob Hawke was Prime Minister of Australia. The team is created to play at Lords, England. The team and their journey echoes the example of an earlier tour, in 1868, when a historic group of Indigenous cricketers travelled to England under different circumstances.

Exile and the Kingdom

1993
Documentary
111mins
Status: Completed

In the beginning Creation beings lifted the sky and soft world out of the sea. Then the earth became hard... British colonisation in 1863, slavery during the subsequent Pearling boom, the devastating mining booms of the 1960s...The story of the indomitable spirit of the Aboriginal people of Roebourne, north-western Australia... their law, their tribal voice, their continuing struggle against the new colonial forces of the 20th century.

Recollections - Tasmanians at War

2000
Documentary
89mins
Status: Completed

A look at various conflicts of the 20th century that Tasmanians were involved in as told by 35 veterans of these conflicts. Includes various archival footage from the various wars along with personal footage and stills as provided by the participants.

Land of the Little Kings

2000
Documentary
78mins
Status: Completed

'Life is (or ought to be) a journey that ends where it begins' is a fundamental tenet of Aboriginal law. It underpins a view that has meaning and importance to many Australians, black and white. Singer and songwriter Archie Roach, a 'stolen' person, takes us in a circle around Australia beginning at the place of his earliest memory. What happens when circles are broken, particularly early in life's journey? Archie's journey symbolises the search for wholeness and identity. In his modest and non-judgemental way, Archie reveals a path towards the healing of broken circles in this inspirational and moving journey.

Yeperenye Federation Festival: The Road Ahead Concert

2003
Documentary
111mins
Status: Completed

A history of Indigenous Australia through song featuring Yothu Yindi, John Williamson, Troy Cassar-Daly, Warrumpi Band, Teenage Band, Mills Sisters, Frank Yamma and many more.

Night

2008
Documentary
82mins
Status: Completed

NIGHT is a cinematic feature documentary that explores the universal nature of night and how we experience it. NIGHT captures the mystery, mood and magic of the night and weaves these images into a lush and dramatic symphonic score. Voices from all walks of life tell stories of their 'affair' with the night; the pleasure and the pain, reality and fantasy, at work and at leisure, past and present and shows how the darkness of the night affects us all.

Running to America

2011
Documentary
60mins
Status: Completed

RUNNING TO AMERICA is a story about unlikely opportunity. Five young Indigenous men from the Australian Outback are plucked from obscurity by marathon legend Robert de Castella. He’s convinced Indigenous Australians have a natural talent for distance running. The five men come from isolated communities and are cut off from the everyday opportunities that modern youth take for granted. Now these young men are thrown into a brutal 8-month training regime to teach them how to run distance.

Fallout

2013
Documentary
85mins
Status: Completed

FALLOUT is a celebration of the writing of British novelist Nevil Shute’s ‘end of the world novel’ On the Beach, the making of the Hollywood film starring Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck and its ongoing resonance in regard to nuclear proliferation in the world today.

Still Our Country - Reflections on a Culture

2014
Documentary
Experimental
88mins
Status: Completed

With evocative and experientially cinematic visuals and sound, STILL OUR COUNTRY - REFLECTIONS ON A CULTURE documents the swiftly morphing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory. The film is built on fragments and parts presenting a carnival of contemporary ways, the sum of which makes for a bold declaration of identity and a hopeful promise of a future.

Another Country

2015
Documentary
75mins
Status: Completed

The great Australian aboriginal actor David Gulpilil tells the tale of ‘Another Country’, when his people’s way of life was interrupted by ours. This documentary film speaks to the havoc caused by superimposing a new culture over an old culture and the consequent clashes with all manner of things, such as time, money, garbage and errant kangaroos.

Servant or Slave

2015
Documentary
56mins
Status: Completed

Servant or Slave follows the lives of five Aboriginal women who were stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants. With the government exercising complete control over their wages, many thousands of Aboriginal girls and boys were effectively condemned to a treadmill of abuse, from which there was little hope of escape.

The Song Keepers

2018
Documentary
84mins
Status: Completed

In the obscure churches of remote Central Australia, a hidden musical legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages, sacred poetry and baroque music is being preserved by four generations of song women who make up the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir. Against all odds and with the help of their charismatic conductor, the choir embarks on a historic tour of Germany to take back the hymns that were given to their great grandparents by German missionaries, now sung in their own Aboriginal languages. Together they share their music and stories of cultural survival, identity and cross-cultural collaboration. Come on an adventure as the unlikeliest band on earth goes on tour to the other side of the world!

Teach A Man To Fish

2017
Documentary
80mins
Status: Completed

As a fair-skinned Aboriginal man living away from his country, middle-aged Grant struggles with his identity. So, he decides to quit everything and go fishing with his father.

In My Own Words

2017
Documentary
63mins
Status: Completed

Raw, heartfelt, sometimes painstaking but often funny, In My Own Words follows the journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time in their lives.

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