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This documentary series comprises six half-hour biographies featuring the lives and works of contemporary Australian Aboriginal artists. Each episode profiles an individual artist who is an exemplary exponent working in the visual arts, theatre, music and/or dance. It features male and female points of view, different regions of Australia and different conceptions of Aboriginality.
'Australian Rules Football is more than a game for Aboriginal people...' So says Bill Dempsey MBE, himself a football legend, who narrates this story of a group of men who knocked down the barriers of racism on the sporting field. On the way they established a way of life based on tolerance, respect and an ethic of making your own fun whatever obstacles are placed along the path. BUFFALO LEGENDS allows the descendants of the original legends to tell us, with their own in-your-face humour and candour, how multiculturalism was established in Darwin, long before the word was invented and why it is still worth fighting for.
The day-to-day lives of ordinary Australians from an unusual and illuminating perspective - their own. The approach involves handing the camera over to the subject and getting them to tell their story in their own way.
'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.
Monica Jones returns to Government House ballroom where, as 'Miss Coolbaroo', she was belle of the ball 50 years before. MISS COOLBAROO is a haunting biography of hope, loss and courage.
SOMETHING CLOSE TO HELL explores the stuggle of burns survivors during their physical and emotional recovery. Filmed over a period of five months, the program follows teenage school-mates, Ashley Manning and Daniel Cartlidge, from just after their admission to hospital, to their release and subsequent period of recovery. They are assisted in the recovery process by former burns patients who have also survived this kind of ordeal.
A timeline of Aboriginal oral history communication from pre-contact times to the present day through poetry coming to life on screen.
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