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As the tall ships sailed into Sydney Harbour to mark the Bicentennial, over 30,000 Aboriginal people from every corner of Australia marched for justice, hope and freedom. The march was the largest gathering of Aboriginal people this country has ever seen and a reminder that white Australia has a black history.
It shocks many people to learn that the number of Aboriginal children being removed today by welfare agencies is much higher than during the time of the Stolen Generations. After the Apology is a landmark documentary exploring the continued practice of child removal and the community response. Grandmothers Against Removal are fighting back and bringing the children home.
There is a new generation of warriors coming out of Palm Island, a place with a dark history and a less than stellar reputation. A new era of hope, strength and courage is about to show the world that the kids from Palm Island are fighting back and have the makings of champions. This group of boxers are defying stereotypes and taking the future into their own hands with the help and support of Uncle Ray – the man who has brought boxing back to Palm Island.
Destination Arnold tells the story of two Indigenous women who share a big dream – to make it to the Arnolds – an invitation-only bodybuilding competition being held in Australia for the first time. To get there they will have to endure months of training, dieting and hard work if they stand a chance of getting up on stage. Throughout the film we follow Tash and Kylene as they push their bodies to the limit sacrificing family and friends all for one purpose.
Entrepreneurial Elvis has a dream and hatches a plan to escape her seaside Caravan Park - by selling cans of soft drink once the local store has shut. She wants to raise enough money to make her way to a posh boarding school in the city. That is until her Mum finds her treasure and risks it all.
Fred Maynard (1879-1946) was an Aboriginal activist and rights campaigner who, in 1925 Maynard launched the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association. Initially, its office-bearers were all men from the mid-north coast, except for McKenzie-Hatton who was organizing secretary. The group protested against the revocation of north-coast farming reserves; they also demanded that children no longer be separated from their families, or indentured as domestics and menial labourers. The A.A.P.A. advocated that all Aboriginal families should receive inalienable grants of farming land within their traditional country, that their children should have free entry to public schools, and that Aborigines should control any administrative body affecting their lives.
The untold story of how a band of renegade surfer girls in the 1980s fought to create their own professional sport, changing the face of international surf culture forever.
An uncertain future dawns upon two young best friends as one of them is moving away from their coastal hometown. The catalyst of their separation is the splitting up of Corey’s Parents. Their way of dealing with it is skateboarding as the descending sun marks a new point in their lives.
In ONE MIND, ONE HEART, Larissa Behrendt uncovers the extraordinary history of the three landmark Yirrkala Bark petitions that sparked the flame towards recognition of Aboriginal rights in the 1960s. When a fourth bark petition is found in Derby, Western Australia in 2022, the community begin the ceremony of guiding its journey back to Yolgnu Country. The repatriation provides the opportunity to track the long political campaign - through petition, song, dance, campaigning - to keep culture strong and to have a voice for country.
Rosemary Valadon is an award-winning Australian artist, now based in the historic town of Hill End. This film explores her life story, her influences and her practice. It traces her major work – large triptych still-lifes that capture the seasons of Hill End. Against the dramatic change of seasons, this film is a portrait of one of Australia’s under-appreciated women artists and the Hill End community that has been a deep source of strength and creative inspiration for her.
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