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The arts documentary 900 NEIGHBOURS unravels the story of Northcott, an inner city public housing estate in Sydney, by following the tenants as they develop, rehearse and perform the play, 'StickybrickS' for the 2006 Sydney Festival. High profile Australian performers, including Leah Purcell, Kerry Armstrong and Lex Maronos work with the residents in both developing and performing the show.
A video for children, based on a South American traditional song 'Alicia', performed by Papolote.
It tells the story of four Australian soldiers who are sent on a mission to a war-torn country. They are captured by freedom fighters and produce a hostage video that goes viral.
After 40 years in exile, Aboriginal elders take their most promising young artist to his desert country for the first time.
The story of Arthur Stace, THE ETERNITY MAN runs like a song-line through 20th century Sydney history. Spanning four decades, Arthur Stace's nocturnal mission to chalk his timeless message on the city streets somehow captured its changing soul, and to this day his journey remains its quintessential urban legend.
GIRL IN A MIRROR documents the work of 1970s photographer Carol Jerrems, in a life tragically cut short. Drawing from hundreds of her photographs, the film traces the passionate and exuberant course that Jerrems took through this turbulent decade.
A brother and sister detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force must contend with oddball residents, a serious lack of resources, and their very complicated dynamic with each other and their police chief - who happens to be their father.
The execution of Myuran Sukumaran, the Australian 'Bali Nine' drug smuggler who became an accomplished artist on death row under the tutorship of Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty. Dramatic and archival material takes us into the last 72 hours of Myuran's life and the creation of his final paintings before his death by Indonesian firing squan on Nusakambangan Island, April 2015.
Like fingerprints, hair is a unique signifier of identity and personal history. HAIRTALES is a portrait of 12 unique characters, whose memories of hair reveal secrets and intimate reflections on life changing events and personal experiences. The film explores life as a series of interconnected strands, where tears and trauma, hope and hilarity are all tangled up into one celebration of the human experience. The characters' stories speak for anyone who has hated, lost, reclaimed and restyled their hair. Most importantly, hair tells us all where we've been, who we are, and would like to become.
Iggy and Ace are two gay alcoholic best mates who live, work and play together but after Ace decides to get sober - a rift develops between them as Iggy balks at the idea of recovery.
Bendigo Goldfields, 1855 - The charismatic 'headman' of the White Hills Chinese mining camp suddenly finds himself struggling to maintain the fragile harmony between the Chinese and European diggers, and authorities, when a murdered European woman is discovered to have links with the Chinese community.
OOLDEA is an observational documentary which follows the journey of composer Iain Grandage as he journeys through Spinifex land and culture. The traditional elders of the Great Victoria Desert reveal stories of the Tjukurppa and share Inma (traditional songs) from Ooldea and the surrounding lands. When elders join Iain and the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra to perform, Ooldea becomes a meeting place, a campfire around which history may become a source of shared pride. With deadlines looming and events not going to plan, Iain is forced to confront some of his own personal demons.
OPERA AUSTRALIA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE is a glittering tribute to Australia's national opera company, Opera Australia. In an exclusive interview, diva Dame Joan Sutherland shares some of her memories of this world-renowned opera company, and past and present opera luminaries including maestro Richard Bonynge, Joan Carden, Anson Austin, Robert Gard, David Hobson, Moffat Oxenbould, Neil Armfield and Graeme Murphy offer their personal, candid and often colourful reflections. Containing rare and never-seen-before footage of opera from its very beginning to today, this is a musical history of a truly great opera company.
THE PASSION OF GINA SINOZICH follows artist Gina Sinozich as she opens her first major exhibition in Croatia. Sinozich has only been painting for four years, and is 74 years old.
Every Saturday night over 50 kids converge on one basketball court in Woolloomooloo for the tournament the whole neighbourhood's buzzing over.
The Quinns are the founding family of one of the fastest growing churches in the world, U Star, based in Sydney, Australia. Espousing the belief that financial blessing is the will of God, it's a church for the Instagram age with slick hipster marketing promoting a covetable lifestyle while endorsing a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach to controversial issues. U Star is politically connected and it's raking in over $100 million per year, tax free. With its chart-topping music and 24/7 TV channel, it's an international media company that specialises in selling God. But behind closed doors, the Quinns are a dysfunctional, Machiavellian family - protecting secrets while preaching a message of faith, love and togetherness to their congregations.
A tale of rural wit and a rabbit's paw - here a recipe is featured that is known to most. It's funny, as in funny ha-ha- groan and funny weird.
REVEALED: AMONGST US - NEO NAZI AUSTRALIA is an eye-opening investigation led by 12-time Walkley Award-winner and two-time Australian journalist of the year Nick McKenzie that explores the terrifying rise of neo Nazi activity in Australia.
Traces the origins of Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters' groundbreaking and controversial reports in 2018 and the subsequent stories on 60 Minutes, to Ben Roberts-Smith taking them to court in a defamation trial that ended in 2023.
A journey into the deeply disturbing world of Paul Charles Denyer, the then 21-year old who is currently serving three life sentences for the Frankston murders and who will be eligible to return to the community he terrorised in 2023.
Inspired to make an original, intimate family portrait, Gracie Otto directs a feature length documentary on her father, Barry Otto, whose career in Australian theatre, film and television has spanned more than 50 years. Baz as he is affectionately known is one of a kind - a truly creative, endearing and extremely eccentric personality who embraces the serious and the silly. This story is about Gracie's relationship with her father, in the twilight of his career and his life, as she tries to capture his memories, before his memory disappears. This is not a traditional biopic, but a deeply personal, artistic and cinematic reflection. Sometimes poignant in its exploration of deteriorating health, the film looks at the world through Baz's eyes, an ode to living a passionate life, that both honours him and preserves his memory.
By unveiling the continued exploitation of sex workers in Australia, Revealed: Trafficked highlights the need to eradicate human trafficking syndicates.
A rock-documentary with a difference, RUDELY INTERRUPTED follows a band of disabled individuals on their first world tour. As well as the usual challenges of touring, this band has to contend with aspergers, down syndrome, blindness and deafness. But this doesn't stop them from rocking out. The documentary of the same name follows Rudely Interrupted from the pub stages of Melbourne, to the UN in New York, Canada and the UK.
Despite living in Sydney, one of the gay capitals of the world, 28 year old Poppy is forced online in her search for love. When she meets online 31 year old Anglo/Indian Sandeep Virdi, she thinks she's found the one. Unfortunately, Sandeep lives at home in the British Midlands with her conservative Sikh parents and three younger sisters. And she's not out to any of them!
Produced exclusively by JAM TV, Show Me The Money II is a feature-length documentary that lifts the lid on one of the most turbulent AFL trade periods in the game's history and the collection of colourful characters that helped shape it: The Player Agents. With unprecedented access to the final day of the trade showdown at Marvel Stadium, known as Deadline Day, viewers are taken behind the scenes as the mayhem of the AFL trade period unfolds, with players and agents alike tested to their limits.
After the Grand Final siren, the real business of footy begins. Players, agents and clubs let us in for an unprecedented look inside the deal-making and drama of the AFL off-season.
An up close and personal look at the phenomena of silverchair.
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