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The women of a remote Papua New Guinean village downstream from the huge polluting Ok Tedi mine describe the impact of the mine waste on their lives.
A cinema verité account of Noam Chomsky's visit to Australia in February 1995.
Focuses on the function of community theatre in Australia, looking in particular at the work of the Italo-Australian company FILEF. The program traces their evolution and processes, capturing the essence of a vital and successful theatre.
COLOUR BARS is an innovatory new documentary which follows the emotions and thoughts of five young people of Non English Speaking Background about the 'hyper-reality' of being born into families with cultures different to the mainstream Australian culture. They talk about the experience of growing up in Australia; personal stories about their own family lives, their experiences of racism, their attitudes to sex, their feelings about their parents and their aspirations for the future.
In Papua New Guinea's remote Western Province the landowners are in a complex struggle with a multinational over their rights and environment. BHP has dumped billions of tonnes of tailings from their Ok Tedi copper mine into Papua New Guinea's largest river system since 1987. In 2001, landowners enlist the support of Australian lawyers to pressure the mine to clean up the mine waste. However the legal process took a dramatic turn when BHP decides to 'exit' the mine.
Through a case scenario set in Pyrmont, one of Sydney's inner city suburbs, the film explores community responses to the community consultation process surrounding major urban redevelopment plans. Traditionally a working class area, Pyrmont has borne the brunt of urban residential demolition. Pyrmont's future includes a major casino complex, heliport, marinas and more. Where does a social mix community fit within this vision of the future, occurring under the guise of urban consolidation?
In 1989 the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that was destroying their land. As a result a blockade was imposed around the island. This is a film about a people who survived for nine years without assistance from the outside world. From scratch they built their own schools and colleges. Without Western medicines or health professionals they turned to their traditional bush medicine, without weapons they made their own guns out of water pipe, without communications they charged batteries using solar power to run satellite telephones and 2-way radios, and without a power station they generated their own electricity by harnessing water energy.
Jimmy is a man in his late forties, sitting alone and depressed in a small run-down room, Jimmy contemplates committing suicide over the remorse he feels from accidentally killing his childhood friend many years ago.
Follows a young class of Aboriginal Studies students on an excursion to meet and learn from Dhanggati Elders and members of the Stolen Generation. A simple but important step forward for our youth.
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 Great Strike 1917 is a documentary about events which shaped Australian society and the labor movement for a century and beyond.
Student filmmaker Caroline Ingvarson experienced the first-hand making of her film about 'Russell', a Sydney man living rough. She not only found his existence shocking but nothing prepared her for the ethical dilemmas she faced with camera in tow.
As a sequel to the documentary, A THOUSAND DIFFERENT ANGLES about sculptor, Inge King, I WANT TO SEE FURTHER explores the legacy of Grahame King, her husband and unsung hero of modern Australian printmaking. During the vibrant and productive 1960's he helped elevate print as an art form in Australia, coinciding with a renaissance of artist-created prints around the world. His key works highlight a significant period profiled in the National Gallery of Australia Works on Paper Collection.
INNOCENCE BETRAYED follows the parents of three murdered Aboriginal children and their long fight for justice. Aunty Muriel, Aunty Rebecca and Uncle Thomas share their tragic story of loss, which happened in the small NSW town of Bowraville within a five-month period in the early 90's. There has only ever been one suspect - a white man known to sell drugs and alcohol to Aboriginal people and who was last seen with the missing children.
A gritty, realistic and dark meditation on domestic violence. MAH is the story of a family caught in a dilemma they are all trying to escape from. Two brothers bonded through blood and family adversity try to comprehend a world where their father is a violent drunk and their mother is battling to find a way out.
Clement Meadmore has been described as Australia's greatest modernist sculptor, yet in 1963, at the age of 34, he left Australia for New York, returning only twice in 45 years. When Meadmore died in 2005, he left behind a body of sculpture installed across the US and in Japan, with only a few, yet significant public pieces in Australia. Yet despite this international recognition, Australia is shamefully slow to embrace his work. This documentary will seek to reclaim and reinstate Meadmore as one of this country's most significant sculptors.
A young filmmaker who has been estranged from her father meets him for the first time. He graphically reveals a long held secret that he is in fact, Susan, his alter-ego as a cross-dresser.
PROTECTING MANUWANGKU showcases the strength and determination of Warlmanpa people, fighting to defend their country from a nuclear waste dump proposed on Aboriginal land at Muckaty in Central Australia. Meet community leaders Dianne Stokes Nampin and Bunny Naburulawho who played critical roles in the eight-year Muckaty campaign which achieved an historic victory in June 2014. But radioactive waste laws continue to target Aboriginal Land and basic rights. Protecting Manuwangku, provides important lessons and inspiration for the many battles to come.
This documentary observes the coming together of six of Australia's finest multicultural musicians: Indian, Japanese, Latin American, Portuguese Indian, African and Australian. Slivanje is a cross-cultural world music ensemble which will profile a strong symbol for Australia's cultural diversity. The style of the film reflects the process that the musicians take to create the music.
STARTING FROM ZERO is the story about three people exiled from East Timor in their youth. Twenty-four years later they've returned to their shattered homeland to contribute to its reconstruction. Meet Ines Almeida, Lola dos Reis and Jacinto Tinocu - three Australian-East Timorese - who are now embarking on arguably the most challenging experience of their lives. STARTING FROM ZERO provides an intimate insight into these individuals as they juggle their aspirations and expectations within two very different cultural experiences.
An examination of the contemporary female condition, through the experiences of Italian women migrants and those of their daughters, by a community theatre group. The film combines staged sequences and interviews to present an appeal to listen, with humour and pathos, from a section of the community which is rarely heard.
The Vietnamese-Chinese New Year celebration is about to start in Cabramatta, known notoriously as the 'heroin capital' of Australia. Markus Lambert, the Community Relations Officer with the local council, sees the event as a PR opportunity for the suburb. But an international diplomatic row and the disagreement over one of the New Year's events - a traditional Flower Festival - threatens to kill the celebration. We follow the dramas, local politics and relationship pressures which unfold as Markus tries to pick up the pieces and takes charge of Cabramatta.
Inge King is one of Australia's foremost modern sculptors whose vision has always been on a grand scale. Born in Berlin in 1918, Inge was forced to flee to London in 1939 where she later met and married Australian painter, Grahame King. When King arrived in Melbourne in 1951, modern sculpture hadn't shown its face. Today Inge King's sculptures are installed in Australian public spaces, but few people would be aware that they are the work of a tiny 88 year old.
Documentary about a major Australian political and security cover-up involving a young Canberra mother-of-two, ASIO, the FBI, the Pan Africanist Congress, Federal Police, threatening letters and firebombs.
In 1985 the Australian federal government announced proposals to relocate major naval facilities to Jervis Bay, on the New South Wales South Coast. Once again the local Aboriginal communities face dispossession of their lands and cultural heritage. These communities propose that Jervis Bay should be preserved as a National Park, run jointly with the Aboriginal people, for the recreation and enjoyment of all Australians.
Richard Swain and his partner, Alison fight to defend the fragile ecology of the Snowy Mountains, when wildfires descend after a decade of drought.
A unique annual athletics camp for Indigenous youth run by Uncle Ritchie (Ritchie Donovan) on the North Coast.
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