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8MMM Aboriginal Radio in Alice Springs runs on the smell of an oily rag, the enthusiasm of its motley Indigenous crew and the misguided intentions of the whitefellas in charge. For the 3M's of Alice Springs - the missionaries, mercenaries and misfits - saving Aboriginal people from themselves is hard work. Especially Aboriginal people who expect to be heard on the radio and in the office. Princess Pictures and Brindle Films bravely step into the vortex of Aboriginal Australia, where truth and comedy collide.
In remote NSW a young city doctor gets bamboozled by the gentle cunning and stunning art of six local Aboriginal women.
Exploring the dynamic world of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists, including the pre-eminent collection at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Five senior Alywarr lawmen, take a 450km trip from their Central Australian community of Ali Curung to visit the sacred sites of a significant Dingo Songline.
One day unfolds through the eyes of 12-year-old Janine when she goes with her foster parents to meet her biological family for the first time. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
This is the story about the crippling health affects of diabetes and obesity in Indigenous communities throughout Australia and one man’s love for life battling to stay alive and fight against the demon called obesity and diabetes.
Indigenous people, young and old, living and coping with the ever increasing incidence of kidney disease.
Five very different Indigenous women come together from all over Australia for a girls' night out. Anchored in the preparations for their big night out, the documentary moves between that night and explorations of each of the women’s lives. While these women certainly share a bond of history and identity, there are complex cultural differences between them and varying depths of Aboriginal knowledge and awareness.
In a far North Queensland town surrounded by cane fields, a time capsule is unearthed at a local high school, plunging the town back into the past and the unsolved murder of one of its students.
BLACK TALK is about two cousins, Tim and Scott, who reunite after many years apart. This one day they revisit their past whilst embracing their future. Children they are no longer, adults they have become, friends they remain forever.
BLOOD LINES is about finding your heritage in urban Australia. Finding out where your blood runs... Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
In her search for answers, a granddaughter's questions lead to the discovery of self and a chance to embrace the complexities of family. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
It is Daniel's 21st and he is nowhere to be found. Something has gone terribly wrong. His return home may only be in mind and spirit, but at least he has the time to talk to his mother one last time.
THE DJARN DJARNS is the story of a friendship between four boys, the responsibility they feel for their culture and the love a young boy has for his father.
Amos enlists two larrikin miners into his ingenious way to make money from an unsuspecting tourist, who walks into the plot and gets less than what he bargained for. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
DREAMTIME TO DANCE explores the lives of a group of young dancers at NAISDA, Australia's premiere Indigenous dance college. The series reveals how the characters survive the intense discipline and creative demands of the college whilst also exploring NAISDA’s own struggle to survive on limited funds. DREAMTIME TO DANCE will combine the visual imagery and movement of dance with an underlying social and political commentary about the position and condition of our Indigenous community in Australia.
If your Dad wore a dress, would it make him less of a father, less of a man?
THE FAMILY LAW gives a vivid glimpse inside the gloriously dysfunctional world of a hilarious and heart-warming Chinese- Australian family through the eyes of 14-year-old Benjamin.
This up close and personal series gives an exclusive insight into modern Indigenous family life through the eyes of nine sisters and their mother. Angela, Shenika, Helen, Kelly, Kiara, Sharna, Aleisha, Jessica and Hannah navigate their way though adolescence and adulthood as their mother, Daniella, tries to teach them life lessons. With their own unique senses of humour and style, the girls learn to juggle their own aspirations with the reality of everyday life.
The boundaries between fiction and reality merge as three stories of love, family and relationships play out amidst homelessness, drugs and crime. Set in infamous Cabramatta, widely regarded as the 'crime and drug capital' of Australia, the film is a glimpse into the lives of those youths whom we notice living on the streets, but belong to the 'brick wall' that we see but never hear from.
FOOTY: THE LA PEROUSE WAY is the story of a small Aboriginal community located in bustling multicultural Sydney. It is the journey of a community, whose beginnings were marked by racial division and the suffering it brought, and their embracing of football as a starting point to put these historic differences behind them, forging what has now become a unique and prosperous mix of black and white cultures, working together side-by-side in all aspects of life, with respect, honour, integrity and trust.
Many people know of Bonita Mabo, widow of the late Eddie Mabo, and the historic native title claim they successfully fought on behalf of his Torres Strait Islander people. Few realise that Bonita is an Australian of South Sea Islander and Aboriginal descent, or how, through decades of work for Indigenous rights, she raised 10 children, often single-handedly. Since her husband's death, Bonita has a new campaign and recognition for her own people. In this program, she looks back over decades of struggle and commitment and speaks of the pride she takes in sharing her heritage with her grandchildren and the wider community.
Head of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. One brother is in jail, another brother is in love with the daughter of a family enemy and his wife has run away, leaving him to raise two daughters. His sister-in-law is in love with him, his car repair shop is about to go under and his mother is giving him advice, despite the fact that she died in 1990. Can he find a way to honour his promise to her that he will keep the family together?
Grace lives a comfortable life with her family, however she must return for the funeral of her sister and confront the family she has never met, a past she has forgotten and the spirit of her country.
Fuzzy Mac’s life is turned upside down on her 13th birthday when she discovers she can communicate with spirits! It’s hard enough navigating the highs and lows of becoming a teenager while living with your eccentric Nan and Pop. Throw in a host of needy spirits, mischievous totems and spooky ancestors, and you have a recipe for a whole lot of trouble! GRACE BESIDE ME is a 13 x 26-minute live action series for 8 – 12 year olds that combines whimsy, adventure, comedy and drama. The series takes audiences on an emotional roller coaster ride, following Fuzzy, as she learns to accept her gift and understand the meaning of ‘grace’.
Every night, DJ Kenny hosts the 'Green Bush' show for Aboriginal inmates and their families. Isolated at the station, he gets many mysterious visitors. Are they escaping the cold, hiding, or trying to control the information?
Charlie Company is one of four companies from the 51st Battalion based in the Torres Strait. It is the most racially integrated unit in the Australian Defence Force: the soldiers, both black and white, are proudly united by the green of their camouflage uniforms. It's their job to detect threats before they can penetrate our vast and often remote coastline. Prepare yourself for battle alongside the Green Warriors. Part of Message Stick series.
Ethel and her friend Mary resort to an unlikely occupation at night to top up their pensions. Ethel's daughter is horrified when she discovers they are not really 'playing cards'. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
Explores one man's struggle with not only his Aboriginality, but also with his self-determination and his self worth. The story will concentrate on this young man's journey through his eyes, his mind, his soul.
After a campaign spanning three decades, an Aboriginal community fields a football team in the regional competition and sets out to prove their mettle by winning the premiership in their first year. Follow the Tiwi Bombers through their first season in the big league as they strive to fulfil the dreams of their grandfathers. This inspirational series examines the struggle of a disadvantaged Aboriginal community as they try to compete with mainstream Australia on the sporting field.
A Chicago criminal screws up the heist of his life and is forced to hide out in a reef town in Far North Queensland posing as the new church Reverend.
Gina, a young Aboriginal mother, finds herself in a predicament when her husband, Max, returns home and learns the truth about baby Jacob.
Kevin Levi is a part of the new Ranger Program for the Torres Strait. Predominately the Straits have had a strong Border Patrol and have not been a part of the ranger’s scope.
Cruise the streets of Fitzroy with Mutti Mutti songman Kutcha Edwards and some of our most loved Indigenous artists sharing their stories of this iconic suburb - it’s a chance for a laugh, a few songs and a yarn and passing on a bit of the real history … Join us for the ride!
Violent electrical storms across Australia connect hundreds of Indigenous youths who set off on a graffiti awareness campaign. This appears to be in reaction to hastily rescinded Indigenous Land Rights by Australia’s Federal Government. Using chalk, they write one word in beautiful copperplate… Mabo. Their marks are washed away by the next rainfall, but are quickly replaced.
May Lui is an elder from the Poruma Community in the Central Islands of the Torres Strait, reflects on the immense and full life she has had as a daughter, sister, mother, Grandmother and teacher.
Frank Shoveller has been teaching his daughter, Leanna, music since she was very young. The father and daughter team demonstrate their special relationship as Frank guides his daughter into the world of adulthood and the music industry while holding firmly to traditional and cultural values.
MIDAS is a retelling of the story of King Midas and the Golden Touch. It is told from the perspective of the narrator who was read the tale over and over again as a child. The film begins brightly but becomes darker as some of the narration's unspoken implications are revealed.
White Australia is to formally meet Black Australia and confront a dramatic force for change. Both sides have been asked for a measure of agreement and harmony not achieved since Britain raised her flag on this continent 200 years ago. The program proposes a story that examines black and white, close at hand, unfolding on the great cattle stations of the world in and around Alice Springs and on the beautiful lands of Alcheringa, the Aboriginal Lands of Eternity.
This is the story of the Naja - the creation spirit beings - and their journey from Dabberdabbergun in the West to the land of the rising sun, creating life and importantly, water, as they travel.
A landmark exhibition on the history of the Australia - China trade in trepang (sea cucumber) opens in Beijing. It is the culmination of an extraordinary partnership between artists ‘Joe’ Xiaoping and the late Aboriginal artist JBB, forged over 20 years in remote Arnhem Land. As JBB’s son Paul and brother Peter attend the exhibition opening, Joe’s fascinating story unfolds in a compelling series of glimpses into his life and work.
A rural romance whose heroine braves love, longing, lust and loss. It draws on the beauty of the central west of NSW.
Stories of our country by our Elders. Elders to be interviewed on country and reminisce, whether about a dreamtime story or a birthing place area, or a memory of the old homestead and/or mission, this is about our elders sharing their memories and country.
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.
THE CAPE is an intimate portrayal of an isolated community forever changed by tragedy.
Two boys, one black and one white, reinvent the Robin Hood myth in an urban, contemporary context.
Rosehaven is a small (fictional) town in Tasmania, it is proper country, beyond the reach of tree changers. Daniel is moving home to take over the family real-estate business while his domineering and frankly terrifying mother is incapacitated. Daniel’s best friend and perpetual teenager, Emma, arrives at Daniel’s door, hiding out from a marriage that didn’t last the honeymoon. Daniel offers Emma a job and together they try and turn around a failing business coping with unreasonable landlords, stubborn tenants, sullen staff and never ending (sometimes quite intrusive) invitations to join the local mixed netball team. Created by and starring Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola, Rosehaven will be a primetime series for ABC, shot entirely in regional Tasmania.
Series three finds best mates Daniel and Emma now firmly ensconced as bona fide real estate agents, weathering the storm of recalcitrant landlords, anxiety inducing tenants, an overbearing boss (Daniel’s mum) and a town where a 24 hour emergency butcher is considered a normal part of life. And to come will be big changes in Dan’s and Emma’s personal lives, and a real estate opportunity that threatens to divide the whole town…
The multi-award-winning ABC comedy series takes viewers to the quirky and loveable town of Rosehaven for a fourth season. Written by and starring two of Australia’s favourite comedians Luke McGregor and Celia Pacquola, Rosehaven follows the story of two friends and unlikely real estate agents, Daniel (McGregor) and Emma (Pacquola). Series four finds the best friends and workmates now housemates again too - they’re spending every waking moment together. It’s fine, but is it too much, even for best friends? Daniel and Emma are hitting their stride at work and getting into the groove of selling houses, but change is upon the town – including some competition. In their personal lives, they try new ways to find love in Rosehaven (but not with each other. GROSS).
From the Tiwi Islands, this part ghost story and part romance is about a man in love with a married women.
A serious but frightening and nervously funny documentary series that follows two inquisitive Aboriginal men who hunt the lands where legends and myths roam, asking the questions others dread to query. Presenter/Investigators Zac James and Hunter Page-Lochard encounter locals, storytellers, elders and even non-believers as they attempt to discover the truth behind the scary stories that petrify, guide and teach us life’s lessons.
When 11-year-old Whalen spies a Special Forces dinghy off the jetty, the whole town gets in on the action to outdo the professionals at their own game. Set in the Torres Strait Island communities of Barnaga and Seisia, SHARPEYE tells the story of the Charlie Company. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
Forgotten soul, Mary, an Aboriginal woman is confined on a cattle station and used by the stockmen for their pleasure. Mary makes an unlikely friend in the new station hand, Victor, an Aboriginal man, whose father is white. As their interest in each other grows, their lives intertwine. When she is reminded of her duties on the station, her relationship with Victor is threatened. Mary must find the courage to fight for her freedom.
A montage of subjective historical narratives about the Native Sovereignty campaigner and organiser, Kevin Gilbert. It is set against the first permanent site of Native Title claim, the Tent Embassy, on the site of the Old Parliament House front lawn. The filmmaker uses a combination of genocide theory and rap as allegorical reagents to infuse the collective personal perspectives that are the voice of this piece.
STARR is a stylised film set in New York in the 1930s about a 24-year-old high society socialite whose spirit is slowly drowned by the memories of her past.
Stories about belonging, Profiles of members of your community. Slices of life of a person, a day in a life of. This show is about profiling and doing biographies of our stories. Whether young or old, everyone has a story to tell.
17 year-old Thomas has to front his domineering mother Marlene who isn’t interested in his side of the story. Forced outside as punishment, Thomas is left with hurt and frustrations until sounds from neighbours enter his conscious world echoing a connection to Thomas's past and present home triggering him to make a life changing decision.
A dark prison cell in 1870 is the setting for this grim story. Jeremiah, an Irish prisoner convicted of murder, sits alone singing a tune as he awaits his execution. Berra, an Aboriginal prisoner incarcerated for theft, joins Jeremiah when the prison governor declares overcrowding in the other cells. During the short time they spend together, they find out that they are two very different people with a common curse.
Ben's plea for forgiveness leads to a shocking discovery. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.
From the wild to the racetrack, Australians and their camels take us on an amazing journey to discover the heart and soul of their country.
The beauty of Indigenous art and the sometimes-devious practices in the global art market take Detective Toni Alma on an epic hunt for a killer. Spanning her small Northern Territory community and art galleries across the globe, this is a murder mystery like no other, exploring culture, community and the very human pursuit of identity and belonging.
Thirteen-year-old Jason is going through the changes to become a young man. His mother sends him to the only decent role model she can think of, his paternal grandfather, for a holiday at a small coastal town. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
Two brothers face a crisis of dignity, which causes them to examine their relationship and sets them on a quest to become indeed, two big boys. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
THE URAB DANCERS are serving as a beacon for the young Porumagul people of the Torres Strait who believe that language and dance have something to offer them, and indeed that they have something to offer in return. They have shared their cultural performances and stories with wider audiences and this year plan to undertake a tour to several destinations on mainland Australia. What's in store for a group of young people who are now realising their cultural past holds the key to their very modern future?
A young married couple, Josh and Lisa, are driving home from a dinner party with their four-year old daughter when they are run off a country road by a pair of drunken teenagers and left to die. After three days without food, water or any chance of being rescued, a loaded gun under the driver’s seat may be their only way out.
A pregnant woman must survive in a dystopian world without water.
The journey – to the top and beyond it – has been full of discoveries for this group of Indigenous sports stars. In WHO WE ARE IN SPORT Nova Peris, Mark Ella, Kyah Simon, Des Abbott, Phil Krakouer and Anthony Mundine talk about their experiences, achievements and challenges on the track, in the ring, on the sports field – and in life. Hosted by Aaron Pedersen and richly illustrated with contemporary and archive material of these and other Indigenous athletes in competition, "Who We Are - In Sport" offers a rich, stimulating and personal insight into the lives of some of our country's greatest champions.
Introducing the Brave New Clan. We six young Indigenous Australians welcome you into our lives and invite you on a journey across the country. From the bustling streets of Sydney to the aquamarine vistas of the Torres Strait, from the spectacular gorges of the Kimberly to the lush falls of Kakadu, we explore the cultural traditions of our forebears, the contemporary paths we have chosen and our struggles along the way. These are our stories of courage and this is WHO WE ARE today.
WRONG KIND OF BLACK, set in the 60s and 70s is based on experiences from the extraordinary life of Boori Monty Pryor, author and storyteller, who grew up in Townsville before moving to Melbourne to pursue modelling and DJing. From the cops and crocs of Queensland, to the disco dance floors of Melbourne, this is a hilarious, inspiring and heart breaking story of an Aboriginal man who stood against the tide of Australian racism, refusing to be labeled 'the wrong kind of black’.
Ruby doesn’t respond well to criticism, especially from those she loves. YEARN is about the spoken and often unspoken disapproval experienced by people who are 'different', and the solidarity and loyalty forged among those that share that mantle of exclusion. It is also about love, and how it is made stronger through a defiant unity.
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