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25 are two unknown, indie songwriters in a bare bones studio on a train in the industrial West of Melbourne - Australia’s music capital. 25 plan to write, record then release a fresh song every two weeks of the year. Cath loves pop, Nick loves garage rock. She wants jazz flute, he wants a dirty guitar. Is this ever going to work, are they totally deluded, is it an impossible goal?
Leverne McDonnell was an Australian actor. When she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer she wanted to make a statement about voluntary euthanasia. This documentary ia about how she lived her life and her death - both with great humour.
Claustrophobic drama sent in the summer of 1973 against the backdrop of day-to-day social and political turmoil including the sacking of the Whitlam government. Two people meet: the gap between their intellectual and emotional response widens as their relationship develops.
When Joey, a prisoner on the run, takes Reginald, an accountant, as his hostage, he gets more than he bargained for.
The first part of The First Interview completes a documentary begun in Paris 124 years ago, on the 100th birthday of the great French scientist Michel-Eugene Chevreul. His conversation with the famous photographer Nadar - relaxed, witty and wise - is the first on-camera interview in history. The film also sketches in their long and influential lives, and brings the 1886 photographs to life in a highly original way. The second part of The First Interview shows the whole process of turning these famous still photographs and original text into an 'impossible movie': a 'talkie' interview from 1886!
Four different women, each with a well-hidden secret that, if revealed, could slash the fabric of their lives. Through a veil of lies all four flirt with the truth as they experience betrayal, ambition, loneliness, pain and anger. But the lies they tell themselves might be the ones that hurt the most.
IN BETWEEN is about a group of four adolescents from different ethnic backgrounds growing up in a multicultural society. It shows the pressures on them, the conflicts and difficulties they have to face, and the decisions they have to make as they are pushed into adulthood.
JOE CAMILLERI has been rocking the pubs and clubs of Australia for more than 4 decades, as well as making close to 30 CDs and producing countless more. This documentary is a migrant story of Joe’s family spanning from Malta to Melbourne and a history of the Australian music scene via Joe’s two main bands Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons and The Black Sorrows.
A witty and compassionate story of a teenage girl coming to terms with her family and herself when she learns that her mother is critically ill. Adapted from a novel by Bron Nicholls.
Music affects our development from the womb to the grave. This documentary examines the role music plays in developing our brains as humans, beginning with premature infants in neonatal intensive care wards, moving through the role of music in enhancing performance in childhood (including discussion of the Mozart effect), the role of music therapy in hospital patients, and finally looking at the elderly. Music is good for our health - as non-Western tribal cultures have always known - and this documentary shows you how and why.
When Robert sets Nick up to pinch the diary that Hilary prizes, he is doing more than just teasing her. As the teacher explains to them, it is sex-based harassment. Sex-based harassment (rather than sexual harassment) is now being talked about at primary school levels as our understanding of the construction of gender grows.
A contemporary drama which explores the motivation for a woman to commit murder, based on her Catholic upbringing and her recent involvement with a young surrogate mother.
Rachel is a single mother and a very resilient young woman who has faced many problems in her life. Now she wants brain surgery to rid her of the epilepsy that is ruling her life. This observational documentary follows her through the assessment process for this surgery and the subsequent brain surgery, with many dramas along the way.
A hot and weird Christmas in the suburbs. Mott dreams of snow, Trace and Raoul seek real coffee, Jane and Bruce just want to meditate. But when things turn ugly, only the Rhino can save the day.
Although he has played music most of his life, Seaman Dan only released his first album 'Follow the Sun' at the age of 71 years old. It won ScreenSound Australia's Inaugural National Folk Recording Award in 2001. His third album 'Perfect Pearl' won the Best World Music album at the 2004 ARIA Awards, and in 2005 he won the Red Ochre Award (the Australia Council's premier Indigenous artist's award). Seaman Dan and his friends have lived and worked in the maritime industry in Torres Strait since the 1940s. He tells wonderful anecdotes of this time, and his recollections recreate a time and atmosphere that is both romantic and highly dangerous. SEAMAN DAN AND FRIENDS: WELCOME TO THE TORRES STRAIT tells a history that is unknown to most Australians, and which we will soon lose if their stories are not heard.
Fifteen-year-old Sarah is at a crisis point in her life - she has to cope with deafness, her mother's boyfriend, peer group acceptance and an increasing sexual awakening.
In this political satire Diane Lane steps on a few toes as she conspires her way to the top job in the land and becomes Australia's first woman Prime Minister.
THEY CAME FOR THE GATHERING documents the first STORIES AND SONGS OF THE PEOPLE event held in Australia. In a time when issues such as reconciliation were (and still are) prevalent, this event resulted from the desire for a celebration of Australian Aboriginal culture as well as the desire to establish a cultural and educational exchange between Indigenous cultures from around the globe. It gave a stage for many Aboriginal artists to express their vision for a collective future through music.
Through several generations of one family, OUR PLACE AND TIME traces the shape of life and death in an Australian suburb: Taringa (Postcode 4068). The award-winning architect Rex Addison and his wife, the writer Susan Addison, describe the genesis of the homes they have created for themselves and their children. Using graphics, animation and photographs as well as archival footage and new material, Taringa 4068: Our Place and Time deals with the intersection between domestic architecture and ordinary family life, the idea of home itself, and finally the hard-won wisdom that 'buildings have a destiny, just like human beings'.
TRAPS deploys fictional characters in interaction with real events to explore aspects of Australian political culture during the first term of the Hawke Labor government, 1983-85.
A look at the most bizarre and riveting group of international sporting champions you're every likely to meet - the Australian Women's Tug of War team. An unusual bunch of women competing in an unusual sport, they each have a personal struggle behind their quest for gold as they take on the world at the 2001 World Games in Japan.
Population growth has been left out of the climate debate because it is considered controversial, yet it is one of the most important factors. The global population has passed the 7 billion mark and India will soon overtake China as the most populous nation in the world, but one state in southern India has found the solution.
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