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From Cape Town to Cairo, a young Australian filmmaker, Michael Davie travels 8,500 kilometres overland though some of Africa's most volatile and spectacular territories armed only with a video camera and rucksack. As a childhood exile from Zimbabwe's War of Independence, Michael returns to begin a journey into the lives and dreams of African youth.
Julian Burnside, QC and refugee advocate, along with his wife, Kate Durham, fight for the social justice and liberties of refugees fleeing to Australia and then detained in detention centres.
On the troubled path from civil war to civil society how effective is truth and reconciliation Bougainville style? Belinda seeks the courage to confront the killer of her husband. Two longstanding enemies and powerful leaders, Jonathon and Nick, are brought to a ceremony to break bows and arrows together. William the absent chief returns on foot to his hostile community, whilst Marceline and her mother wrestle with their grief over a killing they can see no way to reconcile.
Nowhere is as ravaged by fires as Australia. 2013 was the hottest year on record and our land was ablaze. Each fire season the battle rages as we go Inside the Inferno in this 2-part documentary series exploring the deadly natural enemy that affects us all. Australia has the largest firefighting force in the world with a volunteer army of over 200,000 - double that of the military. More than a million Australians have built homes in fire zone areas. BUSHFIRES - INSIDE THE INFERNO is the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of the science of Australian bushfires.
A priest on holidays decides to have one encounter with a young prostitute.
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.
The Rural Fire Service is the largest volunteer fire fighting force in the world - ordinary Australians always on call to save lives and homes. These are their stories.
As the dawn of the new millenium breaks, history's bravest little ship will be sent forth and journey back through time. Our Little Dove will be a time machine sailing through 400 years of history on a mission to reveal the true story of the Dutch discovery of the world's last habitable continent, Terra Australis.
Online documentary. A journey back through time on board the 'Duyfken' to the first Euorpean discovery of Australia in 1606. www.littledove.org
Secrecy, conspiracy, obsession and an incredible conviction to dare to dream and defy the impossible. The incredible story of three men who design, build and fly the world's first real Jetpack around the Statue of Liberty.
At night the cracked, dimly-lit pavements of Kings Cross swarm with the deviants of an unknowable underworld. In the thick of this chaos is a photographer who has seen and immortalised it all. For over ten years, Peter Darren Moyle has been trawling the depths of Sydney's underbelly with his old 1936 medium-format camera, illuminating the darkest shadows of the city's psyche. This is a film about his unprecedented photographic odyssey through the urban wilderness and his recent struggle to emerge into the light via his first solo photographic exhibition.
In 2012, a fateful combination of weather conditions at Christmas time causes fires on Sydney's outskirts to slam straight into metropolitan Sydney. Without sufficient water to fight the blazes, fire crews are overwhelmed, and hundreds of lives are lost.
Famous big-wave surfers Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll pit their knowledge, the latest in storm forecasting and their bodies against unridden super waves in the depths of Bass Straight.
As we meet best friends and professional surfing legends Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones, middle age is upon them and their children are getting older – but they can’t stop exploring the globe for that elusive rush of adrenaline and thrill of danger, in search of the ultimate wave. Using state-of-the-art 3D technology, and narrated by Toni Collette, STORM SURFERS 3D is a visually stunning, inspiring and epic cinematic adventure that follows two men who refuse to put their youth behind them, setting out on a quest to hunt down and ride some of the most deadly waves in the Southern Ocean.
Filled with regret after her father died from Altzheimers, Renée Brack is determined to battle the fear & discrimination that exists around the disease by confronting it head-on.
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