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Lena is a fair-skinned teenage girl with a dark-skinned mother in an isolated town. She rejects the Indigenous family which surrounds her and longs for the love of her Irish father. Vaughn, a dark-skinned teenage boy lives in an isolated prison camp. He is angry at the white world that surrounds him and lashes out when provoked. Incarceration has made him old before his time and has separated him from the love of his family. These two hardened young souls escape from their worlds and hitchhike together towards Sydney in a struggle for purpose, identity and love.
A gritty cinematic story of sibling rivalry and control. You can pick your mates but you can't pick your family.
A senior Aboriginal man reflects on communication the old way. But times have changed and this old man now has a new way!
A detective is investigating but discovers some puzzling and contradictory things - six short vignettes about the female of the species. Titles include Trouble in Paradise, Measuring Up, Peas in a Pod, Playing Hard to Get, French Heels and Detective Sequences.
In mid-1996 a group of women - 14 in all - rode motorbikes all the way around Australia to promote breast cancer awareness. It was pretty amazing! A group of mainly middle-aged women on bikes arriving in country towns made quite a sight. Many riders from a number of motor cycle clubs raised money, had barbecues, rode legs of the journey or escorted the 'Fence Liners' in and out of towns and cities. This made the ride look even more spectacular. This video tells the story of the ride, of the women who rode, the people they met, the fun, exhaustion, trials and tribulations, the talkfests, mastectomies, lumpectomies, reconstructions... This video is a fabulous record of the ride and it's information about breast cancer - a road movie with a difference.
A half-hour documentary which follows four very different teenagers over the course of a regular Saturday night. Set in and around Manchester, the film interweaves each of their stories to create an evocative tableau of life in a northern English city.
A western Sydney security guard and part-time Ghosthunter has spent two decades searching for his absent father. As a survivor of a violent childhood, he seeks to reconcile his fractured memories and reclaim his past. When his search converges with a police investigation, a horrific family secret is exposed — forcing him to face a dark legacy and its many victims.
Michael White might just be the most famous person you've never heard of. A notorious London theatre and film impresario, playboy, gambler, bon vivant and friend of the rich and famous, he is now in his eighties and still enjoys partying like there's no tomorrow. In this intimate documentary, filmmaker Gracie Otto introduces us to this larger-than-life phenomenon. Featuring interviews with many of his closest friends, including Anna Wintour, Kate Moss, John Waters, Barry Humphries and, of course, the man himself, the film is a vibrant tribute to a fascinating entertainer.
...a short tale about the fragility of everyday existence...
Ngangkari Way is so important to Anangu. It is a stark contrast to the Western world's approach to medicine and the Ngangkari Way certainly shines through. This film will highlight that from the beginning, through Aboriginal law and culture, Ngangkari Way is determined and sustained.
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.
She Who Must Be Loved is a documentary that tells the epic life story of Alfreda Glynn - 78 year old Aboriginal woman, stills photographer, co founder of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), and Imparja TV, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, radical, pacifist, grumpy old woman, who in equal measure loves the limelight and total privacy.
In the early 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram, in seeking to understand the Holocaust, ran a series of controversial experiments on obedience. An authority orders you to inflict painful shocks on another person. Most us will obey, claimed Milgram. But will we? And were Milgram's experiments as much art as science? In dramatising previously un-filmed versions of the world's most famous psychology experiment, Shock Room turns a light on the dark side of human behavior and forces us to ask ourselves: what would I do?
The 20th century sinks leaving two survivors, ill equiped, ill prepared and adrift.
When the 50 year old Jeremy Oxley tentatively walked out on stage he was enveloped by a tsunami of rapturous applause. Jeremy's ability just to have survived 30 years of living with schizophrenia is remarkable in itself. The courage and the strength he mustered to return to the stage made the performance heroic. Told largely from Jeremy's own perspective, THE SUNNYBOY offers an intimate and enlightening exploration of a much misunderstood and stigmatised condition. THE SUNNYBOY is a story of hope, a celebration of survival and the healing power of unconditional love.
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.
On a remote Caribbean island, in the shadow of a volcano, the world's biggest recording artists made music and myth that defined an era.
Australia, 1867. In the cold, bleak high country, Jess, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant follow the trail of a killer, a traditional Indigenous man. With every step closer, the killer delves into the mind and soul of Jess, until ultimately being faced with the choice between his ancestral heritage and the only life he has ever known.
WIRRIYA: SMALL BOY is a documentary about a young Aboriginal boy and his world within an Alice Springs town camp.
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