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In remote NSW a young city doctor gets bamboozled by the gentle cunning and stunning art of six local Aboriginal women.
An inner city apartment block, a seasoned hypochondriac, belligerent neighbours and vanishing underpants... The secret lies above the dust level.
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.
The business of being black today takes many forms: outrageous, courageous, mysterious, simple, straightforward and complex. The good, the bad and the ugly. But what makes our bit of business unique? The 13 short films in this series are directed by Indigenous filmmakers from around Australia.
A new sketch comedy show from some of the funniest blackfellas in Australia. (Well, they better be.) Following in the footsteps of the 1973 pilot Basically Black, this is the first sketch comedy series written entirely by blackfellas and commissioned by the ABC.
A sketch comedy show by blackfellas. For everyone.
Acerbic, witty, and altogether unapologetic, Black Comedy carves up sacred cows, dismantles stereotypes, and turns modern Australian culture inside out.
The fourth series of BLACK COMEDY will continue an acerbic, witty and altogether unapologetic comedic exploration of what it means to be black in contemporary Australia. The sketch comedy show is written and performed by some of the sharpest and funniest blackfellas in the country who carve up sacred cows, dismantle stereotypes, and turn modern Australian culture inside out.
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.
A father and his adopted troubled teenage son take a trip to the son's birthplace of Bourke, where they try to find the right words to say to each other before it's too late.
Frank and Vinnie are modern-day headhunters. They don't just want any heads, they want famous people, heads with a price on them and heads that will stop the nation dead.
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.
Caméra d’Or-winning director Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah) assembles a collection of poignant, sad, funny and absurd true ghost tales from across Australia and brings them to life with some of Australia’s most iconic actors as the storytellers. Honest, matter-of-fact first-hand accounts illuminate a black perspective on the other side.
Trying to find a job, Dan has to overcome social stereotypes. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
DESIRE is a short comic drama made in the Film Noir tradition. The film follows a lonely, pathetic laboratory worker, Dylan, who becomes obsessed with a parcel left behind by a strange woman on a commuter train, with deadly consequences.
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.
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?
Karen is a beautiful woman with a dark past. Upon her release from prison she realises the hardest person to forgive is herself.
Steeped in the rituals of their decaying family home, a middle-aged brother and sister cling to a past that is at once comforting and burdensome. In HOUSE TAKEN OVER every detail of sight and sound presses uneasily on the subconscious.
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.
Jinaali is a sweet, overweight Aboriginal checkout chick at the local supermarket. Her boss, Mr Chuck, is constantly on her back until Jinaali finds a voice of her own. Have you got your Jackie Jackie doll yet? Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
Who would have thought a glass of water could cause so much havoc? Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
A warm and affectionate behind-the-scenes look at the making of Warwick Thornton's hit feature film 'Samson and Delilah'.
THE MAN IN THE IRONY MASK is a stylised documentary about the life and death of artist and AIDS activist Brenton Heath-Kerr.
Nana's granddaughter thinks Nana's pretty special. She loves her Nana because she helps the old people, she's a good painter and other people love her too. Nana's got everyone under control. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
Depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.
Sam has recently moved to an isolated mining camp with her man. While he is at work on the minefields Sam realises that she is not alone.
Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hannah and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He’s the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency, he’s engaged to a Czech supermodel and Sydney is his oyster. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one spectacular night he drinks so much he thinks he can fly. A brutally honest comedy about work, family and excess, RUBEN GUTHRIE taps a deep vein and asks – is it unAustralian to refuse a drink? A funny and moving act of revelation about spiralling high, crashing hard and being taken to AA by your mum.
SAMSON & DELILAH's world is small - an isolated community in the desert. When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.
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.
Two friends, three funerals and a community learning to care for its own. Jen and Lynette met as three-year-olds and made a bond for life. Lynette became an internationally renowned artist whose works have often centred around themes of loss, death and resilience. Jen has worked with similar intensity in community projects that mainly revolve around the basic issues of survival. With her artist's eye Lynette follows Jen as she endeavours to start a community-based, not-for-profit funeral company in the Wollongong area.
Ben's plea for forgiveness leads to a shocking discovery. Part of the A Bit of Black Business series.
For Charlie, juggling his best mate and a hot date is hard work.
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.
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