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Pauline Whyman
Back Seat is a film inspired by Pauline Whyman's own life experiences. It tells the story of 12-year-old Janine, a young Aboriginal girl which her foster parents take for the first visit to her biological family.
Janine discovers that she has 8…
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Bill Bennett
Police officers Trevor Darling and Nikki Iceton have to escort a young Aboriginal woman to the NSW outback to stand trial. Kath is accused of murdering a publican who tried to rape her.
Trevor is a disgraced drug squad detective who was accused of…
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Phillip Noyce
Backroads tells the story of an aimless white drifter, Bill, who has a chance encounter with Aboriginal man Gary. They steal a car, petrol and supplies as they need them.
As they travel they pick up another Aboriginal man on the run from an…
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Harry Bardwell
This landmark documentary was broadcast on Channel 7 in 1981 and had immediate political impact. The film helped to trigger both a House of Lords enquiry in Britain and a Royal Commission in Australia chaired by Justice James McClelland.
Collated…
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Queenie Brennan
Barngngrnn Marrangu Story tells how in the early 1960's a mother and father escape from a reserve to travel back to their own Jawyon homeland with their children.
A woman remembers her childhood experience of a midnight escape with her parents from…
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Deborah Brown, Grant Brown, Ismail Khan, Justin Schneider
Barrumbi Kids tells the rollicking, coming-of-age story of Tomias and Dahlia - two best friends growing up in a magical and remote Northern Territory community.
The series celebrates the value of unstructured outdoor play, living with the…
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Various directors
In 1973 ABC-TV produced a television version of Basically Black, a revue of comedic, satirical, political sketches and the first formal theatre production of the National Black Theatre.
Basically Black was the first all-Aboriginal television show…
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Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Bastardy takes you on a journey to accompany Jack Charles, an Aboriginal man who's in and out of jail for burglary. The film starts quite heavy-handed when Jack injects drugs which he's doing since many years.
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Tracey Moffatt
Bedevil is the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. With this film, Moffatt challenges racial stereotypes in Australian society.
She presents a narrative that consists of three 'ghost stories' which belong to Aboriginal and…
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Ivan Sen
Lena has an absent Irish father she longs to see and an Aboriginal mother she finds disgusting. When she breaks away, she meets up with petty criminal Vaughn who's just escaped from low security prison to reluctantly visit his dying mother.
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Ivo Burum
The extraordinary story of the Pintupi peoples' first meeting with the white world.
In Benny and the Dreamers a small group of Pintupi living in west Central Australia today can remember their first meeting with a white man, their first impressions…
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Monica Garriga, Esther Lozano
Between the Lines follows Sydney-based Worimi man Adam Hill, an activist painter and musician defined by a mixed Indigenous and white heritage as he goes on an artistic and personal journey of identity through his artwork.
Confronting his…
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David Vadiveloo
As a young girl, Aggie Abbott hid and watched as her cousin Zita Wallace was stolen from their traditional Aboriginal community while Aggie herself was not. They were both 'half-caste' kids.
Aggie and Zita were separated for over fifty years. Zita…
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John Lind
The title Beyond The Dreamtime comes from a very successful book series by Ainslie Roberts and Charles P. Mountford. While Mountford wrote the texts (mainly Aboriginal myths) Roberts delivered "vibrant surrealist images" of "enchanting richness and…
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Paul Sinclair
Murrungga Island is at the top end of Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. This is where we find 95-year-old Baymarrwangga, or as she is affectionately known, “Big Boss”, who was honoured as “Senior Australian of the Year, 2012”
Big Boss…
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Michael Longbottom
Big Fella is the story about the crippling health effects of diabetes and obesity in Indigenous communities throughout Australia, and one man's love for life, his battle to stay alive, and his fight against the demons of obesity and diabetes.
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Steven McGregor
The charismatic and inspirational frontman of the Warumpi Band, George Rrurrambu Burarrawanga, hailed from Elcho Island, off the coast of Arnhem Land.
Popularly known for his energetic stage performances and charismatic character, his fans revered…
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Various directors
Bit of Black Business is a compilation of Aboriginal Australian short films which premiered on the Indigenous Film Festival 2007 in Sydney.
The shorts cover a broad range of topics. Some cover earnest, serious topics like relationships (Custard,…
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Ralph Smart
Wally King, with his family and stockmen, drive livestock over hundreds of kilometres of dry country to take up their new selection at Bitter Springs, in central Australia.
A government trooper warns them that they are moving onto a waterhole that…
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Craig Lahiff
In late 1958, in the remote town of Ceduna in South Australia, a nine year old white girl was brutally raped and bludgeoned to death in a beach cave.
Shortly thereafter, in the presence of six local police officers, a full confession was signed by…
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John Tristram, Ian James Wilson
Gordon Bennett was born in Monto, Queensland in 1955. In 1991 his compelling painting, The Nine Ricochets: fall down black fella, jump up white fella, won him the prestigious Moet and Chandon Art Fellowship.
Black Angels is about the opening up of…
