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Steven McGregor
What is it like being Aboriginal with white skin?
Why should fair skinned Aboriginal people have to justify their Aboriginality?
Apekathe follows the story of two Aboriginal women and their families and how they identify with their Aboriginal…
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Larissa Behrendt
Araatika! Rise Up follows Dean Widders’ personal journey to share his culture with the world.
In 2012, a group of First Nations NRL players, including Dean Widders, Preston Campbell, Timana Tahu and George Rose, with help from dancer and…
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Sarah Spillane
Around the Block is about breaking family and cultural cycles for a hopeful future.
A contemporary story of love, revenge, and triumph, a young Aboriginal boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his…
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Warwick Thornton
In Art + Soul, a major three-part ABC TV series, curator Hettie Perkins takes us on a journey through the art forms and movements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
From ancient rock paintings to Western Desert art and…
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Alec Morgan
In 1951 the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) began using movie cameras in secret surveillance of people who were suspected of being threats to the state.
Some of their prime suspects were then 21-year-old Aboriginal man Ray…
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Ivan Sen
Born in the Kimberley with a debilitating bone disease, Connie's first baby steps, broke both her legs. She was rejected by her father and had to spend most of her childhood on a mission. The mission staff didn't tell the Aboriginal children where…
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Leah Purcell
Aunty Maggie struggles to feed her three boys. One day, short of cash, she swaps a box of tobacco for a rooster and some chooks.
Hardly settled in the pressure is on for the chooks to lay eggs. "We want eggs," chant the boys and each day Aunty…
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Regina Pagano
Aussie Bush Tales is series of stories about three Aboriginal boys and their cousin, Jedda, who live traditionally with the elder, Moort and his wife, Marlee. Through their adventures, they learn about bush lore and about finding food.
Meeka is the…
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Baz Lurmann
Australia tells the story of an English aristocrat lady who in northern Australia at the beginning of the second world war, travels to Australia to sell the inherited huge cattle station 'Faraway Downs'. She also wants to check up on her husband who…
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Unknown
Aboriginal youth are four times more likely to commit suicide than non-Aboriginal Australians. Experts and aboriginal elders believe a variety of reasons drive Aboriginal youth to suicide, including a disconnection from traditional culture and…
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Paul Goldman
Prospect Bay is a poor fishing village in South Australia, where Gary 'Blacky' Black is an unremarkable 16 year old in a battling family of four siblings.
He is also part of the local Australian Rules football team - albeit not its star player. His…
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Unknown
Away From Country captures the essence of Aboriginal excellence on and off the sporting field and highlights the journeys of Aboriginal sportspeople.
It captures the pursuit of dreams and looks at how the athletes cope with being away from…
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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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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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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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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.
Blonde…
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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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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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