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Chantelle Murray
Forgotten soul, Mary, an Aboriginal woman, is confined on a cattle station and used by the stockmen for their pleasure.Mary makes an unlikely friend in the new station hand, Victor, an Aboriginal man, whose father is white. As their interest in…
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Shifting Sands showcases six short films from Australian Aboriginal filmmakers, exploring issues of identity, culture and family, and continuing in the tradition of the first series, From Sand to Celluloid.
Tears (Director: Ivan Sen, 15min) follows…
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George Ogilvie
An Aboriginal man, Stuart Wilkins is arrested for taking part in a land rights demonstration, after the death of his father. His white wife Alison leaves him and takes their son Tommy.
Seven years later, Stuart returns to Sydney, determined to…
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David Batty
In 1907, Mother Antonio O'Brien and nine young Sisters of St John of God set sail from Perth on a journey to Broome on the remote Kimberley coast, in the far north west of Australia.
This epic story of Irish and Australian nuns is set against the…
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John J. McGowan
Documentary profiles of six contemporary Aboriginal people who may be seen as forming a bridge between traditional Aboriginal culture and European culture in Australia.
Six Australians reveals a great deal about the issues affecting all Aboriginal…
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Marlee Silva aka ‘Rocket’s Daughter’ – rugby league legend Rod ‘Rocket’ Silva – tells her untold and personal story of the NRL past and present.
In this intimate documentary, she reveals the truth about the nation’s most loved sport, through her…
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Songlines on Screen is a special collaboration between Screen Australia and NITV that presents 10 short films from the remote regions of Western, Northern and Central Australia. These films represent Aboriginal people's ongoing connection to land…
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Curtis Levy
Sons of Namatjira examines the relationship between a community of Aboriginal artists and the outside world.
Keith Namatjira is the son of the celebrated artist Albert Namatjira, and emulates his father’s distinctive style. He lives with his family…
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Kim McKenzie
Archaeologist Rhys Jones investigates unusual stone spear-points found in ancient sites in the Kakadu National Park, and which seem to have been traded south from Arnhem Land. Jones hears of two Elders in eastern Arnhem Land who remember how to make…
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Barbara Glowczewski-Barker, Wayne Barker
"Bayini is a great spiritual woman she started to talk, to dance, to sing. She made everything around, all that comes from history. The vision and the dream she was seeing is the Anchor".
Arnhem Land Aboriginal (Yolngu) narratives regarding the…
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Christopher McLeod
Indigenous communities around the world and in the U.S. resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment.
In this 4-part documentary series, native people…
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Eleanor Gilbert
When the ancient wisdoms of the universe held by the oldest culture on earth meet modern astrophysics a new concept is born – cultural astronomy.
Increasingly Aboriginal people in Australia are being recognised as the first astronomers.
In the…
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Molly Reynolds
A poetic celebration of country and culture, Still Our Country documents the swiftly changing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory. Originally conceived as an online installation, this evocative carnival of images and…
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Katrina Channells
When Michael Eather left Tasmania at twenty-one years of age and followed his sister to a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, he had no idea that his life would change very dramatically and forever.
As a young artist on the…
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Mark Anderson
Set in the township of Ngukurr, a remote Aboriginal town in south-east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Stone Country follows the stories of several residents – from the local DJ to respected community elders.
Through these stories, we come face to…
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Henri Safran
Storm Boy tells the story of a 10-year-old boy, called Mick by his father Tom, and Storm Boy by the Aboriginal loner Fingerbone he befriends. This boy is growing up in an isolated corrugated iron shed next to a wildlife sanctuary. He lives with his…
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Hayden Layton
Storykeepers is a celebration of an extraordinary individual, Boori Monty Pryor, who throughout his life has risen against the odds to become a celebrated author and storyteller.
Growing up as an Aboriginal kid, dodging the cops in Townsville,…
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David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
Sunny And The Dark Horse chronicles the story of an Aboriginal stockman and his family and their growing passion for "picnic racing" on bush tracks in New South Wales.
It was filmed at Collum Collum, an Aboriginal-operated cattle station in…
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David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
One of the major works produced by the film unit of the then Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (now Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, AIATSIS), Takeover observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal…
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Grant Leigh Saunders
Grant Leigh Saunders is an Aboriginal filmmaker, writer and musician who has secretly always wanted to be a fisherman, just like his father and grandfather before him. This fishing yarn is set against the backdrop of the beautiful Manning River in…
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Rolf de Heer
Ten Canoes is different in many ways. Forget Hollywood, action or predictable stories, even forget fast-paced entertainment. Ten Canoes is a quiet film, a film about how Aboriginal life has been 1,000 years ago and maybe even before that.
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