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Tyson Mowarin
An uncle inflicts an impromptu visit to country on his wayward nephews, imposing two cultural traditions, one highly literary and the other deeply personal, to get them thinking about a new way to go.
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Pamelaq Donnellan
Unfinished Business is a short film that chronicles the consequences of giving away an Aboriginal child, and how it impacts on the grown child, his white mother and Aboriginal father. It spears at the heart of similar issues tied up with the Stolen…
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David Vadiveloo
Us Mob was Australia's first Indigenous children's television series and the world's first Indigenous children's interactive web and film series stretching over seven episodes.
Us Mob transports young people from around the globe to the little…
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John Pilger
Utopia is intent on lifting the veil on Australia’s racist treatment of its Aboriginal population, calling the conditions faced by Aboriginal people the country’s “dirtiest little secret”.
Utopia is a vast region east of the Stuart Highway. But the…
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Margot Nash
Following her mother’s death, a young woman returns to the old family home, a ramshackle, dilapidated cottage in a coastal town. The visit brings personal memories that still disturb her, and also brings her into contact with a neighbouring…
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Karla Hart, Sam Bodhi Field
Virtual Whadjuk uses the power of virtual reality technology to immerse you into the time of Yagan; an Aboriginal Noongar warrior who lived between 1795 and 1833 and resisted colonial settlement in the area surrounding what is now the city of…
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David Vadiveloo
Since it was established in 1904, the Cape York community of Aurukun has been torn apart by riots and the community school has poorest academic record of any school in Queensland. It is one of the toughest Aboriginal communities in Australia to work…
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Nick Waterman
It’s May 27, 1967 – Australia’s referendum on Aboriginal rights. Two women unite as a family come to terms with the prospect of change.
Vote Yes is a story that follows a family as they prepare to head to the polls. The power plays between black…
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David Bradbury
Waging Peace the latest documentary by multi-award winning Australian film maker, David Bradbury, is a window into the passions and politics of the modern Australian peace movement.
Shot during the action-packed 2014 Canberra Peace Convergence at…
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Kim McKenzie
Djunawunya, Arnhem Land, east of the town of Maningrida, July 1978. Frank Gurrmanamana is responsible for preparing the final mortuary ceremonies for his brother who had died six years before. The brother had been buried in Maningrida, but now his…
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Nicolas Roeg
The contrast between modern, urban civilisation and life in the natural world lies at the heart of Nicolas Roeg's visually dazzling drama Walkabout.
In broad outline, the plot might resemble a standard fish-out-of-water tale: two city children…
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Bill Leimbach
This documentary is about David Gulpilil, an acclaimed Australian Aboriginal (Yolngu) actor, dancer and musician.
The film shows how Gulpilil is always working to bridge the gap between Aboriginal and Western worlds. He divides his time between a…
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Malcolm Douglas
Malcolm Douglas was one of the first to create outback adventure films in Australia. He had a deep connection with the Aboriginal people and has been documenting their traditional life since the early 1960s.
Following a 4-year journey through the…
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William Copland
This puppet series, made by animator Robert Knapp, features the adventures of an Aboriginal boy called Wambigee.
In the episode 'The Boomerang Maker’, Wambidgee makes a special boomerang for the chief of his clan. When Wambidgee travels to the…
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Jason De Santolo
Scott McDinny, a young Garrwa song man, is devastated when Borroloola town camps are bombarded with water contamination notices. No one seems to be taking responsibility in the Northern Territory and with continued mining up river his family’s way…
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Ben Strunin
Westwind: Djalu's Legacy is an enlightening and powerful film which profiles internationally revered musician, craftsman and spiritual leader Djalu Gurriwiwi.
Yolngu warrior, shaman and father Djalu Gurruwiwi, with some help from global pop star…
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli
As a group of Aboriginal adults argue about whether to save their government housing or their sacred landscape, their children struggle to decide how the ancestral Dreaming makes sense in their contemporary lives. Listening to music on their ipods,…
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Werner Herzog
In a slightly padded but well-acted and relevant drama, an Australian mining company and a group of Traditional Custodians go to court to settle a dispute over sacred land that the company wants to mine.
When the Ayers Mining Company sets out to…
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Karen Nobes
White Noise questions the absence of First Nations peoples' presence in commercial television drama and asks our top directors, producers, writers, casting agents and commentators: Why are our commercial Australian soap operas so white? Is the…
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Caroline Sherwood, Nicholas Adler
Malcolm Charles Smith was taken from his family as an 11-year-old boy, like many other Aboriginal children, and lived a life of institutionalisation and emotional and educational deprivation. He ended up in prison where he took his own life in…
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Rick Cavaggion
Why me? is touted as one of the "most compelling" films on the subject of the Stolen Generations.
The film tells the stories of five stolen children who as adults are trying to get on with their lives. Powerful re-enactments of key moments from the…
