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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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Jub Clerc, Kimberley Benjamin
Caught between set life and home life, Charlie Flogim is thrust back to her remote hometown of Broome where she’s forced to deal with a chaotic film shoot and face the one person she vowed never to see again.
Will her narcissistic boss convince…
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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…
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Catriona McKenzie, Jacqueline Willinge
The path to becoming a prime minister in Australia is a difficult one, forged through a series of educational, political, and social sliding doors – many much easier to open than others.
But what are the odds of an Aboriginal Australian realising…
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) is a piece of improvisational realism. A group of four Aboriginal young men are holed up in a chemically compromised mangrove swamp having been falsely accused of stealing two cartons of beer, while at the edge of…
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Chad O’Brien
A young Aboriginal girl must dig deep to own her performance of a Shakespearean sonnet for her high school drama class in this powerful Australian short film.
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Des Kootji Raymond
The family of a Gurindji woman work to have her remains returned to her traditional country after she was buried in Larrakia country.
Speedy McGinness negotiated with the authorities, as well as his family, to have the remains of his mother…
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Ned R Lander
Based on the real life experiences of two Aboriginal bands on the road, "Us Mob" and "No Fixed Address", gigging between Port Adelaide and Point Pearce, SA, Wrong Side of the Road is an uncompromising documentation of Rock’n’Roll, life on tour and…
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Angela Bettina Canalese
Wundung (Wiradjuri for wind) explores the idea that Ancient Aboriginal Knowledge, with its deep connection and understanding of Earth as the mother and provider of life, can lead the world into light.The poetry of Michelle Herthington weaves the…
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Stephen Johnson
Caught in a collision between the brave new world of rap, football, street cred and the oldest living culture on earth, Lorrpu, Botj and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers who once shared a childhood dream of becoming great hunters…
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Natasha Fijn
Yolngu Homeland explores how a community in Arnhem Land, Australia, is connected with other beings - ancestors, animals and plants.
Aboriginal people have lived in Arnhem Land for over 45,000 years. Over time they have developed a deep, spiritual…
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Nicholas Cleary
A young Aboriginal man heads north in search of a girl, but discovers much more than he ever expected.
Yudum tells the story of a young man who heads north in search of a girl, but discovers his place in the Oondnadatta community.
