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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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Drama |
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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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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Don Featherstone
The film Babakiueria shows how Aboriginal peoples are represented in society through taking a sarcastic look at racial stereotypes.
It starts with a boat approaching a barbeque area and a group of Aboriginal people taking possession of this area…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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David Batty
The short documentary web series, Black As, follows a group of energetic young Aboriginal men through Arnhem Land providing access and insight into Aboriginal culture and community in a remote part of Australia. Their idea was to show the outside…
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David Batty
Episode guideEpisode 1: Survival: Stranded on a deserted island! Will they find a way home?
The boys have now been stuck on the island for weeks. Hungry, thirsty, unshaved, grumpy and fighting. Going by the phase of the moon they are worried they…
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David Batty
Black As Rebooted follows Series 1 and Series 2.
The Black As boys are back! They need to get to a large town a few hundred kilometres away to enter a fishing competition. The stakes are high: $3,000 for the biggest barramundi, $2,000 for the…
