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David Vadiveloo
There are only a few great tales of true resistance in our nations' history, tales that inspire us to believe that in the fight impossible odds can be beaten. This is such a story. Ynonne Margarula is the unsung hero at its heart.
Only 24 members…
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Charles Chauvel
Determined to tell a story that could be told only in Australia by Australians, Charles Chauvel made Jedda—the first Australian feature film to use Aboriginal actors in the lead roles and the first to be filmed in colour.
Set in the Northern…
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Ray Lawrence
Jindabyne is set in the south-east of New South Wales, a sparse but beautiful landscape. The story revolves around a group of fishermen who find the naked body of an Aboriginal girl.
Rather than raising the alarm immediately they tie the body to a…
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Trisha Morton-Thomas, Maggie Miles
David Gulpilil, a Yolŋu man, was one of Australia’s most outstanding First Nations actors.
Since his 1971 debut in Nicholas Roeg’s film ‘Walkabout’ he mesmerised audiences, appearing in over eighteen films. With a career spanning over 50 years,…
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James Trainor
Journey out of Darkness is set in Central Australia in 1901. It tells the story of a young white policeman Peterson, who is sent to arrest an Aboriginal man of the Arunta nation responsible for a ritual killing.
On the return journey, the…
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Gadrian Jarwijalmar Hoosan
Growing concern among young Aboriginal community leaders, particularly those in the Borroloola Men's Group, drew them to the idea of re-enacting a walk that hadn't occurred for almost thirty years. 'Livin' in town we've got too much fightin', too…
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James Bogle
Tracy Hocking is a schoolgirl at the country town of Kangaloola. In a nightmare she sees herself confronted in a cave by an Aboriginal dancer who gives her a painted crystal. When she awakens she finds the same crystal on her pillow. Her teacher,…
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Brendan Fletcher
Kalkadoon Man accompanies one of Australia's most respected musicians, William Barton, on a 10-day quest to make a didgeridoo using traditional methods passed down from his father, uncle and other tribal members of the Kalkadunga nation.
Throughout…
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Liza Johnson
In the Northern Territory of Australia, an extended Aboriginal family attempts to track down a missing family member so as not to loose their government housing
As they move back and forth between the suburban ghetto where they live and a remote…
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Ali Russell
Keeper is the story of two Aboriginal women living in the small town of Ceduna on the far-west coast of South Australia.
15-year-old Jacinta Haseldine is a high school student, as interested in hip-hop as she is in hunting wombats and kangaroos.…
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Tyson Mowarin
If the Kimberley was a country, at times it would have the highest suicide rates in the world.
The vast majority are young First Nations men.
Mark Coles Smith, a First Nations actor who grew up in the Kimberley, returns to try to discover why…
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Adrian Wills, Gillian Moody
Kindred looks at the importance of discovering your place in the world.
When Wodi Wodi woman Gillian Moody and Wonnarua man Adrian Russell Wills met making a short film together many years ago, little did they know that later they would become…
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Quenten Agius, Kim Mavromatis
King William IV recognised the continued rights to land for Aboriginal people in South Australia's founding document, the Letters Patent, in Feb 1836. The first ever Aboriginal rights granted in Australia's colonial history. Rights to the land, to…
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Warren Foster, Stuart Cohen
Kuringal re-enacts the 1883 gathering of First Nations people at the top of Doctor George Mountain, on NSW's Far South Coast, for a Kuringal ceremony also known as a men's initiation ceremony. The gathering brought more than 130 First Nations people…
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Shakthi Shakthidharan
Laka is a cross-cultural love story that starts with a first kiss in the suburbs of Sydney and ends with a bush birth in the Arnhem land wilderness.
For too many years, Lily, a Yolngu woman from the Northern Territory, has suppressed her yearning…
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Trevor Graham
Land Bilong Islanders follows Queensland's Supreme Court to Murray Island, the centre of a legal battle which forever altered relationships between black and white in Australia.
Murray Island, or Mer, lies to the north of the Australian mainland.…
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David MacDougall
Link-Up Diary explores the consequences of the New South Wales government’s long-term practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their parents and raising them in “white” environments. The film takes the form of a personal journey by the…
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Eddie Martin
In 1968, Aboriginal boxer Lionel Rose became the the first Indigenous world bantamweight boxing champion when after 15 rounds he defeated Fighting Harada in Tokyo. He returned home to a hero's welcome by a crowd of 250,000.
Lionel is a very lucid…
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Tony Thorne
Little J is five years old and his Big Cuz is nine. They’re two Aboriginal kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog.
All their friends are nearby, and school is just a stroll away along a bush track. There’s so much to discover in the backyard...and…
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Anthony Thorne
Little J, he’s five and Big Cuz, she’s nine. They’re a couple of Aboriginal Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog.
Little J and Big Cuz are busy with the ups and downs of playground and classroom. There’s always something surprising…
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Anthony Thorne
Little J, he’s five and Big Cuz, she’s nine. They’re a couple of Aboriginal Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog.
In season four, Little J and Big Cuz are busy with the ups and downs of playground and classroom.
There’s always…
