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Martin Mhando
"Liyarn Ngarn", in the Yawuru language of the West Kimberly region around Broome, means "Coming Together of the Spirit". Liyarn Ngarn represents a thirty year long mission of Indigenous leader and Yawura man, Patrick Dodson, to bring about a lasting…
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Laura Clelland, Gabriel Willie
With their ‘big break’ comedy show cancelled, an eviction notice on their door, and big responsibilities on their shoulders, flatmates and part-time baristas Steph and Gab realise there’s more money in foot fetish pics and phone sex than there is…
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Alec Morgan
When Lousy Little Sixpence was first screened it caused shock and disbelief in Australia because viewers couldn't believe what they were seeing.
Lousy Little Sixpence tells the story of five children, now Elders and representatives for an entire…
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Curtis Levy
Made at the request of the Aboriginal people of Mornington Island, Lurugu was the first of five films made by Curtis Levy for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (now Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies,…
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Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman
Four years in the making, this animated film documents the song-cycle of the Goolarabooloo people, along the path of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail which was established in 1987 by Goolarabooloo Elder Paddy Roe, and stretching from Broome up through…
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Trevor Graham
A man ahead of his time, Eddie Koiki Mabo, left an indelible legacy to the people of Australia, reshaping the landscape and opening up possibilities that many never dared dream of. The gentle spoken individual behind one of the most important…
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Brendan Fletcher
TJ is a mad bastard, a hard-edged, urban street warrior Aboriginal man who's sick of scraping out an existence in the city. His estranged 13-year-old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too.
After being turned away from his mother's…
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Kim McKenzie
Barunga, in the Northern Territory, hosts an annual festival of Aboriginal sport and culture. In 1988, 200 years after the British flag was raised in Sydney, the Festival took on a special meaning. Prime Minister Bob Hawke was invited to attend and…
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Richard Jasek
Filmed during the inaugural year of the Ramsay Art Prize, Making a Mark is a chronicle of creative trailblazing, as a selection of finalists, all aged under 40, vie for this important $100,000 prize.
In a story that spans the globe from Europe to…
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Curtis Levy
Gustav Malbangka and his family lived at Hermansburg Mission in central Australia. Like many other people, they wish to leave the social problems of the congested settlement behind them and return to their traditional land at Gilbert Springs.…
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John Honey
Australia, 1830. Edward Waterman (Phillip Hinton) and his family arrive in a remote part of Tasmania (known at the time as Van Diemen's Land). Waterman is pressured into helping British colonial forces carry out the Black Line – enforced removal of…
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Jessie Boylan
Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government performed highly secretive nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Field in South Australia and on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia.
Maralinga was subject to 12 major nuclear…
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Craig Japangardi Williams, Timothy Japangardi Marshall
Marluku Wirlinyi is a tale of kangaroo hunting that weaves its way through Dreamtime, to the present and back again.
A group of old Warlpiri men transport us back to a time of rarely heard history and we follow their journey into the present.…
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Tyson Mowarin
This 2.5-hour film shows Aboriginal artist Allery Sandy creating a mesmerising dot-work painting of the Pilbara, the region in north Western Australia she calls home. Marni translates to 'marking' in Yindjibarndi.Filmed over three weeks as she…
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Ann McGrath, Andrew Pike
Lake Mungo is an ancient Pleistocene lake-bed in south-western New South Wales, and is one of the world’s richest archaeological sites.
Message From Mungo focuses on the interface over the last 40 years between the scientists on one hand, and, on…
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Victoria Wharfe McIntyre
When Miro returns from WWII he finds his land taken, his daughter stolen, his people relocated (a fate many Aboriginal soldiers returning from service faced) and his service record treated with contempt.
But the New Guinea battlefield has taught…
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Imogen Thomas
Mixed Bag tells the story of a city woman who has ventured out west to be witness to the birth of her grandchild. On the last leg of her journey distraction sets in and she hits a kangaroo. She has to pull into the next township which happens to be…
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Nathan Maynard
Set on a remote Tasmanian island, a recently sober father tries to reconnect with his son through a traditional muttonbirding season, only to face cultural and personal crises that threaten their relationship and force them to confront their…
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Curtis Levy
Because of work commitments and the influence of Christian missions, traditional mourning ceremonies among the Tiwi people of Melville Island were becoming rare at the time of making this film (1974). The full, elaborate ceremony, called the…
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Stuart McDonald
Mr Electric is set in outback Queensland in 1956, in a time when people still used kerosene lamps for light.
Bill, an Aboriginal electrician employed to electrify the countryside, has no place, either in the white world in which he grew up, or in…
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Hart Cohen
T.G.H. (Theodor George Henry, or Ted) Strehlow was one of Australia's most eminent and controversial anthropologists. This fascinating documentary traces his life from his childhood at Hermannsburg (NT) as the son of Lutheran missionaries, to his…
