Short | Anita Heiss

Checkerboard Love is a short film about an mixed-race couple whose parents will meet for the first time; and it's more stressful than usual. Should they keep their Aboriginal decoration or replace it with "traditional white" icons? Will this…

Drama | Michelle Blanchard

Custard tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman who visits her grandmother after the death of the grandfather. She is looking for answers to her many questions. Although a sad film it is not without humour when the granddaughter reads out a…

Drama | Adrian Wills

We see a car pulling into a service station. Two young men get out, but the camera rests on the car. Then a commotion, shots are fired. A young man storms out, falls, scrambles back to his feet and runs away. It's Daniel's 21st birthday and…

Comedy | Debbie Carmody

In a pub in Kalgoorlie, the mining capital of Western Australia, Lenny, an unsuspecting tourist walks into a conversation between Amos, a gold digger, and two miners. He purchases a nugget from the digger for what he thinks is a bargain price. What…

Drama | Martin Leroy Adams

With Days Like These Martin Leroy puts the viewer into the shoes of Dan, a young Aboriginal man trying to find work. As we follow him through the day we get a feeling of what it means to be black and to cope with disappointments and social…

Short | Kyas Sherriff

Feel My Absence is an examination of how people interact unconsciously each day and how the strangers who inhabit our lives affect us. People you have never met create and affect the patterns of your day and it is not until they are gone do you…

Documentary | Ivan Sen

Fire Talker is a documentary biopic about Australian Aboriginal political activist, footballer and administrator, Dr Charles Perkins (aka Charlie Perkins). Charles Perkins is an Australian Indigenous rights activist of the 2nd half of the 20th…

Documentary | John Harding

The Fitzroy Stars was one of the first all-Indigenous football clubs in the early 70's and folding in the early 90's. After 14 years, ex-player Troy Austin is on a mission to resurrect the Fitzroy Stars football club, and as we follow his journey…

Documentary | Sally Riley

Six year old Robbie lives with his white grandmother and his Koorie father (when he is around). Sick and tired of his father and grandmother arguing over his identity, Robbie walks outside to climb his favourite tree only to find that his friend,…

Documentary | Rachel Perkins, Ned R Lander

Freedom Ride is part of a four-episode documentary by Rachel Perkins and Ned Lander. It tells a chapter of Charles Perkins' life, the father of Rachel. He grew up in Alice Springs in the late 1930s at a time when segregation was the rule. During…

Compilation | Dena Curtis

Ethel and her friend Mary are pensioners who meet regularly to play cards. But do they really play cards? Hush takes you into Mary's house and lets you observe what really happens. The revelation starts slowly when it is revealed that one of the…

Documentary | Kelrick Martin

In the late 1960's, many Torres Strait Islander men made the long journey to the Pilbara in Western Australia to build railways between remote mines in the desert and ports like Port Hedland on the coast. Over the years these Islanders created a…