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. Her Nana Sue, born and raised on a mission, has always…
Originally released in 1989, this disturbing documentary looks at a little known aspect of Australian wartime history. Scientists, laboratory staff and military volunteers recount experiences with the Australian Chemical Warfare Unit, which, with the active involvement of both British and American resources…
This powerful documentary was made by Oomera (Coral) Edwards on Super 8mm film as a training exercise at the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. The film surveys the New South Wales policy of taking Aboriginal children from their families and putting them in institutions…
When Eliza Fraser was shipwrecked off the coast of Queensland in 1836, eventually landing on the coast of what was to become known as Fraser Island, there were up to 3000 Aboriginal people living there. By 1905 only 20 or 30 remained. Gillian Coote's essay film employs a diary-come-road movie form,…
A film by ANDREW SCARANO. Co-produced by ANDREW PIKE. Into the Shadows journeys beyond the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Away from the bright lights, the red carpets and paparazzi, an awful truth is discovered. The cinema…
PLEASE NOTE: This version of THE INTERVENTION: STORIES FROM THE INSIDE is complete and unabridged, and includes 20 minutes more footage than seen on TV. On 21 June 2007, the Howard Federal Government introduced the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation commonly known as ‘The Intervention’…
Directed by STEVE McGREGOR. Produced by CARMEL YOUNG and TONY COLLINS. IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN follows the fortunes of the first all-Aboriginal Australian Rules football team to enter a mainstream AFL-affiliated competition, through their first bone-jarring season. After 30 years of running their…
Corbell presents his research as an investigative filmmaker into the subjects of nanotechnology, alleged alien implant removal surgery, exotic propulsion systems, Area 51, Bob Lazar, Skinwalker Ranch and the militaries elusive UFO problem. This is a unique opportunity to see a TWO HOUR long presentation…
In Jen Senko’s award winning documentary, THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD, she, looks at the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her father who changed from an open minded, nonpolitical Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic after his discovery of Talk Radio on a lengthened commute to work.…
"LO SOUND DESERT" is the first and most in-depth documentary about the Californian desert music scene. The "Full Fun Pack" contains the extended two chapter version of the film. - What was started by revolting punk rock kids, hidden from narrow-minded authorities of the sub-urban…
”Kindred Spirits” is the adventurous film on how a multinational team of film workers completed the shooting of the feature documentary "No Word for Worry" in the inaccessible waters of the Mergui archipelago off Myanmar (Burma) and southwest Thailand. Director/cinematographer Runar…
In the 1930s, the photographer ZHUANG Xueben leaves Shanghai to explore the Blank Lands of China, absent from geographic maps and filled with an air of mystery. In particular, the Blank Lands were the remote regions of the western borders, which in the collective imagination were inhabited by “barbarian…
