Below is a selection of suppliers in alphabetical order.
ABC Content Sales
The ABC screens lots of Aboriginal films and shorts in its Message Sticks program. Content Sales is responsible for the sales and marketing of television programming content both in Australia and worldwide.
Claims to be "Australia's Largest DVD/VHS Database" and also offers a out-of-print service to find older movies. Also available are press books, posters, postcards, photographs, lobby cards, autographs and original working scripts.
You can search for best prices of Aboriginal DVD titles in five stores and pick the cheapest one. DVD Plaza provides information and services for Australia's online DVD stores since 1999.
Note: EzyDVD went into receivership in December 2008. Though its website still accepts orders I'm not sure about their ability to deliver goods. Their online catalogue offers many Aboriginal movies though.
Flickerfest is a short film distributor who "hand-picks" quality Australian short films including "the latest collection of Australian indigenous short films". They are able to deliver many shorts presented on CreativeSpirits.info.
The National Film and Sound Archive is the national audiovisual archive, collecting, storing, preserving and making available screen and sound material relevant to Australia's culture. A good address if you want to show Indigenous movies to a broader audience (schools, universities, communities).
Ronin Films is an independent distributor of non-theatrical films. A list of educational videos is available on the site. They are a very good source for Aboriginal movies and they have a large collection.
Warlpiri Media Association is a non-profit community organisation managed by a locally elected indigenous management committee. They have a proud history of independently produced local television. Local Indigenous video operators collect news stories and local events for editing and broadcast to the local community. Warlpiri has also produces a wide variety of programming for national broadcast, including the ground breaking Bush Mechanics.
Over the last few years Indigenous films have become more and more popular. Watch out for film festivals which either show Aboriginal films along with other films or purely Aboriginal film festivals such as the annual Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival.
National Indigenous Television
The digital Indigenous TV station NITV (National Indigenous TeleVision) broadcasts in the Sydney region on channel 40. Among other material it broadcasts Indigenous documentaries which are usually repeated over a number of days at different times so you get a chance to watch them.
The National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA) runs the Black Screen Program where it provides Indigenous communities and the broader Australian public with access to Indigenous films. You can borrow a compilation of films by Aboriginal filmmakers free of charge. Each DVD compile has a range of Indigenous films, short dramas, comedies and documentaries.
Contact www.nfsa.gov.au to find out how to access DVD compiles.
Beam-A-Film
BeamAFilm is an Australian documentary VOD (video on demand) site that also streams a curated list of films about Aboriginal Australia. You can rent them for 2 days for a small fee or for free if you're a member of selected libraries.
Screen Australia
If you don't know the exact name of the film, Screen Australia (formerly Australian Film Commission) offers an advanced search of their database.
Australian Screen Online
Australian Screen Online (ASO) offers public access to a vast collection of excerpts of Australian feature films, TV drama, documentaries, news reels, home movies and other historical material.
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