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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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Beck Cole
Making Samson & Delilah shows the fascinating story behind the making of one of the most acclaimed Australian films.
A director, a producer, two teenage actors, a small crew and six weeks in the desert. Throw in an observational documentary…
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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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Tracey Rigney
Recently released prisoner, Carp, is initiating his childhood friend with a home made tattoo. His beer soaked stories grow darker as he tells his friend what it means to be a man.
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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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Steven McGregor
Marn Grook explores the history, achievements and struggles of Aboriginal sportsmen involved in our National game, 'Aussie Rules'.
Through perseverance, natural ability and a love for the game, Aboriginal players have been able to overcome the many…
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Kimberley West
Marrimarrigun is the story of two young men hunting in Marrar country, and who get ripped from the land by the notoriously ferocious and fast tides.Stranded on an island, the boys are saved and protected by Marrimarri, the giant spirit man and his…
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Pauline Clague
Meeting Ms Right is a whirlwind day-in-the-life expose of author Dr Anita Heiss. She's fabulous, she's glamorous and she knows how to match her wit and intellect with her designer shoes.
When she's not too busy putting together groundbreaking…
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Fran Dobbie
‘Don’t cry, be a man!’
A mother’s concern for her son and his abuse of alcohol takes her on a journey of her own self-discovery. She reflects on the past and her concerns for young people and their determination to experience life to its fullest.…
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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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Wayne Barker
In Milli Milli Aboriginal director Wayne Barker takes the viewer on a cultural travelogue through the three regions of the Kimberley (West Australia): the coast, the rivers and tablelands, and the desert.
Storytellers talk of past and present…
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Wanta Jampijinpa
Initiated Warlpiri man, Steve Jampijinpa Patrick has been the creative director for the last seven years of the powerful Milpirri event, performed by the Warlpiri people of Lajamanu, a community on the edge of the Tanami Desert in the Northern…
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Warwick Thornton
At an auction of Aboriginal artefacts a white woman buys the painting of a fish and a Mimi sculpture. Mimis are stick-like spirits which live in rock cracks.
Shortly after bringing them home she discovers that the painting of the fish has changed…
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Erica Glynn
Minymaku Way celebrates the 20th anniversary of the formation of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council.
In 1980 the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council was formed as a response to the women…
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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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Daniel King
Mirror Images looks at domestic violence and alcoholism in an Aboriginal family.
The film is a short drama that captures the story from the angle of the abuser then within this situation explores the emotion and reasoning behind why he abuses his…
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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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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…