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Perun Bonser
Shadows of Displacement uses puppets to tell a concise history of the displacement of Aboriginal people in the North-West of Australia.
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Aaron Fa'aoso
Another film which is based on a true story. Sharpeye tells how 11-year-old Whalen spots a dinghy of the Special Forces which is part of an exercise. They plan a surprise attack on a community but are outdone by the whole community springing into…
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Erica Glynn
She Who Must Be Loved is a documentary that tells the epic life story of Alfreda Glynn, directed by her daughter Erica Glynn.
Born under the Aboriginal Protection policies, in the early 1970s she channelled her formidable energy into establishing…
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Chantelle Murray
Forgotten soul, Mary, an Aboriginal woman, is confined on a cattle station and used by the stockmen for their pleasure.Mary makes an unlikely friend in the new station hand, Victor, an Aboriginal man, whose father is white. As their interest in…
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Shifting Sands showcases six short films from Australian Aboriginal filmmakers, exploring issues of identity, culture and family, and continuing in the tradition of the first series, From Sand to Celluloid.
Tears (Director: Ivan Sen, 15min) follows…
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Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen interviewed four then teenagers in small towns in north western NSW over a period of ten years - in 1995, 2000 and 2005. This feature documentary follows Willy, Cindy, Danielle and Ben through a vital period in their lives, the transition…
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Ivan Sen
Shifting Shelter is a groundbreaking 15-year documentary study of the lives of four young Aboriginal people in rural north-west New South Wales.
For 15 years Ivan Sen has documenting the lives of four young people in north west NSW. Cindy Peterson,…
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Viviana Petyarre
Shiny One is a comedy that centres on a young fella named Wenye, who leaves his remote community to pursue a dream vision calling him to the big smoke to find his pot of gold.
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George Ogilvie
An Aboriginal man, Stuart Wilkins is arrested for taking part in a land rights demonstration, after the death of his father. His white wife Alison leaves him and takes their son Tommy.
Seven years later, Stuart returns to Sydney, determined to…
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Rima Tamou
Sing About This Country follows country music star Troy Cassar-Daley and the Black Image Band (brothers Cliff Harrigan, Pando Harrigan, Dylan Harrigan and Porky Harrigan) as they tour and perform in communities throughout Queensland’s Cape York…
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Janet Isaac
The documentary Sister, If You Only Knew opens with welfare officers ransacking an Aboriginal home while a female voice explains "they just came and took them away from us".
Sister, If You Only Knew takes as its theme the pressures of life…
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David Batty
In 1907, Mother Antonio O'Brien and nine young Sisters of St John of God set sail from Perth on a journey to Broome on the remote Kimberley coast, in the far north west of Australia.
This epic story of Irish and Australian nuns is set against the…
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John J. McGowan
Documentary profiles of six contemporary Aboriginal people who may be seen as forming a bridge between traditional Aboriginal culture and European culture in Australia.
Six Australians reveals a great deal about the issues affecting all Aboriginal…
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Songlines on Screen is a special collaboration between Screen Australia and NITV that presents 10 short films from the remote regions of Western, Northern and Central Australia. These films represent Aboriginal people's ongoing connection to land…
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Curtis Levy
Sons of Namatjira examines the relationship between a community of Aboriginal artists and the outside world.
Keith Namatjira is the son of the celebrated artist Albert Namatjira, and emulates his father’s distinctive style. He lives with his family…
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Stephen Page
Called a " hybrid feature film", Spear tells a contemporary Aboriginal story through movement and dance.
It follows a young Aboriginal man, Djali, as he journeys through his community to understand what it means to be a man with ancient traditions…
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Kim McKenzie
Archaeologist Rhys Jones investigates unusual stone spear-points found in ancient sites in the Kakadu National Park, and which seem to have been traded south from Arnhem Land. Jones hears of two Elders in eastern Arnhem Land who remember how to make…
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Dylan Coleman
Talented young Aboriginal boxer, Jimmy is in the wrong place at the wrong time, falsely accused by police of a crime he didn’t commit.
When he tries to explain his innocence and refuses arrest, he is thrown to the ground and tasered.
After the…
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Barbara Glowczewski-Barker, Wayne Barker
"Bayini is a great spiritual woman she started to talk, to dance, to sing. She made everything around, all that comes from history. The vision and the dream she was seeing is the Anchor".
Arnhem Land Aboriginal (Yolngu) narratives regarding the…
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Allan Collins ACS
Spirit Stones is both a contemporary and historically stylised, one-hour documentary of Nyoongar elders giving their account of mysterious stones that fell on Aboriginal (Noongar) camps in rural Western Australia.
In the 1940s and 1950s, stone…
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Christopher McLeod
Indigenous communities around the world and in the U.S. resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment.
In this 4-part documentary series, native people…