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Hayden Layton
Storykeepers is a celebration of an extraordinary individual, Boori Monty Pryor, who throughout his life has risen against the odds to become a celebrated author and storyteller.
Growing up as an Aboriginal kid, dodging the cops in Townsville,…
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David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
Sunny And The Dark Horse chronicles the story of an Aboriginal stockman and his family and their growing passion for "picnic racing" on bush tracks in New South Wales.
It was filmed at Collum Collum, an Aboriginal-operated cattle station in…
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Allan Collins ACS
As the sun sets over Lila Creek, south of Alice Springs, Max Stuart watches the young men of his family prepare their camp and cook kangaroo the traditional way.
Throughout the night, Max passes on words of wisdom to his companions: sometimes they…
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David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
One of the major works produced by the film unit of the then Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (now Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, AIATSIS), Takeover observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal…
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Charmaine Ingram
Tayamangajirri (Night Patrol) follows the lives of a team of women from the Tiwi Islands who work day and night making sure that the Island’s kids and families are safe.
Tayamangajirri is Tiwi for "we look after each other".
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Anne Pratten
Terra Nullius begins in the 1960s, offering glimpses into the life of a young Aboriginal girl, Alice. She has been adopted into a white family. Her Aboriginality and her history are denied and hidden. We begin to see how much of this same history…
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Daniel Gordon
From shy country kid to two-time Brownlow medallist and Australian of the Year, AFL legend Adam Goodes is an inspiration to many. The footy field was where he thrived; the only place where the colour of his skin was irrelevant.
But Goodes’ world…
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Rachel Perkins
A documentary series that tells the extraordinary story of Australia's First Wars - and calls for the First Peoples who died in these conflicts to be acknowledged by the nation and officially recognised by the Australian War Memorial in…
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Rolf de Heer, Molly Reynolds, Tania Nehme
The Balanda and the Bark Canoes is a lively and eye-opening documentary and a companion film to Ten Canoes.
Rolf de Heer wrote during the production of Ten Canoes: "We are making a movie. The story is their story, those that live on this land, in…
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Warwick Thornton
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton’s incredible international success has come at a personal cost. He has reached a crossroad. Change or die.
Warwick has chosen to change. And in typical Warwick style, he has chosen to give up the limelight, the drugs and…
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Allan Clarke
Allan Clarke’s The Bowraville Murders is a feature documentary which investigates one of Australia’s worst unsolved serial murder cases.
In 1990-91 three kids disappeared from an Aboriginal Mission on the same street in Bowraville, a tiny country…
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Allan Clarke
A thought provoking, revelatory and inspiring documentary telling the story of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu – the publishing phenomenon that challenged Australia to rethink its history and ignited a raging debate.
The 2014 best-selling book makes…
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Lawrence Johnston
With remarkable frankness and emotional intensity, one of Australia's most distinctive documentary filmmakers, Lawrence Johnston, takes us inside the conflicted mixed-race marriage of his parents and its effect on family members.
The Dream of Love…
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Margaret McHugh
The Drover's Boy is a ‘hybrid’ blend of music, documentary and drama.
The story is set in the 1920s in outback Australia, and evokes a time when it was illegal for white Australians and Aboriginal people to marry. It was not uncommon for a drover…
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Malcolm McDonald
Thoroughly researched and expertly realised The Extraordinary Tale of William Buckley tells the remarkable true story of the escaped convict who spent 32 years living with an Aboriginal tribe in south-eastern Australia before it was exposed to white…
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Larissa Behrendt
The Fight Together documents how a group of NRL greats comes together to invent a new pre-game ceremony in response to the Maori Haka, that could celebrate Aboriginal cultures and help to counter racism in rugby league. Their goal is to use the…
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Ian Darling
Adam Goodes was a champion AFL footballer and Aboriginal leader.In the final three years of his playing career he became a lightning rod for a heated public debate and widespread media commentary that divided the nation.
He publicly called out a…
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Larissa Behrendt
The First Inventors explores the development of sophisticated art, stone tools, irrigation and agriculture in Australia between 70,000 and 120,000 years ago.
Tens of thousands of years before Mesopotamia and the ancient Greeks, Australia's First…
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Glen Stasiuk
The Forgotten examines the prejudice faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait soldiers in the armed forces and the honour they felt representing their nation. It is also a work that explains what prompted Indigenous people to risk their lives fighting…
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Frank Rijavec
The Habits of New Norcia tells the story of the Benedictine Aboriginal Mission at New Norcia, in Western Australia. Now a popular tourist destination north of Perth, the Mission holds harsh memories for the former Aboriginal "inmates" who were…
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Judith MacDougall
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children moved out of their house. In earlier times their bark house would have been burnt, but today a “house-opening” ceremony has evolved, creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait and…