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Paul Roberts
Black Magic is more than a film about sport. It is an account of the creative use of sport made by the Noongar people of Western Australia's south-west to advance their people's standing.
Noongar Aboriginal people, from as early as 1920, channelled…
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Stephen Thomas
More than a hundred years after the Tasmanian Aboriginal people were declared extinct, their descendants set out to reclaim the lost graves of their ancestors on Flinders Island in Bass Strait.
The neglected burial site at Wybalenna (or 'Black…
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Rachel Perkins
Black Panther Woman recounts Marlene Cummins’ journey when in 1971 she fell in love with the sharp-talking leader of the Australian Black Panther Party, Denis Walker.
The little known Brisbane chapter of the Black Panther Party was inspired by the…
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David Sandy, Bruno de Villenoisy, Lorraine Mafi-Williams, Martin Rooke
Black Santa follows Syd Cunningham, Head of the Aboriginal Welfare Unit, St Marys, NSW.
He dons his Santa uniform and distributes Christmas presents to the local Aboriginal children.
Black Santa is part of the Blackout series.
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Amie Batalibasi
Blackbird is a short narrative drama shedding light on a little known part of history – Australia’s sugar slaves.
Set in the late 1800s, it follows the story of Solomon Islander siblings, Kiko (16) and Rosa (24), who were kidnapped from their…
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Michael Riley
Blacktracker is based on Michael Riley’s grandfather Alexander 'Alec' Riley, a legendary tracker of Dubbo, NSW, who worked for the NSW Police Force from 1911 to 1950.
It examines the tracker's life who rose to the rank of sergeant and became one…
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Steven McGregor
A 3-part dramatised-documentary series giving a unique insight into the compelling history of the Torres Strait Islands, told through key stories by the men and women of the region.With additional stories woven together through artwork, animation…
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Cornel Ozies
In Bollywood Dreaming Cornel Ozies tells the story of 16-year-old Jedda Rae Hill, a young African-American-Aboriginal girl who doesn't like to conform to the norm: she skates, does boxing and loves watching and dancing to Bollywood movies.
Her…
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Adrian Wills
Palm Island is a tiny slice of far north Queensland that sums up the contradictions of the state – great physical beauty sullied by great prejudice. A place with a dark history and a less than stellar reputation
It is the perfect backdrop for a…
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Dylan McDonald
Like many young Aboriginal men, Jack Buckskin grew up not knowing his traditional language and culture, as it had been driven almost to extinction a hundred years ago. Living on the edge of Adelaide, a life-changing event set him on a new path.
The…
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Paul Roberts, Des Kootji Raymond
'The Legends' were a group of men who formed the Buffaloes Football Club and championed fair play on and off the sporting field.
Many of the men came out of Darwin's notorious Kahlin Compound where they had been placed because the law classified…
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Sylvia Nulpinditj
The Bulunu songline belongs to the Djambarrpuyŋu clan of the Yolŋu Nation of north east Arnhem Land. Bulunu is the south east cloud formations that bring the rains that replenish the land and provide the time of abundance in food from the land and…
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Andy Nehl
Where black Americans turned to the blues, Aboriginal Australians found inspiration in country and western music and created a style of their own. From the bush to the city, Aboriginal people have used country music to tell their stories of life and…
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Mitch (Michelle) Torres
Frank Byrne was forcibly removed from his mother Maudie at the age of 5 and has been searching and yearning for her almost all of his life. After 60 years, the old man Frank has finally found her amongst the patient case records of Perth's Claremont…
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Wayne Barker
Broome, Western Australia, 1982: Cass recalls the old days of the pearling industry when there would be 40 or more boats operating from Broome. Now there are only 5 or 6.
Cass is a staunchly self-reliant man, part-Aboriginal, part-Malay,…
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Trevor Graham
The Yolngu leaders asked for this DVD to be made. Through song, dance, art and ritual, the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land pass on and preserve their sacred knowledge. The Djungguwan is one of their most important ceremonies.
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Lynette Wallworth
Collisions focus is Aboriginal elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Europeans while he was observing one of the Maralinga atomic tests.
Set in the Western Desert, the film contains elements of tragedy, travel blog and nature story.
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Francis Jupurrurla Kelly, David Batty
More than 80 years after the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people in Central Australia, survivors and their descendants tell their story in Coniston.
Known as “the Coniston Massacres”, the punitive expeditions that set out in August…
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Tyson Mowarin
Australia is home to the world’s oldest continuous culture. A culture whose sacred sites are older than any of the worlds most famous monuments. Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China are comparatively recent compared to the rock art…
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Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
While the British and Australian governments were trying to test space rockets, members of the nomadic Indigenous population in the Great Sandy Desert, south of Broome (Western Australia) were still living off the land, surviving in extreme…
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Roger Scholes
This hour-long documentary gives an astonishing insight into the life of an East Perth dance club—the Coolbaroo Club—run by the Nyoongar Aboriginal community and for all Aboriginal people and their (few) white supporters between 1946 and 1960.
The…