Joyce Ingram is an Indigenous elder living in the notorious Redfern neighbourhood called “The Block”. She has fought battles and has won some historically significant ones. She lived on The Block when it was the first urban land rights victory for Indigenous Australians in the 1970s. Today,…
In London 1909, an actress from Adelaide made worldwide headlines after taking to the skies under a 25-metre balloon emblazoned with the slogan, 'Votes For Women'. Known as 'that daring Australian girl', Muriel Matters was inspired by playwrights, anarchists and revolutionaries to…
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 Pukumani ceremony, lasted several days and involved large numbers…
A film by Brendan Walsh. For many people, the mention of Papua New Guinea will evoke images such as remote highlands cultures and tribal warriors; or perhaps tropical islands and palm fringed beaches, or it may bring to mind darker images of poverty, corruption and raskol violence. But in PNG's…
A film by Tom Zubrycki. MOLLY & MOBARAK takes you behind the headlines and hot debates to Young in rural NSW where ordinary Australians share their community with 90 Afghan refugees working at the local abattoir. Against a backdrop of occasional ignorance and hostility, these everyday Australians…
In an antique shop in Adelaide, South Australia, filmmaker Gerard Reed happened upon a wallet belonging to a German soldier from World War One. The soldier was identified as Heinrich Bornkamp, and his wallet contained a number of personal items including poignant letters from his family and his fiancée. Fascinated…
Family Foibles is a series of five half-hour documentaries that examine contemporary Australian families. Each story revolves around a family confronting a problem. These range from the relatively benign issue of omission in the telling of a family history to domestic violence and the threat of family…
A 6-part series of films about the history and culture of Vermont, the state that brought us the first constitution to outlaw slavery, Ethan Allen, civil unions, Bernie Sanders and a whole host of other ground breaking mavericks and ideas. Created by a collaborative of award-winning Vermont filmmakers.…
"In her fascinating, briskly paced video documentary, Pietra Brettkelly tracks the pageant with a sharp eye toward its implications." LA Weekly Before Saddam and Osama, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi was one of the most reviled leaders in the world. Libya still ranks in the Axis of Evil roster.…
A documentary arising out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's Byker Revisited portraits from the different communities that now live on the Byker Wall Estate. Throughout the 1970s Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen documented the terraced streets of Byker, which were demolished to make way for Ralph Erskine's…
A chronicle of Finnish-born photographer and Amber founding member Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's return to her roots in Finland with her daughter Katja, after 23 years in Britain. It is a deeply personal and evocatively universal documentary: 'Perhaps the freedom I wanted most, was the freedom…
A gripping action documentary about what happens when young, war-weary troops, including a 9/11 first responder, take on a new mission -- healing their own wounds. They do it by pedaling their bicycles hundreds of miles through the tail end of a hurricane, encountering flooding, mountains, accidents,…
