A film by Kay Donovan. TAGGED is the story of four young people growing up in Sydney's western suburbs at a time when the public spotlight is on the notorious suburb of Bankstown. While the media runs hot with stories of youth crime and stereotypes of gangs, drugs and drive-bys, these teenagers…
At midnight on Sunday May 31, 1942, three Japanese midget submarines broke through Sydney Harbour's defences and launched a surprise attack on an ill-prepared city. During that night of confusion and violence, 21 Australian and 6 Japanese service personnel lost their lives. Sydney At War recounts…
NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) The story of an Aboriginal stockman and his family and their growing passion for “picnic racing” on bush tracks in New South Wales. SUNNY AND THE DARK HORSE was filmed at Collum Collum, an Aboriginal-operated cattle station in north-eastern New South Wales.…
Directed by Chris Bamford. Produced by Michael Tear. The problems that confront the remote communities on the Tiwi Islands of the Torres Strait are similar to those that confront young people everywhere – but isolation and a lack of things to do make the young people of these communities particularly…
A film photographed and directed by Andrew Pike. Late in 2013 the Music Engagement Program (MEP), of the School of Music at the Australian National University, initiated a practical instrumental project in music and skill-sharing called the MEP String Project. The project was made possible by a fellowship…
An intimate look at the extraordinary life of Master Lu Yi, hailed as the father of modern acrobatics, and the vast community of big-top lovers who share his dream of a thriving US circus industry.
More than a traditional war film, In the Face of Evil plays out on an epic scale... from the back-lots of Hollywood, to the jungles of Central America; from the mountains of Afghanistan, to the palaces of the Kremlin; to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of a divided Berlin... In the Face of Evil…
In German and Arabic with subtitles in German, English and French. The life of the 70 year old Paola Beate von Pückler, semiotition, and goat herder is the main line of this documentary. Aside from the villages, she lives in a Moor Tower inmidst the Andalusian desert, surrounded by her goats,…
Directed by Darlene Johnson. Produced by Tom Zubrycki. Between 1910 and 1970 in Australia, 1 in 3 children were removed from Aboriginal families and placed in institutions and foster homes. These children, in most cases, were never to see their family again. The film tells 3 stories of Aboriginal…
A film by David and Judith MacDougall. Constructed as a series of vignettes of station life, the film focuses particularly on the relationship between Sunny Bancroft, the station manager, and a 16-year-old trainee, Shane Gordon. The episodes are linked by Sunny’s reflections on learning the…
Rob Fraser always knew his life would be condensed. That's what comes with having cystic fibrosis. Rob calculates his age in dog years. He looks like a healthy bloke but now at 33, Rob's really an old man of 99. Rob can see the end of his life clearly and he’s deciding to place himself…
From Chris Noonan, director of BABE, one of the most honoured and distinguished documentaries in Australian film history. DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED! This superior 4K digital version, restored from original film negatives by Ray Argall, was supervised by Chris Noonan. In November 1979, forty extraordinary…
