FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/dead-birds-re-encountered-p859.aspx by Robert Gardner color, 46 min, 2013 In 1961, Robert Gardner organized an expedition to the Highlands of New Guinea to film the Dani people. He stayed for six months to…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/dont-fence-me-in-p877.aspx by Ruth Gumnit color, 30 min, 2004 Since 1962, Burma has been ruled by a military junta. Life has deteriorated markedly for its citizens. Despite its former prosperity and its rich…
A car in on fire on the parking next to a building marked by the UN flag. Several other cars are seriously damaged. Injured people are being carried to a Black Hawk helicopter of the Red Cross, a young women having great difficulties to walk is helped by an American soldier to embark as well. Other American…
WINNER! 2015 AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Documentary) for Dylan McDonald for his work on TALKING LANGUAGE, in the 44th National ACS Awards for Cinematography! Around 250 Indigenous languages with 600 dialects are spoken in Australia. Today it is estimated that 30 of those languages are still strong…
Inspired by John Vaillant’s award-winning book 'The Golden Spruce', 'Hadwin’s Judgement' is a spellbinding and visually stunning account of environmentalism, obsession and myth set in Canada's Pacific Northwest. The film chronicles the tormented transformation…
Power is a necessity in today's modern world. Most of us take for granted the work that it takes to build and maintain the power grid that supplies us with the electricity that powers our lives. Storm Soldiers is a film about the men who make it all happen. The linemen who work tirelessly behind…
The entire 57 minute documentary on the life and music of Florence B. Price. The first African-American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra. Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas to extraordinary parents, Florence B. Price became the first African-American woman to have…
THEORY OF OBSCURITY tells the story of The Residents: a renegade sound and video collective from San Francisco. Their history, spanning more than 40 years, continues to be shrouded in mystery. Many details surrounding the group are secret, including the identities of its members. They always perform…
YELLOW FELLA is a portrait of the late Balang Tom E. Lewis who as a young man in 1978 was chosen by director Fred Schepisi to star in THE CHANT OF JIMMY BLACKSMITH. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own – a restless young man of mixed heritage, struggling between…
This moving documentary is a record of a few hours in the life of a small 7 year old boy, Ricco, from Hidden Valley, one of the many town camps on the outskirts of Alice Springs. He has lived in the camp for most of his life, and is looked after by his three older sisters and his foster mother, Nanna…
NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) WILLABERTA JACK is the outstanding short film that inspired filmmaker David Tranter to expand the story into a screenplay for the award-winning feature film SWEET COUNTRY (2017). This is a true story of the Northern Territory in the 1920s when it was Australia’s last…
This portrait of singer-songwriter, Warren H. Williams, expresses his close ties with his Arrernte culture, the source of his inspiration. Born in Hermannsburg to a musical family, Warren engaged with music from an early age, absorbing both traditional culture and the music of the white man’s church. Warren…
