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BRAN NUE DAE - the Making of the Musical

from Ronin Films PRO on April 3, 2016 1 video

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NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) This documentary by leading Australian documentary filmmaker, Tom Zubrycki, traces the development and production of the successful stage musical, Bran Nue Dae. The writer of the play, Jimmy Chi, talks about how his experiences and education led to his writing of the semi-autobiographical…

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BOUGAINVILLE SKY

from Ronin Films PRO on April 3, 2016 1 video

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A film by NICK AGAFONOFF On war-torn Bougainville Island, a young Australian songwriter found himself working for the world's first ever unarmed international peace keeping operation. This film tells the story of how he worked with music and humour to help the people of Bougainville find the…

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BLACK MAN'S HOUSES

from Ronin Films PRO on April 3, 2016 1 video

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Directed by STEVE THOMAS. Produced by JOHN MOORE and STEVE THOMAS. More than a hundred years after the Tasmanian Aborigines 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…

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BLACK MAGIC

from Ronin Films PRO on April 3, 2016 1 video

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A film by PAUL ROBERTS. Although about top Aboriginal sportsmen, 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. Denied access to other areas of…

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TALKING LANGUAGE with Ernie Dingo [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on March 8, 2016 1 video

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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…

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Lem: Secret Service Man

from John Jenkins PRO on March 23, 2016 1 video

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In 1962, a 38 year old Secret Service man named Thomas Lemuel Johns transferred from the Atlanta office to the Vice Presidential protective detail in Washington D.C. He and a small detail protected Lyndon Johnson and were with him a year later in Dallas, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.…

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YELLOW FELLA [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on March 8, 2016 1 video

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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…

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WIRRIYA: Small Boy [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on March 8, 2016 1 video

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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…

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WILLABERTA JACK [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on March 8, 2016 1 video

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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…

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WARREN WILLIAMS - The Stories, The Songs [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on March 8, 2016 1 video

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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…

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WALKING DANCING BELONGING [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on March 8, 2016 1 video

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Produced in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra in Western Australia, this moving documentary features three women who talk about their paintings as an expression of their relationship to their country. The women share a sense of belonging to their place and express this belonging…

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TNORALA - BABY FALLING [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on March 8, 2016 1 video

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Tnorala is the Aboriginal name for Gosse’s Bluff, a dramatic meteorite impact crater set in a vast plain 175km west of Alice Springs. This significant dreaming site for Western Arrernte people is steeped in mystery and tragedy. The story of its creation and the events that occurred there are narrated…

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