Key Case Studies

A selection of documentaries that have been funded partly or entirely by private funding. They offer a model of potential collaborations around shared issues and themes.

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In four corners of the world, in the four seasons, four brilliant violinists take us on one extraordinary journey through their very different homelands. A celebration of life, the relationship...
A FIGHTING CHANCE

Nermin Sabanovic is a strong willed man. At 42 years of age, his main goal in life is to win a world boxing title. Now that he holds the OPBF Title and the Australian Title, Bosnian-born Nermin...
A Hard Rain

Australia sits on 40% of the world's known uranium supplies and is about to give the green light to an enormous expansion of mining. The Australian government is now committed to taking the country...
A Well-Founded Fear

The Australian Government sends back asylum seekers it doesn't think are refugees. International law says people shouldn't be sent to unsafe locations. But the Australian Government never finds out...
Alone Across Australia

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On the 18th May 2001 Jon Muir and his dog, Seraphine, began an odyssey to cross Australia on foot, from Port Augusta in South Australia to Burketown on the North Coast of Queensland. 128 days and...
An Evergreen Island

In 1989 the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that was destroying their land. It remains closed to this day. In response, a blockade was imposed around...
An Inconvenient Truth

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Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a...
Battleground Minnesota

Minnesota hip-hop activist Shakademic takes a journey through the election campaign in his hotly contested 'battleground state'. He speaks to teenagers, members of the Citizens League, the Minnesota...
Blackman's Houses

This film is a re-examination of Tasmanian history. In particular it explored the reasons for the deep divide, at the time, between the contemporary Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities on...
Blindsight

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount...
Blue Vinyl

Blue Vinyl follows filmmaker Judith Helfland as she sets off on a quest uncovering the toxic ramifications of the use of blue vinyl siding on suburban houses, including her own childhood home. Her...
Bomb Harvest

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Laos: Australian bomb disposal specialist Laith Stevens has to train a new young “big bomb” team to deal with bombs left from the Secret War, but meanwhile, the local children are out hunting for...