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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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...
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...
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...
Crossing The Line

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When two young, non-indigenous medical students go to work in a remote Aboriginal community, their professional precepts and personal ideas are deeply challenged. We're often told by...
Farmingville

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Farmingville is an 87 minute documentary by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini about the complex issue of illegal Mexican workers in a New York suburb. The film was inspired by the hate-based...
Hatred

HATRED is a wide ranging documentary that travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Australia to investigate the connection between hatred on a personal level and hatred within and between...
Hurt

HURT is a docu-drama like no other. 250 young Australians from rural areas and small towns have been given the opportunity to tell their own stories with their images in their words. Challenging,...
Hurt

Domestic violence in Australia is a horrifyingly widespread, but almost entirely hidden, phenomenon. One in four women will be victims of abuse in their homes. HURT lifts the curtain on the hidden...
Least Said, Soonest Mended

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Through telling the story of my own family and that of my twin sister in particular, this film explored coercive policies towards 'unmarried mothers' in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, which were aimed at...
Legacy

This documentary follows one family, living in one of the oldest and most dangerous public housing projects in America – Chicago's Henry Horner Homes - over a five year period. They are a family...