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.
Environment
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Half Life
This compelling and beautifully crafted film reveals the effects of United States nuclear testing on the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, tiny atolls in the mid-Pacific. The film combines...
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Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story
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In the year 2000, the Hungarian river Tisza is flooded with tons of cyanide from an Australian-Romanian gold mine. The poisonous chemical causes an environmental disaster, killing over 1200 tons of...
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Muddy Waters: Life and Death on the Great Barrier Reef
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By 2010, forty per cent of the world's coral reefs may be dead. By 2030, half of the Great Barrier Reef may be gone. Parts of it are already dying, but the reasons have not always been clear. Global...
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Return To Eden
Follows the progress of the most ambitious counter-attack on ferals ever mounted in Australia and the return of native animals, on the brink of extinction, to the remote wilds of the Peron...
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Telling The Truth
In November 2006, former US vice president Al Gore traveled to Australia with an explicit purpose, to train ordinary everyday Australians to present the slide show known to many as the backbone of...
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The Burning Season
Dorjee Sun, a 32 year old Australian, travels the globe in pursuit of a carbon trading deal that could protect millions of hectares of pristine rainforest, save the orangutan from extinction - and...
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The Real Dirt on Farmer John
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"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and eccentric/innovative thinker cast in rural Illinois. Filmmaker Taggart Siegel has documented...