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.

Health & Wellbeing

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...
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...
Following The Fenceline

This is an important documentary about breast cancer and an innovative approach to public awareness taken by 14 remarkable women. In mid-1996 a group of 14 women rode motorbikes around Australia to...
Freedom Machines

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Freedom Machines demonstrates how assistive technology can change the lives of people with disabilities. The film demonstrates how people with disabilities, aged 7–93, are using assistive...
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...
Hospitals Don't Burn Down

Fire breaks out after midnight in a multi-storey hospital, cutting the top floors off from escape. It spreads quickly, due to poor housekeeping. Despite the prompt action of the Fire Department,...
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...
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...
Lets Get Real

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Let's Get Real explores the problem of bullying in middle schools in the US in a honest and thought-provoking way. The film allows both the bullied and the bullies to tell their own stories. The...
Losing Layla

LOSING LAYLA is a video diary documentary that bears witness to a loss that has often been unrecognized in our community- the loss of a baby. The impact of stillbirth or neonatal death is often seen...