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.

Human Rights

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...
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...
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...
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...
Born into Brothels

Amidst the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another side of the nation that is little known. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross...
Child Soldiers

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A telling global exposé of children who have become soldiers, who have been through the trauma of child soldiering, or who are presently active in fighting. Through a series of intimate portraits,...
Dying To Leave

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"Dying to Leave" explores the current worldwide boom in illicit migration and human trafficking. Every year, an estimated two to four million people are shipped in containers, shepherded through...
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...
Fog Of War

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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary It is the story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara. One of the most controversial...
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...
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...