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.

Indigenous

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  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...

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  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...

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  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...

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  Kanyini

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  KANYINI is a story told by an Aboriginal man, Bob Randall, who lives beside the greatest monolith in the world, Uluru in Central Australia. Based on Bob's own personal journey and the wisdom he...

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  Mabo - Life Of An Island Man

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  On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie "Koiki" Mabo's tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction that...

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  River Of Dreams

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  RIVER OF DREAMS explores the radically divergent approaches to 'country' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, conservationists and developers in the 'remote' Kimberley region of Australia's...