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.

Refugees

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 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...
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...
Hope

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Four hundred people were pitched into the sea when their people-smuggling boat from Indonesia sank in 2001. 353 drowned. Only 7 of the survivors made it to Australia. Amal Basry, who had fled Iraq,...
It's Like That

“It's like that” is a 7 minute animated documentary made by the Southern Ladies Animation Group (S.L.A.G). The animation is set to the voice recordings of three children who were interviewed...
Lost Boys of Sudan

Lost Boys of Sudan is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's...
Molly and Mobarak

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Molly and Mobarak is the story of Mobarak Tahiri, a young Hazara refugee, who is living in the town of Young, in rural NSW. Categorized as an illegal immigrant by the Australian government,...
My Country, My Country

Iraqis line up to cast their vote in the January 2005 elections. Inspired by a New Yorker article written by George Packer about the first months of the war with Iraq ("War After the War"), Laura...
My Khmer Heart

It is estimated that over half a million children were orphaned during the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the 1970s. Their parents were brutally executed, tortured or...
Refugees

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For Mike Siv, the trip begins innocently enough: "Me and my homies, David and Paul, we're going to Cambodia. We'll see the sights, visit family, have some fun." In REFUGEE, these three young men,...
The Isabellas - The Long March

On New Year's Eve 1991, Chen Xing Liang landed in a wooden fishing boat - code named ISABELLA on the far north coast of Australia. Aboard were 56 Chinese Nationals. They became the first refugees...
The Mascot

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The Mascot is the story of one man's struggle to discover his stolen identity. It traces the journey of Alex Kurzem, striving to reclaim his past in wartime Europe. Saved from the death pits by the...