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.
Social Justice
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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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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...
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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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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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...