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.

Welfare

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...
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...
Hurt

HURT is a docu-drama like no other. 250 young Australians from rural areas and small towns have been given the opportunity to tell their own stories with their images in their words. Challenging,...
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...
Least Said, Soonest Mended

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Through telling the story of my own family and that of my twin sister in particular, this film explored coercive policies towards 'unmarried mothers' in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, which were aimed at...
No Limits (series)

No Limits is a community television show that looks at living life to the fullest with a disability. It has been on air on C31 in Melbourne since June 2003 and is now also broadcast in Perth,...
No Place To Live

This film looks into the housing issues facing urban Chicago now and in the future and at the historical reasons behind the current affordable housing crunch in metropolitan Chicago. It looks at the...
Nobody's Children

A documentary insight into the growing youth underclass in Australia - with a major focus on homeless children.
Omar and Pete

Omar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more than 30 years - never out longer than six months. This intimate and penetrating film follows these two...
Painting With Light In A Dark World

For over a decade, street photographer Peter Darren Moyle has been trawling the depths of Sydney's underbelly with his old 1936 medium-format Rolleicord camera, illuminating the darkest shadows of...
Plumpton High Babies

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Plumpton High, in Sydney's outer western suburbs, is one of the few schools in Australia with a program that supports schoolgirl mothers completing their education. This four-part series follows a...
The Oasis

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Tough kids from tough backgrounds living dangerous lives – these are the young people of Oasis, a grimy brick youth refuge in inner-city Sydney. No story is too horrific, no circumstance too...