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.

Youth

Battleground Minnesota

Minnesota hip-hop activist Shakademic takes a journey through the election campaign in his hotly contested 'battleground state'. He speaks to teenagers, members of the Citizens League, the Minnesota...
Blindsight

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount...
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,...
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,...
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...
Lets Get Real

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Let's Get Real explores the problem of bullying in middle schools in the US in a honest and thought-provoking way. The film allows both the bullied and the bullies to tell their own stories. The...
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 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...
Nobody's Children

A documentary insight into the growing youth underclass in Australia - with a major focus on homeless children.
Our Brother James

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James Dalmann killed himself in 1996. He was 20. In this very personal film, director Jessica Douglas-Henry returns to Geraldton in Western Australia with her sister Alix to document the impact of...