Issues / ThemesHere you will find information, organised by issues or themes, about areas of interest where existing documentary work targets specific groups and audiences. Documentary Australia shows the broad range of work already being made by documentary filmmakers in Australia and how it intersects with the interests of many grantmakers and charities. Search Results Remembering RainIn the face of the worst drought on record, rural Australians have gambled their dreams on the chanc...  The Broad Street History ProjectThe Broad Street History Project is a collection of documentaries made by middle and high school stu...  knot at homeNarratives, songs, stories, vignettes of memory ; images from young people and their families from a...  Omar and PeteOmar and Pete are determined to change their lives. Both have been in and out of prison for more tha...  The Real Dirt on Farmer John"The Real Dirt on Farmer John" is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and ...  The Good The Bad and The Ugg BootA spaghetti western following a heroic bunch of small family businesses, as they take on a giant US ...  Downside UpDownside Up is about how MASS MoCA, America’s largest museum of contemporary art, has transformed Ma...  The OasisTough kids from tough backgrounds living dangerous lives – these are the young people of Oasis, a gr...  Lets Get RealLet’s Get Real explores the problem of bullying in middle schools in the US in a honest and thought-...  A FIGHTING CHANCENermin Sabanovic is a strong willed man. At 42 years of age, his main goal in life is to win a world...  900 NeighboursIn February 2006 Australia’s media was rocked by headlines, SKELETON MAN FOUND IN HOUSING COMMISSION...  Crossing The LineWhen two young, non-indigenous medical students go to work in a remote Aboriginal community, their p...  HurtDomestic violence in Australia is a horrifyingly widespread, but almost entirely hidden, phenomenon....  No Place To LiveThis film looks into the housing issues facing urban Chicago now and in the future and at the histor...  An Inconvenient TruthHumanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right...  Blue VinylBlue Vinyl follows filmmaker Judith Helfland as she sets off on a quest uncovering the toxic ramific...  HatredHATRED is a wide ranging documentary that travels from Berlin to Harlem to the Middle East and Austr...  Waging a LivingIf you work hard, you get ahead. That's the American Dream in a nutshell — no matter what your race,...  Techno TribalIn Vis à vis: TECHNO TRIBAL, two highly-committed individuals from different parts of the world take...  FarmingvilleFarmingville is an 87 minute documentary by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini about the complex ...  A Hard RainAustralia sits on 40% of the world’s known uranium supplies and is about to give the green light to ...  Painting With Light In A Dark WorldFor over a decade, street photographer Peter Darren Moyle has been trawling the depths of Sydney’s u...  Least Said, Soonest MendedThrough telling the story of my own family and that of my twin sister in particular, this film explo...  An Evergreen IslandIn 1989 the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that w...  Plumpton High BabiesPlumpton High, in Sydney’s outer western suburbs, is one of the few schools in Australia with a prog...  River Of DreamsRIVER OF DREAMS explores the radically divergent approaches to ‘country’ between Indigenous and non-...  HurtHURT is a docu-drama like no other. 250 young Australians from rural areas and small towns have been...  Outsourced!Outsourcing is the new frontier of globalisation, pitting call-centre workers around the world again...  No Limits (series)No Limits is a community television show that looks at living life to the fullest with a disability....  Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product CertificationBUYER BE FAIR: THE PROMISE OF PRODUCT CERTIFICATION takes viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the UK...  Divorce StoriesAround 200,000 Australians marry every year. Over 43 per cent of these marriages will fail. This thr...  LegacyThis documentary follows one family, living in one of the oldest and most dangerous public housing p...  The New HeroesThe New Heroes, hosted by Robert Redford, is a four-hour PBS series that tells the stories of ‘socia... |
> THE DOCUMENTARY AUSTRALIA FOUNDATIONFind guidelines and application forms to make or receive a grant, plus a list of documentaries on our Approved List for philanthropic support. > KEY CASE STUDIESA 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. > PHILANTHROPY AUSTRALIAThe national body for Australian philanthropic trusts and foundations offers a comprehensive directory with links, networking opportunities, services and information to promote philanthropy. |
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