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Here 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.

 

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Techno Tribal

Techno Tribal

In Vis à vis: TECHNO TRIBAL, two highly-committed individuals from different parts of the world take...

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Crossing The Line

Crossing The Line

When two young, non-indigenous medical students go to work in a remote Aboriginal community, their p...

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Kanyini

Kanyini

KANYINI is a story told by an Aboriginal man, Bob Randall, who lives beside the greatest monolith in...

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Cannibal Tours

Cannibal Tours

When tourists journey to the furthermost reaches of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, is it the i...

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Us Mob

Us Mob

Us Mob is a 7-part 'choose your own adventure' series set in the central desert of Australia.
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An Evergreen Island

An Evergreen Island

In 1989 the landowners of Central Bougainville closed one of the world's largest copper mines that w...

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Blackman's Houses

Blackman's Houses

This film is a re-examination of Tasmanian history. In particular it explored the reasons for the de...

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Dhakiyarr vs the King

Dhakiyarr vs the King

The family of the great Yolngu leader Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda is searching for answers. Seventy years af...

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Mabo - Life Of An Island Man

Mabo - Life Of An Island Man

On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie "Koiki" Mabo's tragic death, the High Court upheld his clai...

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River Of Dreams

River Of Dreams

RIVER OF DREAMS explores the radically divergent approaches to ‘country’ between Indigenous and non-...

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Birth Rites

Birth Rites

Birth Rites draws powerful comparisons between birth in outback Australia and the icy regions of Can...

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> 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.
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> PHILANTHROPY AUSTRALIA

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www.philanthropy.org.au