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- A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.
- Tells the story of twins, separated at birth, who meet and swap places in an adventure that changes their lives. The first children's TV drama produced by the Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) explores different cultures: white and black, city and bush, community and urban lifestyles.
- An Australian Aboriginal DJ realizes that his job at the country radio station is about more than just playing music
- In 1978, Tom Lewis appeared in the Australian feature film, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own, a young, restless man of mixed heritage, struggling for a foothold on the edge of two cultures. Tom's mother is a traditional Indigenous woman of southern Arnhem Land, his father a Welsh stockman who he never really knew. Yellow Fella is a journey across the land and into Tom's past, as he attempts to find the resting place of his father and to finally confront the truth of his most inner feelings of love and identity.
- Two girls go head to head for the role of a lifetime.
- In the Aboriginal community of Mt Liebig, about 300km west of Alice Springs, a group of young women talk about the importance of bush food in their culture and its relationship to good health. In contrast, they associate sickness with "takeaway shop food" and describe Alice Springs as a "takeaway town: takeaway food, takeaway grog and takeaway sickness". The women visit the nearby Irantji waterhole with a group of children to teach them how to find and prepare bush foods - bush bananas, bush berries, witchetty grubs, wild honey, and kangaroo. The foods are not only more healthy but are also integrally linked to their own culture and quality of life. Through their personal experiences, the women of Mt Liebig provide insight into the gentle ebb and flow of their community life and the effect that outside influences have on their existence.
- Jessie Bartlett a shy 18 year old girl, learns the lores of love from her mischievous Pintubi grandmothers, Mijili, Nancy and Kumanjayi. A film about relationships and culture set in the desert.
- Who We Are: Brave New Clan is a one hour television special following the lives of six exceptional young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, showing how they engage with their communities, history and cultures, in modern Australia. Their unique journeys span Indigenous cultures across the country from the bustling streets of Sydney to the aquamarine vistas of the Torres Strait.
- Max is a Senior Arrernte Traditional Owner for the Alice Springs area. As the sun sets over Lila Creek, Max passes on words of wisdom to his descendents, sometimes sharp criticisms of his own people, sometimes warm nostalgic reflections.
- 54 years after being stolen from her traditional Aboriginal family under Australian Government policy, Zita Wallace is coming home. Guided by her childhood friend Aggie, a traditional woman who was hidden from authorities when Zita was taken, the two women embark on an intimate and confronting journey into the heart of reconciliation.
- Fresh out of the academy, White Cop experiences his first taste of Aboriginal community life, as Black Cop puts him to the test.
- Driving through the outback, a Japanese tourist accidentally hits two iconic Australian animals.
- This poignant documentary presents an ordinary day in the life of Ricco Japaljarri Martin, an 8-year-old boy who lives with his foster mom in a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs. Cole's observational approach allows Ricco to narrate his own story, offering a rare glimpse into his perspective that captures his charm, boisterous spirit and fierce intelligence.
- Ernie Dingo traces the importance of languages to Indigenous culture in Australia. There are around 250 Aboriginal languages with 600 dialects spoken in Australia. But it's thought only thirty of those languages are spoken each day, while over one hundred are critically endangered.
- This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.
- A cinematic journey into the stories and landscape of the Daly River Region. The viewer is given a vision of the power and beauty the Monsoons bring to the country. The people are one with country and are also aware of the dangers that lurk. Wungung, a young boy out hunting with his grandparents does not listen to their advice, his fate is sealed when he disturbs a little grey spirit. Part of the Nganampa Anwernekehne Series
- In the Heart of Australia, one of the harshest places on the planet, the town of Alice Springs has become a haven for lesbians, confronting the challenges of loving across racial and cultural gaps.
- Evelyn Hall, who died in late 2009, was a senior elder in women's law in the Miriwoong region and a staunch advocate for Indigenous land rights for her community. This documentary traces her last return to land.
- 'Big Girls Don't Cry' is about the strength and resilience of three people and their families coping with end-stage renal failure. Mariah Swan (from Moree) gets a kidney transplant at 18 months of age and now we visit her when she is 10 years old. Glenda Kerinuaia (from Bathurst Island) chooses to self-administer Peritoneal Dialysis so that she can participate in the cultural and family life of Tiwi Island. Essie Coffey OAM (from Brewarrina) speaks poignantly of the hardship associated with Haemodialysis. Essie tells us of her cultural dilemma in receiving a kidney transplant. Eventually with her weakened immune system, the common cold claimed her life. Renal physicians tell us what it means for Indigenous Australians living with debilitating renal disease in remote and rural communities.
- Join eight irresistible Alyawarr ladies; Katie; Jeannie; Mary; Lena; Rosie; Patsy; Pansy; and Mavis, as they take us on a journey through their country. The amount of effort, energy and skills needed to hunt, gather and prepare their bush tucker is a revelation as they hunt Echidna and gather Bush Potato. Dena Curtis filmed the ladies in this documentary, who come from Alyawarr Country in Sandover River region in the Northern Territory. The centre of Alyawarr country is 250 km North West of Alice Springs and contains the communities of Utopia, Arlparra and Ampilatwatja. Experience a window into their lives.
- One phenomenon that is hard to predict and even harder to prepare for is an unrelenting wall of red dirt, swirling like a tornado tipped on its side. It creates a tempest of blinding choking darkness, it is the Australian dust storm. A CAAMA Productions/National Geographic Co-Pro.
- In these fast and modern times, the Numurindi people are still guided by the seasons and stories of the Dreamtime. This observational documentary focuses on Moses Numamurdirdi and his family's fight to hold onto their culture and ways in an ever-changing world.
- Produced in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra in Western Australia, this moving documentary features three women who talk about their paintings as an expression of their relationship to their country. The women share a sense of belonging to their place and express this belonging through dance and song and all of their artistic expressions. On a trip into the bush around Cockatoo Lagoon near Kununurra, they explain the stories of their Dreaming and of their land, and talk of their own experiences growing up as workers on stations in the area. Each artist talks about why they paint - to teach and to share stories about their country with others in the community and wider afield. The film also observes them working on paintings, each giving her personal interpretation of a loved environment and a living culture. The paintings are all very different in style but all express a life-affirming sense of identity intimately linked to their own country.
- 15 year old Dion is profoundly deaf and has muscular dystrophy but his love of dogs and his carer's love have transformed him.
- We meet Warumungu elder Leslie Foster, senior Traditional Owner of country around this famous phenomenon south of Tennant Creek in Central Australia. Leslie shares the dreaming stories of the Marbles' creation, speaks of his 28-year struggle to regain rights over this land, and celebrates recent transfer of title over the Devils Marbles to Traditional Owners for shared management with National Parks.
- The Kulanda and the people of Central Australia.
- This documentary focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development. Max Stuart, Thomas Stevens, Doris Stuart and other Elders talk about the importance of the sites in and around the city in terms of traditional Dreaming. They reflect on their sense of loss as sites are desecrated by urban development. The Caterpillar and Wild Dog Dreamings have many sites of critical importance in the area. Also threatened are the ancient gum trees in the Todd River, many of them of sacred significance and important to ceremony but being damaged by development and by outsiders passing through the area. As Doris Stuart says, "our whole being is tied up in these sites." The process of negotiation with the government and the city's developers are outlined by Indigenous lobbyist, Peter Renehan. Archival footage documents the hearings leading to the Native Title Act and the recognition of the Arrernte people as the first inhabitants of the Alice Springs area. A new process of consultation and co-operation with the traditional custodians of Knowledge and the Land is beginning to make a difference in terms of the protection of sacred sites.
- In 1955, filmmaker Chauvel debuted Jedda. His star was a young Arrernte woman from Alice Springs named Ngarla Kunoth, or Rosalie. Her story, the story of what happened before and after Chauvel's film, is told in Rosalie's Journey.
- 'Living Country' observes the campaign by Aboriginal people of central Australia to protect their land and lives from two proposed sites for uranium dump sites. For these people, their land sustains life: the land feeds and heals. Traditional bush tucker has fed generations, the bush supplies medicines, and these traditional homelands hold sacred sites and are the focus of ceremonial rites and dreaming stories. Steve McCormack and his family live 4km from one of the proposed sites on the Tanami Highway, 25km north-west of Alice Springs. They worry about the effect of the toxic waste on their water supply and bush tucker, as well as their own health. At Engawala homestead, 125km north-east of Alice Springs, and 12km from another proposed site, traditional owners Herbie Bloom and Kenny Tilmouth talk about their reliance on bush food. They stress the urgency for everyone to speak up and protest.
- A David and Goliath story of a small Aboriginal community in Australia and their successful struggle to stop uranium mining on their land.
- This is a film for those addicted to speed and dust."You must be crazy!" A documentary about the Indigenous participants of the 2005 Tattersalls' Finke Desert Race.
- Docu/Drama program deals with HIV/AIDS in the Aboriginal community throughout Central Australia's vast outback.