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BEDEVIL is an innovative rendering of three childhood mysteries from the imagination of filmmaker, visual artist and photographer Tracey Moffatt. Moffatt's breathtaking style - drawing on influences as diverse as Vincente Minelli and Masaki Kobayashi - makes BEDEVIL one of the most dazzling feature debuts in Australian cinema. BEDEVIL consists of three episodes making up the feature.
First feature film directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman.
Directed by Tracey Moffat
OFFICIAL SELECTION! Un Certain Regard, 1993 Cannes Film Festival
Ningla A-Na records the protests, arrests and life at the Aboriginal tent embassy on the lawns of old Parliament House. It incorporates interviews with black activists, the work of the National Black Theatre, Aboriginal Medical Service and Aboriginal Legal Service. It is a unique historical document that is the only record made with the co-operation of the protesters.
Watch Murundak: Songs of Freedom
A feature-length musical documentary film that follows the award-winning Black Arm Band, a gathering of some of Australia's finest Indigenous musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of resistance and freedom. From the concert halls of the Sydney Opera House to remote Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory, murundak brings together pioneering singers such as Archie Roach, Bart Willoughby, Jimmy Little, Kutcha Edwards and the late Ruby Hunter, as well as a stellar line-up of emerging Indigenous talent including Dan Sultan, Shellie Morris and Emma Donovan. murundak explores the need for Indigenous peoples to re-engage with their own culture and history.
This is the first two episodes.
Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station. Two unannounced visitors in town cause chaos as they uncover the mystery of the missing men
Directed by Rachel Perkins
A documentary series (3 episodes) that tells the extraordinary story of Australia's first wars, and calls for the First Peoples who died in these conflicts to be acknowledged by the nation and officially recognised by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. It investigates the frontier conflicts between 1788 and 1928 and their impact, asking Australians who we are, and what we want to become. Directed by Rachel Perkins.
Beyond the glitz, glue guns and glamour of black drag to reveal a fun, fabulous and sometimes fearful place. A sassy, intimate portrait of what it means to be an Indigenous drag queen.
Filmmaker Maya Newell follows a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy and his family as they strive to give him the best education possible. Dujuan is an inquisitive ten-year-old Arrernte/Garrwa boy who speaks three languages, understands his Aboriginal culture, loves his country and the natural world and seems to have a happy future in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). At home he is bright and contented, but problems begin at his mainstream school. His teachers are not trained to appreciate the students' Indigenous knowledge, and the books that Dujuan must read speak of an Australia that is not his at all. As he faces increasing scrutiny from welfare and police, his family battle to keep him safe, grounded in language, culture and identity - the only solution they know works.