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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
- Two girls go head to head for the role of a lifetime.
- 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.
- Fresh out of the academy, White Cop experiences his first taste of Aboriginal community life, as Black Cop puts him to the test.
- 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.
- Docu/Drama program deals with HIV/AIDS in the Aboriginal community throughout Central Australia's vast outback.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This reveals for the first time on film the Australian Aboriginal peoples' version of their first contact with white culture which was to change their traditional way of life forever.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Driving through the outback, a Japanese tourist accidentally hits two iconic Australian animals.
- 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.