DON’T LOOK DOWN takes you back to 1984, when Sir Richard Branson, a maverick British music mogul, made a big decision – to take on British Airways, and set up his own airline. But with just one plane, a minimal marketing budget, and a flair for self-promotion, Branson quickly realizes that…
Desert Around Me: the ADHD Epidemic a Challenge of Global Proportions is a film about ADHD and a famous race in the desert, the Marathon des Sables. Witness five elite athletes battle fatigue, the sand, the heat, and themselves as they run on behalf of TEAM I RUN4ULTRA for ADHD awareness while learning…
Winner of 2 Telly Awards for Best Documentary for Religion and for History, "The Blood & The Rose" is a feature length theatrical documentary shot on location in Mexico and Spain, The Blood & The Rose offers riveting interviews with top experts in the fields of science, history and…
With the birth of his first child, Independent filmmaker Darren Doane picked up his camera and began documenting the process of becoming a family. Ten years in the making, THEY GROW UP FAST is a profound and entertaining documentary for the entire family. From mud puddles and family road trips to…
THE HOLLYWOOD SHORTIES is a documentary on the birth of organized sports in the American dwarf community. Beginning in the 1950s and rising to prominence in the 1980s, the Hollywood Shorties were a basketball team, the first of their kind and unique in the history of dwarf athletics. Formed from an insular…
A film by Jane Oehr. French language with English subtitles TEA WITH MADAME CLOS is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France. Couched in the framework of a train journey, the filmmaker remembers her many encounters over four years…
A film by Frances Calvert. The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia’s ‘other’ Indigenous minority. They remained virtually unknown until 1988 when they made their brief claim for independence. Since first contact with whites in 1871, they have been controlled by benign but effective…
DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM MATERIALS! One of the major works produced by the AIAS Film Unit, this documentary observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal community of political and bureaucratic decisions made far away. Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal…
A film by Kay Donovan. TAGGED is the story of four young people growing up in Sydney's western suburbs at a time when the public spotlight is on the notorious suburb of Bankstown. While the media runs hot with stories of youth crime and stereotypes of gangs, drugs and drive-bys, these teenagers…
At midnight on Sunday May 31, 1942, three Japanese midget submarines broke through Sydney Harbour's defences and launched a surprise attack on an ill-prepared city. During that night of confusion and violence, 21 Australian and 6 Japanese service personnel lost their lives. Sydney At War recounts…
NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) The story of an Aboriginal stockman and his family and their growing passion for “picnic racing” on bush tracks in New South Wales. SUNNY AND THE DARK HORSE was filmed at Collum Collum, an Aboriginal-operated cattle station in north-eastern New South Wales.…
