A film by Margaret Anne Smith. The people of Australia’s deep north have lived in a multiracial frontier society, long before the south accepted non-Anglo migrants. The tropical north has different ancestors, architecture, music, fashions, food, vegetation and work ethics and has cultural ties…
Andy Tjilari and Rupert Peters show how they, as employees of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council, go about using traditional healing methods in contemporary Anungu life. As Andy and Rupert travel the dirt roads of the vast central western desert, we learn about how…
January 30th 2015 marked what would have been the 80th birthday of Edward Brian Hayes, known to the world of jazz as Tubby. A professional jazz musician at just fifteen, by his untimely death at thirty-eight, he had left behind a body of work, that has both stood the test of time and has proven to be…
PARENTS TRANSGENRES est un documentaire qui parle de l’amour, de la vie et des enfants après une transition de genre. Le film partage les difficultés et les forces de plusieurs femmes et hommes transgenres naviguant différents stades de leur vie parentale: de la grossesse à…
Ethical questions raised by 'test tube babies'. Developments have made it possible for previously infertile women to bear children by the extraction of ova which are then implanted - the so-called test tube babies. This raises many ethical questions. Several of the women explain how much…
People with learning disabilities speak about people's attitudes to them. What do we mean when we say "mentally handicapped"? Historically, people with learning disabilities have been seen as demons, ogres, monsters or helpless objects of pity. The programme asks if any of these attitudes…
Eine Reisereportage mit Bildern und Filmen. - Der Fotograf, Filmer und Weltreisender versetzt seine Zuschauer in eine Welt wo man den Atem vor Faszination anhält, den Alltag einfach vergisst und die Kulisse perfekt ist. Unterwegs ist er zu den entlegensten und schönsten Plätzen der Erde,…
George Wilson from London and Reinhardt from Nürnberg have a difficult mission (mission impossible). Together with their men from Fagioli – PLC they are going to dismantle the worlds largest crane and move it to South Korea. In February next year the crane will be working at the Hyundai Shipyard…
A film by Mia Donovan (Inside Lara Roxx). DEPROGRAMMED chronicles Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His practice of ‘deprogramming’, also known as ‘reverse brainwashing’, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground…
Puffin Patrol a 60-minute documentary for CBC Television’s The Nature of Things that explores the life of puffins from eastern Newfoundland, to remote locations in Maine and Wales. The documentary examines puffin’s unique migration patterns, feeding habits, navigational patterns, and decreasing…
Family Foibles is a series of five half-hour documentaries that examine contemporary Australian families. Each story revolves around a family confronting a problem. These range from the relatively benign issue of omission in the telling of a family history to domestic violence and the threat of family…
A film by Safina Uberoi. It is no wonder that Safina Uberoi made a film about her family: She has an Indian father who collects kitch calendars, an Australian mother who hangs her knickers out to dry in front of the horrified Indian neighbours, a grandfather who was a self-styled Guru and a fiercely…
