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Indigenous DVD List May10 Federation Library IINNDDIIGGEENNOOUUSS MMAATTTTEERRSS DDVVDDss Available for loan May 2010 5 seasons . Moses Numamurdirdi and his system, alleging he was verbally and physically abused by family (Numurindi people) fight to hold onto the police. He went on to spend 14 years in prison for a crime their culture and ways in an ever-changing he claims he did not commit. (55 min.) DVD BRO world. (52 min.) DVD FIV Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Cross cultural awareness. According to the accompanying Aboriginal dance: three dances by Gulpilill / Five guide, “this resource is designed to Aboriginal dances from Cape York . Two programs of some gain entry level understanding and traditional Aboriginal dances. (15 min.) DVD ABO appreciation for Aboriginal Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). traditional and contemporary cultural diversity.” The DVD Arrernte dreaming. This DVD provides students with an opportunity to explore Aboriginal tells one of the Dreaming and non Aboriginal peoples experiences of cultural stories of Central Australia’s awareness issues. The publisher recommends that it be used Arrernte people. In the story of in conjunction with Arrernte dreaming, Nyungar dreaming, the fearsome Bungulunga Man Tiwi dreaming, and Stolen generations: incident at Menindee viewers learn about the Mission . (32 min.) DVD CRO importance of acting as a community and caring for others. The publisher recommends Crossing the line. When two young non- that it be used in conjunction with Cross cultural awareness . Indigenous medical students work in a remote (17 min.) DVD ARR Aboriginal community, their professional precepts and personal ideas are deeply Babakiueria: a black comedy. A light- challenged. (56 min.) DVD CRO hearted satire that reverses the roles, Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). imagining what it would be like if a fleet of Indigenous Australians arrived to try and settle an area inhabited by white Deadly yarns. Short films made by natives. (30 min.) DVD BAB Indigenous filmmakers for the ABC’s Classification : PG (Mild themes). Message stick series. The films are Broken bonds (5:45 min.), Don’t say sorry (6:24), Black and white. This courtroom drama, based on a true Ganggu mama (11:45), Miss Coolbaroo story, tells the story of an Aboriginal man accused of raping (8:19) and Sugar bag (8:12). (Total time: 41 and killing a young girl. [See also Broken English , a min.) DVD DEA documentary about the accused man.] (101 min.) DVD BLA Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Classification : M (Adult themes; Medium level coarse language; Medium level violence). Deadly yarns 2. Includes Adrift (6:18 min.), Frankie’s story (6:48), Main actors (6:08), Black chicks talking. Leah Purcell talks with five Indigenous Talkabout walkabout (8:25) and Weewar (6:00). women, individually and together. The women are Roseanna (Total time: 34 min.) DVD DEA Angus, a community warden and cultural tour guide; Kathryn Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Hay, the first Aboriginal Miss Australia; Deborah Mailman, an actress; Cilla Malone, a mother of six from Cherbourg, an Deadly yarns 3. Includes Bollywood Aboriginal settlement in south-east Queensland; and Tammy dreaming (7:49 min.), Karla (7:10), Who Williams, a lawyer who wants to become the UN High paintin’ dis Wandjina (8.04), Wrong way Commissioner for Human Rights. (50 min.) DVD BLA (7:14) and You’re not playing that! (4:33) Classification : M (Low level coarse language). (Total time: 35 min.) DVD DEA Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Broken English. Arrernte man Rupert Max Stuart has always maintained his innocence of the rape and murder of a young white girl in 1958. In Broken English , a film combining documentary and drama, we hear from Max and others involved in the case. Max Stuart claims he was a victim of the white justice NSW TEACHERS FEDERATION LIBRARY OPENING HOURS Mon – Fri: 9 am – 5 pm 1st floor, 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills 2010 Locked Bag 3010 Darlinghurst NSW 1300 Council Saturday: 10 am – 1.30 pm Ph: 02 9217 2113 Fax: 02 9217 2481 Email: [email protected] Web: www.nswtf.org.au/library/ Indigenous Matters DVDs 2 Deadly yarns 4. Includes Mabuji (5:09 min.), My The Foundation 1963-1977. During the nan & the yandi (7:40), George & the ngurrungu 1960s, as the Koori population in Sydney (6:33), Culture clash (8:03) and Music men grew, 'The Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs' (7:13) (Total running time: 35 min.) DVD DEA emerged. Established by Charles Perkins Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). and other Aboriginal activists, with the support of influential white citizens, its role Dhakiyarr vs the King. In 1933, on Woodah was to assist rural Aboriginal people who had Island, in north-east Arnhem Land, the Yolngu leader, migrated to the city. (26 min.) DVD FOU Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda speared Constable McColl, who had Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). chained up his wife. This was Dhakiyarr’s land and his response was in accordance with his law. On the advice of Freedom Ride. “One of the first Aboriginal missionaries he travelled to Darwin to explain his actions in people to graduate from university, Charles the Northern Territory Supreme Court. Seventy years after Perkins soon came to the forefront of direct his controversial murder trial and disappearance, the family is action against oppression and injustice, still searching for truth and his body. (56 min.) DVD DHA leading the 1965 freedom rides that Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). challenged apartheid practices in northern NSW. This film [directed and produced by Documentaries that changed the world Vol 2: John his daughter Rachel] takes [him] back to Moree and Walgett Pilger's Australia. Includes Welcome to Australia [PG (adult and uses newsreel footage and dramatic reconstructions to themes)], The secret country , Other people’s wars [G], retrace his story.” – Back cover. (55 min.) DVD FRE Heroes unsung [M 15+] and Secrets . (3 DVDs: 275 min.) Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). DVD JOH Classification : See note beside each title; some are not classified. The fringe dwellers. This film deals with cultural bigotry and society’s unsympathetic treatment of Trilby Comeaway The Dreaming. Seventy-eight animated stories from the (Kristina Nehm), an Aboriginal girl who has bought into the Dreaming. Suitable for primary students. Teacher’s Guide Anglo dream of upward mobility and assimilation into also available. (6 DVDs: 1110 min.) DVD DRE mainstream white society. (97 min.) DVD FRI Classification : PG. Embassy days. On Australia Day, 1972, four young Indigenous activists arrived on the lawns of Parliament From little things, big things grow. A House in Canberra with little idea their small protest would documentary about Kev Carmody, whose turn into a major defining period of Australia's modern history. 1989 debut album, Pillars of Society , was The Aboriginal Tent Embassy became a national voice for described by Rolling Stone as “the best Aboriginal Australians, playing a major role in the creation of album ever released by an Aborigine and the first Australian land rights legislation. (54 min.) DVD EMB arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia.” (55 min.) DVD FRO First Australians: the untold story of Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). Australia. This series, covering the period from 1788 to 1992, “chronicles the birth of Harry's war . Focuses on the life of a young Aboriginal contemporary Australia as never told before, soldier, Harry, who leaves Condah Mission to fight for his from the perspective of its first people…. First country in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War. Australians depicts the true stories of He joins his mate Mitch, a non-Aboriginal Australian. It is a individuals - both black and white - caught in story of mateship, brothers in arms and friendship that an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in embraces culture, war and death. (27 min.) DVD HOL Australia's most transformative period of history.” – Back Classification : M (Medium level violence). cover. (7 DVDs: 980 min.: each disc contains 80 minutes of bonus educational content.) DVD FIR Holistic planning and teaching framework. Employs the Classification : PG (Mild themes). life experiences of Ernie Grant to demonstrate the elements of the Framework. Produced by the Indigenous Schooling First citizen: Albert Namatjira. Explores how Support Unit, Education Queensland. (90 min.) DVD HOL Namatjira became the first Aboriginal artist to adopt the painting techniques and modes of Jardiwarnpa: a Warlpiri fire ceremony. expression of a culture in direct contrast to his “Law man Darby Jampinjimpa Ross and own. (55 min.) DVD FIR other Warlpiri elders introduce us to their Classification : G. community's fire ceremony…. [T]he film follows the staging of the ceremony, The Forgotten. A film about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait involving hundreds of people, over several Islander servicemen and women who have served in the weeks – part of the process of retaining Australian forces in wars and peace-keeping missions during traditional law and culture within the community.” – Back the past 100 years. (27 min.) DVD FOR cover. (55 min.) DVD JAR Classification : Exempt. Classification : Exempt (for educational use only). NSW TEACHERS FEDERATION LIBRARY OPENING HOURS Mon – Fri: 9 am – 5 pm 1st floor, 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills 2010 Locked Bag 3010 Darlinghurst NSW 1300 Council Saturday: 10 am – 1.30 pm Ph: 02 9217 2113 Fax: 02 9217 2481 Email: [email protected] Web: www.nswtf.org.au/library/ Indigenous Matters DVDs 3 Kanyini: over 40,000 years of culture - Our community . An exploration of the concept of one philosophy that connects us all. A 'community' via an intimate expedition through listed traditional owner of Uluru and former the townships of Walgett, Lightning Ridge and Indigenous Person of the Year, Bob Randall, Sheep Yard.
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