WELCOME TO SCREEN AUSTRALIA’S 2008 INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY CATALOGUE.

Screen Australia is proud to continue Film Australia’s 60-year heritage, representing a diverse range of high-quality factual titles produced under the National Interest Program and Making History Initiative together with several independently produced programs – marketing them to broadcasters, digital media operators, airlines and video distributors around the globe.

Our 2008 catalogue lists titles under nine key genres – Arts & Music, Biography, Crime & Investigation, Current Affairs, History, Natural History, People & Society, Science Health & Medicine and Sport & Leisure. However you will ! nd many of our titles also ! t within other areas and a comprehensive index is provided at the end of the catalogue including NEW, High De! nition, Series, Docu-Dramas, Animation/Shorts, Adventure & Travel, Gender Issues and War & Military. We are pleased to provide an extensive and diverse catalogue of over 125 factual programmes for you to select from.

Art & Music 2 Biography 8 Crime & Investigation 10 Current Affairs 12 History 18 Natural History 26 People & Society 30 Science, Health & Medicine 38 Sport & Leisure 42 UNFOLDING FLORENCE THE MANY LIVES OF FLORENCE BROADHURST

1 x 82 minutes – HIGH DEFINITION

Producers: Charles Hannah, Sue Clothier, Nicola Lawrence (Associate Producer) Director: Gillian Armstrong

Join acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong as she reveals the many lives of one larger-than-life woman – fl amboyant design pioneer, Florence Broadhurst. Now, more 100 years after her birth, Florence’s bold, exotic designs have been rediscovered by the world’s leading fashion, interior and homeware designers and are in huge demand – but, as we discover, nothing about Florence Broadhurst was as it seemed. This is the story of a gutsy, head- strong, imposing and almost impossibly glamorous woman.

A Film Australia/Becker Entertainment Production produced in association with the NSW Film and Television Offi ce and SBS Independent. A fi lm by Gillian Armstrong.

Finalist – Sundance Film Festival. Selected to screen – Sheffi eld International Documentary Festival. Winner – St Louis International Film Festival. Finalist – Montreal World Film Festival. Finalist – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, The Czech Republic. Finalist – Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain. Finalist – AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards. Finalist – IF Inside Film Awards, Australia. Winner – Australian Screen Editors Awards. Winner – AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild). Finalist – Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Winner – Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards.

2 Art & Music THE ART BURIED OF WAR COUNTRY

4 x 26 minutes 1 x 55 minutes or 1 x 75 minutes

Producers: John Hughes, Betty Churcher Producer: Liz Watts Director: John Hughes Director: Andy Nehl Writer: Betty Churcher

In The Art of War, Betty Churcher brings Where black Americans turned to the blues, her unique perspective to a series on art Aboriginal Australians found inspiration in inspired or provoked by a century of confl ict, country and western music and created a from World War One to the “war on terror”. style of their own. From the bush to the city, A personal exploration of art rather than Aboriginal people have used country music a comprehensive history, it reveals how to tell their stories of life and the struggle for dramatically attitudes to war have changed, justice. Featuring rare recordings, archival and how radically the trauma of war has images and fi rst-hand interviews with the changed art itself. Drawing on Australian singers and songwriters, Buried Country images from offi cial war artists, soldiers traces six decades of this rich tradition. on the frontline or in POW camps, civilians in concentration camps and those on the A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced in association with SBS Independent. homefront, it is a story of unknown artists and famous names alike. Audience Award for Best Documentary, Hawaii International Film Festival.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Early Works. Produced with the support of the Australian War Memorial and in association with SBS Independent.

Winner – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Finalist – Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards. Honorable Mention – Sydney Morning Herald Couch Potato Awards

Art & Music 3 THE DREAMINGS THE EDGE FACING CELLULOID THE ART OF OF THE WORLD THE MUSIC ABORIGINAL HEROES AUSTRALIA

4 x 56 minutes 1 x 30 minutes 1 x 55 minutes 1 x 85 minutes

Producer: Anthony Buckley Producer: Janet Bell, Tony Wilson Producer: Don Featherstone Producers/Writers/Directors: Directors: Robert Francis, Donald Crombie (Associate Producer) Writer/Director: Geoffrey Bennett Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson Director: Michael Riley

By the end of 1911 Australia had made over Journey into the sacred heartland of Australia The Edge of the World gives a unique insight Inside the halls of Sydney University’s Music 20 full length feature fi lms, a full year before to see traditional Aboriginal artists at work. into the intriguing work of Tim Winton, one of Department, talented young students create Hollywood had made it’s fi rst…The Celluloid The artists talk of their work, its association Australia’s fi nest authors. A “child prodigy”, sublime music in a setting that’s far from Heroes is a four-part series that traces the with the land and its spiritual connection with Winton won the Vogel Award at 21, the Miles serene. After nearly a decade of relentless history of Australian cinema from these their people, the animals and plants. The fi lm Franklin Award at 24, the Deo Gloria Award government funding cuts, Professor extraordinary origins to the 1990s. Narrated explores the meanings behind the works, from and the Miles Franklin again at 32 and was Anne Boyd is struggling to preserve basic by Bryan Brown, it recognises Australia’s acrylic dot paintings of the Central Desert to shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. In standards. But Boyd is an innocent when it great talent, both on the screen and behind cross-hatched bark paintings and burial poles this fi lm, Winton talks about his work, his comes to harsh economic realities. Forced to the camera. of northern Australia, as it allows the viewer infl uences and motivations. drop staff and courses and pick up the phone access to the oldest continuous art tradition to plead for private sponsorship, the usually A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced in the world. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Developed conservative Boyd is forced to fi ght for what in association with the National Film and Sound Archive. with the assistance of the NSW Film & Television Offi ce. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Produced with the assistance of the Australian she believes in. Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia National Interest Program Broadcasting Corporation. Finalist ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Finalist ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards with Arundel Films, Channel Four Television and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Finalist – Joris Ivens Competition – International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Invited to Screen – Sheffi eld International Documentary Conference, UK. Winner – Best Documentary – AFI Awards, Australia. Winner – Silver Conch for Second Best Documentary – MIFF Awards, India. Winner – Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Finalist ATOM Awards. Winner – DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, USA. Winner – Discovery Network Award for Best Documentary – Inside Film (IF) Awards, Australia.

4 Art & Music

64108 Text.indd A4 3/9/08 9:26:25 AM HIDDEN HIDDEN AN IMAGINARY MR PATTERNS TREASURES TREASURES LIFE INSIDE THE NATIONAL INSIDE THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

15 x 5 minutes 10 x 5 minutes – NEW 1 x 57 minutes 1 x 54 minutes

Producers: John Hughes, Philippa Campey Producers: Betty Churcher, John Hughes Executive Producers: Chris Oliver, Neil Mundy Producers: Nic Testoni, Jo Plomley, Director: John Hughes Director: John Hughes Producer/Director/Writer: Don Featherstone Megan McMurchy Director: Catriona McKenzie

The National Gallery of Australia has more The National Library of Australia is the An illuminating profi le of the writer David In the 1970s in Australia’s Western Desert, than 100,000 works in its collection – from country’s largest reference library with over Malouf, recognised as one of the world’s a teacher named Geoff Bardon helped start decorative arts to photography and sculpture nine million items in its collection, including fi nest novelists and poets. In 1996, his book one of the most signifi cant art movements of – but only a fraction of these can be exhibited a surprising number of art works. In a new Remembering Babylon was considered by the 20th century. Working with the Aboriginal at one time. In this series of micro-docs, series of Hidden Treasures, Betty Churcher IMPAC literary judges to be the best novel community at Papunya, he encouraged the former director of the gallery Betty Churcher presents an insider’s guide to some of the written by anyone, anywhere, in any language, people to paint their traditional dot designs presents an insider’s guide to some of the little known and rarely displayed art treasures in the preceding three years. Narrated using western materials. In defi ance of white “hidden treasures” that are rarely on public held by the National Library. From her unique by Geoffrey Rush and shot in Australia, authorities, Bardon also encouraged the artists display. These are fascinating tales – about vantage point, Churcher makes intriguing Italy, England and Ireland, this fi lm uses a to value their work commercially as well as the works themselves, the people who historical connections between paintings and combination of dramatisations, interviews and spiritually, believing that by selling paintings the created them and the challenge of preserving engravings, photography, manuscripts and archival footage to explore Malouf’s life and people could become independent of welfare them – and a tantalising look at some of artefacts, illustrated journals and diaries. work, interweaving the imagined world of his as well as bring Indigenous art to the attention the ideas and infl uences that have shaped writing with the places and experiences that of the wider community. This is his story. modern art across the globe. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with have inspired him. Early Works. Produced in association with the Australian A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Broadcasting Corporation. With special thanks to the National Reel World Productions. Developed with the assistance of the A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Library of Australia. A Film Australia and RM Associates production. with Early Works. Produced with the assistance of the Produced with the assistance of the Australian Australian Film Commission and the NSW Film and Television Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcasting Corporation. Offi ce. Developed and produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Winner – Hot Docs! Canada. Finalist – Banff World Television Festival. Certifi cate for Creative Excellence – US International Finalist – Hors Concours – Banff Television Festival. Invited Film and Video Festival. Finalist – Sydney Film Festival Dendy to screen – Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Winner Awards. Finalist – International Festival of Films on Art. – Golden Maile Award, Hawaii International Film Festival. Winner – Golden Spire – San Francisco International Film Finalist – Focal Awards, UK. Winner – AFI (Australian Film Festival (Golden Gate Awards). Winner – Australian Guild of Institute) Awards. Winner – Best Documentary, Film Critics Screen Composers Awards Circle of Australia Awards. Winner – Pacifi c International Documentary Film Festival

Art & Music 5 PETER BERNER’S PHOTO- SADNESS TOSCA LOADED BRUSH GRAPHERS OF A TALE OF LOVE AUSTRALIA AND TORTURE

1 x 57 minutes 1 x 43 minutes 1 x 52 minutes 1 x 85 minutes or 1 x 55 minutes

Producer: Sally Regan Producers: Gregory Read, Wolfgang Producers: Michael McMahon, Megan Producer: Patricia Lovell Director: Edwina Throsby Knochell, Sharon Connolly (Supervising McMurchy Director: Trevor Graham Producer) Writer/Director: Tony Ayres, based on the Director: Gregory Read original work Sadness by William Yang

Stand-up comic, media presenter and World-acclaimed photographers Max Dupain, Award-winning photographer William Tosca is a tale of love, torture and despair – former art student Peter Berner is swapping Wolfgang Sievers and David Moore’s careers Yang explores issues of grief, family and and that’s before the curtain goes up! Popular banter for brushes in a serious bid for artistic have spanned more than 60 years. Join us as identity in this adaptation of his acclaimed diva Joan Carden has played the passionate acceptance. He’s decided to tackle the we explore their most memorable and poignant stage performance, Sadness. Through this title role many times but her two co-stars are subject he knows and loves best – himself images, from Dupain’s beach scenes to the mesmerising, poetic montage of story telling, new to this Opera Australia production. With – and enter a self-portrait into the Archibald industrial images of Sievers and the landscapes photography and stylised reenactment, Yang only three weeks before the season starts, Prize. This is a video diary of his endeavours and photojournalism of David Moore. brings to life the stories of his family and not everyone is sure they will make it. This from blank canvas to judgement day, including friends. Sadness has two themes. The fi rst fi lm goes behind the scenes, from day one interviews with other artists and critics about A Film Australia Production. Concept developed involves an exploration of Yang’s Chinese- of rehearsals to opening night at the Sydney by Paper Bark Films Pty Limited. the creative process. Australian identity and family history, while Opera House. the second centres on his experience of loss A Film Australia National Interest Program. during the AIDS epidemic. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with Produced with the assistance of the Australian the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Winner – Television Arts Category – San Francisco Finalist – International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Hungary Produced in association with SBS Independent. International Film Festival (Golden Gate Awards). Finalist – Best Documentary – Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Winner – Guangzhou International Documentary Film Finalist – Shanghai Television Festival – Magnolia Awards. Festival. Nominated Best Documentary – Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. Winner – Australian Writers’ Guild Awards. Winner – Best Australian Documentary – Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Finalist – New York Festivals: International Television Programming & Promotion

6 Art & Music TWO AN UNSTOPPABLE VIETNAM WILDERNESS THIRDS SKY FORCE SYMPHONY ARTISTS IN BETTY CHURCHER DESERT COUNTRY WITH JOHN OLSEN

1 x 52 minutes 1 x 26 minutes – NEW 1 x 52 minutes 1 x 55 minutes

Producer: Sophie Jackson Producers: John Hughes, Betty Churcher Producer: Kerry Herman Producer: Michael McMahon Writer/Director: Sean O’Brien Director: John Hughes Writer/Director: Tom Zubrycki Writer/Director: Scott Millwood

A unique cinematic portrait, Two Thirds Sky Acclaimed artist John Olsen, talks with art In 1965, as the Vietnam War intensifi ed, Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis reveals different ways of seeing the Australian critic Betty Churcher about his prodigious life’s students and teachers from the Hanoi were perhaps Australia’s greatest wilderness desert. It follows the creative journeys of fi ve work. We see Olsen in his spectacular studio National Conservatory of Music were forced photographers. Their work became contemporary artists – Indigenous and non- and hear about his work as a formidable to fl ee the city for the relative safety of a village synonymous with campaigns to protect Indigenous – from blank canvas to fi nished landscape painter, the infl uence of poetry in the countryside. With the help of villagers, Tasmania’s natural heritage. Both came from painting. Each artist has a different relationship on his art, his restless love of the Australian they built an entire campus underground, Baltic Europe and migrated to Tasmania, where to the land they paint yet all are attempting to landscape, his time living in an artists’ colony creating a maze of hidden tunnels connecting their passion for nature became a crusade to express their identity and sense of belonging as well as working in Spain. Olsen has won an auditorium and classrooms. There, as the save an environment under threat. Both died in through their work. Combined with stunning many awards including the Archibald Prize in war raged around them, they lived, studied the wilderness, doing what they loved, and left a images of the landscape, this is an unusual 2005 for his self-portrait. and played music for fi ve years. Vietnam legacy in extraordinary images contributing not insight into the connections between art and Symphony tells their extraordinary story. only to their art, but an emerging environmental place and our changing attitudes to Australia’s A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Combining remarkable archival footage consciousness. Their philosophy was simple Early Works. Produced in association with the Australian beautiful yet harsh outback. Broadcasting Corporation. with contemporary interviews and a sublime and remarkably effective – if people could see soundtrack, it paints a portrait of life then the beauty of Australia’s wild places then they Produced by Arcadia Pictures in association with SBS and now, in a rapidly changing nation. might be moved to save them. Independent. Financed by the Australian Film Finance Corporation. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Winner – Best Local Documentary – Herald Critics Awards. Stonebridge Productions. Developed with the assistance of with Big and Little Films. Developed with the assistance Special Award – ATOM Awards. Finalist – Australian Film the Australian Film Commission. Produced in association with of the Australian Film Commission. Produced with the Institute (AFI) Awards. Distinction – National Australian the NSW Film and Television Offi ce and SBS Independent. assistance of Film Victoria, Screen Tasmania and the Cinematographers Society Awards. Highly Commended Australian Broadcasting Corporation. – Dendy Awards, Australia. Finalist – Film Critics Circle of Finalist – Golden Maile Award for Best Documentary, Hawaii Australia Awards International Film Festival. Finalist – Pusan International Film Joint Winner – Audience Vote for Best Documentary, London Festival, Korea. Winner – Silver Conch Award, MIFF Awards, Australian Film Festival. Finalist – Thessaloniki Documentary India. Winner – AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards. Winner Festival, Greece. Finalist – MIFF Awards, India. Finalist – – Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards Ecocinema International Film Festival, Greece. Finalist – Trento International Film Festival of Mountains and Exploration, Italy. Winner – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards. Finalist – Tasmania Awards for Environmental Excellence, Australia

Art & Music 7 MABO LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN

1 x 87 minutes

Producer: Denise Haslem, Trevor Graham (Co-producer) Writer/Director: Trevor Graham

This is the story of an extraordinary man. Eddie Koiki Mabo, was so passionate about family and home that he fought an entire nation and its legal system for what he believed was right. Through his struggle, the notion that Australia was an empty land when fi rst occupied by white people was laid to rest by the highest court in the land and, after more than 200 years of struggle, European law was fi nally forced to come to grips with pre-existing indigenous law, changing the legal and political landscape of Australia forever.

A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Third Place – US International Film and Video Festival. Finalist – Best International Documentary over 60 minutes – HOT DOCS! Canada. Invited to Screen – Margaret Mead Film and Television Festival. Winner – Best Script – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Winner Best Documentary – Sydney Film Festival. Winner – Best Documentary AFI Awards.

8 Biography THE FABRIC THE TROUBLE UNCLE OF A DREAM WITH MERLE CHATZKEL THE FLETCHER JONES STORY

1 x 52 minutes 1 x 55 minutes 1 x 52 minutes

Producer: Melanie Coombs Producer: David Noakes Producers: Rod Freedman, Emile Sherman Writer/Director: Dennis K Smith Writer/Director: Marée Delofski Director: Rod Freedman

This is the story of how a shellshocked Merle Oberon was one of the biggest Chatzkel Lemchen has lived through the World War One veteran, who’d left school Hollywood movie stars of the 1930s and Russian revolution, two world wars, the at 12, ended up creating a national icon. An 1940s. Studio publicists said she was born Holocaust, a communist regime and the inspiring man with bold and imaginative ideas, into a wealthy family in Hobart, Tasmania – transition of Lithuania from Soviet republic to Fletcher Jones was infl uenced by Japanese Australia’s island state. Yet rumour was that an independent state. Much of his family and reformer Toyohiko Kagawa, one of the most the exotic almond-eyed actress concealed most of his fellow Jewish citizens were killed remarkable social activists of his time. Jones her true past. It was said she was actually by the Nazis and their Lithuanian supporters. established his clothing design, retail and “oriental”, perhaps Anglo-Indian, and born Chatzkel, however, survived through his skills manufacturing business with an emphasis in Calcutta. The Trouble with Merle looks at as a linguist and lexicographer. His dictionaries on quality, service and innovation. But his celebrity, memory, identity, race and class… helped preserve the local language during primary concern was for people – both his and at why Merle Oberon’s origins mattered the Soviet era and he is now regarded as a customers and his workers – and they, in turn, to people on a tiny island, in a country at the national treasure. But his success belies his were intensely loyal. This is a celebration of bottom of the world. sometimes lonely existence. Years of isolation the man and his dream – of a model working end when his Australian relatives arrive, environment based on values other than A Film Australia National Interest Program in association including his great nephew, fi lmmaker Rod with SeeView Pictures. Developed with the assistance of simple profi t – set against the backdrop of the Australian Film Commission and the NSW Film and Freedman. Who better than Uncle Chatzkel 20th century history. Television Offi ce. Produced with the assistance of the to help these visitors understand their roots. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Finalist – MIFF Awards, India A Film Australian National Interest Program produced in association with Melodrama Pictures. Produced with the assistance of with Robe Productions and SBS Independent. Developed with the Film Victoria and in association with SBS Independent. assistance of the NSW Film and Television Offi ce.

Finalist – Banff World Television Festival. Finalist – AWGIE Winner Director Award International Documentary – New (Australian Writers’ Guild) Awards. Winner – VIC & TAS York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Australian Cinematographers Society Awards Winner – Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards. Internet and Mobile rights not available. Winner Audience Award – Washington Jewish Film Festival. Finalist – ATOM Awards. Finalist – Gold Panda Awards – Internet and Mobile rights not available. Sichuan TV Festival: International Gold Panda Awards for Documentary. Finalist Shanghai Television Festival.

Biography 9 WHO KILLED DR BOGLE AND MRS CHANDLER?

1 x 56 minutes

Producers: Peter Butt, Kristine Wyld Writer/Director: Peter Butt

At last, an answer to one of crime history’s great unsolved cases. When the bodies of brilliant physicist Dr Gilbert Bogle and his lover Mrs Margaret Chandler were found in bizarre circumstances on a Sydney riverbank in 1963, it captured the public imagination and launched an unprecedented murder investigation. However, the Coroner could fi nd no cause of death, killer or motive. Some suggested it was a Cold War assassination, others claimed it was an overdose of LSD. Now, four decades later, a new investigation uncovers explosive new evidence.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Blackwattle Films. Produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Winner – TV Week Logie Awards. Finalist – SCINEMA International Festival of Science Film, Video & Multimedia, Australia. Winner – Sydney Morning Herald Couch Potato Awards. Finalist – Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards. Finalist – Walkley Awards, Australia. Winner – Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Finalist – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards

10 Crime & Investigation COMMUNITY DHAKIYARR EVERY IN THE COP VS THE KING FAMILY’S REALM OF NIGHTMARE THE HACKERS

1 x 56 minutes – NEW 1 x 56 minutes 1 x 52 minutes – NEW / HIGH DEFINITION 1 x 55 minutes

Producer: Sally Ingleton Producer: Graeme Isaac Producers: Julia Redwood, Ed Punchard, Producer: John Moore, Suelette Dreyfus Writer/Director: Helen Gaynor Directors: Tom Murray, Allan Collins John McCourt (Development Producer) (Associate Producer) Director: Michael Munz Writer/Director: Kevin Anderson Writer: John McCourt

Thirty-something police offi cer Andy starts his The family of the great Yolngu leader Dhakiyarr A teenager is falsely accused of rape. In 1989, two Melbourne teenage hackers new posting as ‘community cop’ at a high-rise Wirrpanda is searching for answers. Seventy The police mishandle the investigation. known as Electron and Phoenix stole a housing estate. Waves of refugees have fi lled years after his controversial murder trial and Eleven months go by while the wheels restricted computer security list and used these fl ats since the 1960s. Andy’s keen to subsequent disappearance, Dhakiyarr’s body of justice grind through their process. it to break into some of the world’s most meet, greet and win the confi dence of the has still not been found. His descendants classifi ed and supposedly secure computer diverse, volatile and complex neighbourhood know that justice was not served. They want A Film Australia National Interest Program in association systems. So fast and widespread was the with Prospero Productions Pty Ltd. Produced in association where thieving from soft targets and gang to restore what was denied to him: his honour. with SBS Independent. attack, no-one could work out how it had activity are the main policing concerns. Can This is their story, told in their own words – happened – until one of the hackers called he make a difference? He must learn to talk to of two laws, two cultures and two families The New York Times to brag. Soon the US women who wear veils and won’t make eye coming to terms with the past. Secret Service and the FBI were on their trail contact with men outside their own family, who and, within months, the Australian Federal are used to seeing their own sons searched A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced Police had raided their homes. Ten years with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting and arrested by him and his colleagues. He Corporation and CAAMA Productions. after their arrest, this dramatised documentary has to earn the trust of hostile and suspicious uncovers not only how they did it but why. It Finalist – Sundance Film Festival. Finalist – Chicago Sudanese and Somalian teenagers, some International Documentary Film Festival. High Commendation takes us headlong into the clandestine, risky of whom are former child soldiers. He – Human Rights Medal and Awards. Winner – Sydney Film but intoxicating world of the computer Festival Dendy Awards. Finalist – Asia Pacifi c Film Festival. must endure the scrutiny and ridicule of his Finalist – Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Winner – underground. workmates who see his role as a soft option. NSW Premier’s History Awards It is a baptism by fi re. Success could mean A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with John Moore Productions. Developed and produced with the a life-changing experience for him and the assistance of Film Victoria. Produced with the assistance of residents. Failure could re-ignite the tensions the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. that led to a near meltdown in the fl ats and Winner – Silver Award, VIC / TAS State Australian government intervention. Only time will tell. Cinematographers Society Awards, Voted Top 10 Documentaries by Audience – Sydney Film Festival, Finalist – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with 360 Degree Films. Produced in association with SBS Independent.

Crime & Investigation 11 GONE TO A GOOD HOME

1 x 52 minutes

Producer: Mark Chapman Director: Karen Berkman

For three decades, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Australian authorities pressured many unmarried mothers to give up their babies for adoption into what they considered “better” homes – those of married couples. At a time when society had no place for single mothers and their illegitimate children, these women were unaware of their legal rights. Sometimes they were coerced, even drugged, and their babies literally stolen. Despite arguments that the practice was well-intentioned, for the individuals involved the ongoing impact has been devastating. This documentary explores the experiences of these women and their efforts to contact their children and gain recognition for past wrongs, while revealing the dramatic change in social values that has since occurred.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Big Island Pictures. Produced in association with the Pacifi c Film and Television Commission and SBS Independent

Finalist – MIFF Awards, India. Finalist – National Australian Cinematographers Society Awards

12 Current Affairs ABORTION, BIG BROTHER CORRUPTION OF CHRISTMAS AND COPS ISLAND THE BERTRAM WAINER STORY

1 x 52 minutes 1 x 55 minutes

Producers: John Moore, Sue Seeary Producers: Peter Du Cane, Samantha Kelley Writer/Director: John Moore Director: Mathew Kelley

In 1967 a young woman came to Dr Phosphate-rich Christmas Island rears out Bertram Wainer’s Melbourne surgery of the Indian Ocean only ten degrees south seeking emergency medical treatment after of the Equator. It was mined fi rst by the a backyard abortion. She was desperately British and then by the Australians. The British ill yet too afraid to go to hospital. For Wainer Phosphate Commission ran the Island like a this was the start of a long, hard struggle to Raj outpost, exploiting cheap Asian labour overturn laws that made abortion an offence and practising a form of apartheid. Gordon punishable by up to 15 years in jail. In the Bennett, a hard-drinking Englishman, came process he uncovered a web of corruption to the remote Australian territory in 1979 involving highly paid doctors, backyard to become General Secretary of the Union abortionists, high-ranking police and power- of Christmas Island Workers. Appalled at broking politicians. It would lead to attempts what he found, Bennett was determined to against his life and the fi rst major public enquiry dismantle the archaic and racist institutions into a state police force, as he fought to make on the island. The fi lm traces attempts to abortions accessible, affordable and safe. crush the tiny union and shut down the mine. By the time Bennett died in 1991, he A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with was known as ‘Tai Ko Seng’ which, roughly John Moore Productions. Developed and produced with the assistance of Film Victoria. Produced in association with SBS translated, means ‘big brother who delivers’. Independent. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Finalist – AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards. Finalist – MIFF Wildfi lm Australia Pty Ltd. Developed with the assistance of Awards India. Finalist – Best Documentary, Sydney Film ScreenWest. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Festival Dendy Awards Broadcasting Corporation.

Current Affairs 13 BLOOD THE EAST TIMOR FEARLESS BROTHERS DIPLOMAT BIRTH OF STORIES FROM A NATION ASIAN WOMEN

4 x 55 minutes 4 x 55 minutes 2 x 55 minutes 4 x 26 minutes

Executive Producer: Barbara Mariotti Producers: Sally Browning, Wilson da Silva Producers: Luigi Acquisto, Stella Zammataro, Producers: Ned Lander, Rachel Perkins, (Co-Producers), Geoffrey Barter (Associate Andrew Sully (Associate Producer) Jenny Day (Co-producer) Producer) Directors: Luigi Acquisto, Andrew Sully Directors: Ned Lander, Rachel Perkins, Director: Tom Zubrycki Trevor Graham

In this acclaimed series, four extraordinary For 24 years East Timor’s freedom fi ghter East Timor-Birth of a Nation looks at how a Fearless examines the experiences of four stories of Aboriginal Australia are told by and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos country is born, literally from the ashes, and women fi ghting for social justice. Each is producers/directors Ned Lander and Rachel Horta campaigned to secure independence how the East Timorese people are working to from a different culture and has her own Perkins. Blood Brothers documents and for his country, a Portuguese colony build a future. Each program in this two-part fascinating story to tell. All are united by their dramatises important Indigenous stories invaded by Indonesia in 1975. The Diplomat series tells the powerful personal story of a refusal to remain silent and accepting. These with a personal focus. It tells the stories of takes up Ramos Horta’s story in the fi nal remarkably resilient individual. In examining courageous and committed women are an outspoken civil rights leader, an infl uential dramatic stages of his long journey – the their experiences, the series explores the prepared to risk everything in pursuit of human musician and songwriter, a man sentenced fall of Indonesia’s President Suharto, the complex issues and diffi cult decisions that are rights. This compelling series examines the for a crime he says he didn’t commit and a referendum to determine East Timor’s future, involved in reconciling the past and creating a issues that incite them to action, their personal law man and elder who introduces us to his the overwhelming vote for independence, new and independent nation. motivations and their hopes for the future. community’s fi re ceremony. Through these the devastating carnage that ensued, the real-life experiences, the series examines intervention of United Nations peacekeepers, A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Abracadabra Film and Television Productions. Developed with with Mask Productions. Produced and developed with the the oppression, resistance and survival and Ramos Horta’s fi nal triumphant return to the assistance of Film Victoria. Produced with the assistance assistance of ScreenWest and the Lotteries Commission of the Aboriginal people and shows what his homeland. of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. of Western Australia. Produced in association with SBS Independent. Aboriginality – both contemporary and Winner – Real: Life on Film Documentary Film Festival. traditional – is all about A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Finalist – Best Documentary AFI Awards. Finalist National Invited to screen - Activating Human Rights Film Festival, with Emerald Films. Produced in association with SBS Australian Cinematographers’ Society Awards. Australia and FIPA: International Audiovisual Programmes Independent. Festival, France. Produced by City Pictures in association with SBS Indigenous Unit. Made with the participation of the Winner – Gold Medal, Human Relations – New York Australian Film Finance Corporation. Developed with Festivals. Winner – Rudolf Vrba Award – International Human the assistance of the NSW Film and Television Offi ce. Rights Film Festival. Winner – Golden Maile Award for Best Documentary – Hawaii International Film Festival. Finalist – FIPA: International Audiovisual Programmes Festival. Finalist – TV Week Logie Awards. Invited to Screen – Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival.

14 Current Affairs EXPLOSIVE THE PRICE BREAKING HEART ON DEVICES OF FREEDOM THE THE SLEEVE CASTE

1 x 26 minutes 1 x 26 minutes 1 x 26 minutes 1 x 26 minutes

Producers: Samantha Kelley, Peter Du Cane Producers: Samantha Kelley, Peter Du Cane Producers: Samantha Kelley, Peter Du Cane Producers: Samantha Kelley, Peter Du Cane Writer/Director: Mathew Kelley Writer/Directors: Peter Du Cane, Writer/Directors: Peter Du Cane, Writer/Director: Mathew Kelley Mathew Kelley Mathew Kelley

Growing up, Doris Nuval had a privileged life In 1994 a young poet from rural Bangladesh Fathima Burnad is fi ghting to change a Although Australia has a fi rst-world economy, in the Philippines. Her father was friend and plunged the country into a wave of general social structure that’s existed for 3000 years. hidden within it a third-world industry thrives. adviser to the president, Ferdinand Marcos. strikes and mass protest. Her crime: to In India, where the caste system has created Outworkers sewing at home are paid per But when Doris eventually discovered that write her thoughts about how religious apartheid-like discrimination, child labour is piece by clothing companies. They work the government was deeply corrupt, she fundamentalism has consigned women to common and women have few rights. Worst to unforgiving deadlines, often seven days became passionately involved in the political a secondary role in modern society. For her off are the 160 million people in the landless, a week, for a pitiful few dollars per hour. underground. At the age of 28, she planted a outspokenness, the nation’s religious leaders lowest caste – the Dalits or “untouchables” – Hundreds of thousands of workers from bomb designed to bring world attention to the issued a fatwa against her, literally putting a who live without access to basic necessities non-English speaking backgrounds suffer dictatorship. In this program, Doris refl ects on price on her head. This is the story of Taslima and are often targets of violence. Fathima’s in these archaic conditions. They have no her double-life as tourism offi cial and terrorist Nasrin, now living in exile in Sweden, and aim is to empower these people – her people sick pay, leave, superannuation or insurance. and describes her transformation from public how she continues to rail against the forces – by encouraging them to take action through Now, Hien Tran, former Vietnamese refugee enemy number one to public broadcaster. of oppression despite attempts to silence her. grass-roots organisations and rallying the turned union representative, is speaking up Her motivation, however, remains the same: support of international communities behind for her fellow outworkers, trapped by their an unyielding commitment to justice and A Film Australia National Interest Program in association her cause. circumstances and fi nancial need. with Mask Productions. Produced and developed with the equity for the Philippine people, no matter assistance of ScreenWest and the Lotteries Commission A Film Australia National Interest Program in association A Film Australia National Interest Program in association who is in power. of Western Australia. Produced in association with SBS with Mask Productions. Produced and developed with the Independent. with Mask Productions. Produced and developed with the assistance of ScreenWest and the Lotteries Commission assistance of ScreenWest and the Lotteries Commission A Film Australia National Interest Program in association of Western Australia. Produced in association with SBS with Mask Productions. Produced and developed with the Finalist – Hollywood Film Discovery Award – Hollywood of Western Australia. Produced in association with SBS Documentary Film Festival, USA. Invited to screen – Hawaii Independent. assistance of ScreenWest and the Lotteries Commission Independent. International Film Festival, USA. Fringe Section – Singapore of Western Australia. Produced in association with SBS International Film Festival Finalist – Hollywood Film Discovery Award – Hollywood Invited to screen – Global Visions Festival, Canada Independent. Documentary Film Festival, USA. Invited to screen – Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia Finalist – Hollywood Film Discovery Award – Hollywood Documentary Film Festival, USA. Invited to screen – Hawaii International Film Festival, USA. Global Visions Festival, Canada. Fringe Section – Singapore International Film Festival.

Current Affairs 15 LAND OF NO SEX, ORDINARY POLICING THE MORNING NO VIOLENCE, PEOPLE THE PACIFIC STAR NO NEWS

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Producer: Janet Bell Producers/ Writers/Directors: Producer: Martha Ansara, Jennifer Rutherford Series Producer: Chris Hilton Writer/Director: Mark Worth Susan Lambert, Stefan Moore (Co-Producer), Denise Haslem (Consultant Producer: Nial Fulton Producer) Directors: Alan Erson, Andrew Merrifi eld, Writer/Director: Jennifer Rutherford Stephen Oliver

The western half of the island of New Guinea Goes behind the scenes of the battle for Far right and anti-immigration politics are on Australian Federal Police fi nd adventure and has been known by many names including control of China’s airwaves. Following the rise worldwide. In many western countries, challenge as they join the multinational police Netherlands New Guinea, West Papua, Irian producers, distributors, satellite moguls, a new political force is drawing on the force known as the Regional Assistance Jaya and Papua. Narrated by Rachel Griffi ths, advertising people and a widely respected discontent of those who feel excluded from Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) and Land of the Morning Star reveals the rich and observer of Chinese society, the fi lm looks at the promised benefi ts of globalisation. Follow embark on a tour of duty to East Timor. This turbulent history of a troubled country, swept how business is conducted in a bizarre world One Nation candidate Colene Hughes over series follows several Agents deployed to up in the power-play of international politics. where offi cial party propaganda merges with two years and two elections as her idealistic the Solomon Islands, where they patrol the It highlights the role of the Netherlands, the Hollywood and MTV. As the world is encircled fervour slowly turns to disillusionment. Initially streets of the capital Honiara, the remote and United States, Australia, Indonesia and the UN by multiplying webs of electronic signals, it for Colene and her supporters, One Nation dangerous Weather Coast and outer islands at crucial points in the country’s history. And, explores the agendas of those who control seems to offer true democracy and a way that rarely, if ever, see law enforcement. In the by providing a background to this complex the new information technologies. of knocking Australia back into shape. But fi nal episode we are reacquainted with Agent story, helps us understand this extraordinarily when Colene starts to question the control Dave Elson who makes a tour of duty to Dili in beautiful but strangely forgotten land. A Film Australia National Interest Program. of party leaders, the gloves come off and, at East Timor after recent unrest. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. the party’s annual general meeting, the two A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with forces collide. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Silver Plaque – Social/Political Documentary – Chicago with Essential Viewing. Produced in association with SBS International Film Festival. Finalist – Social Issues Independent Documentary – MediaNet Awards. Sheffi eld International A Film Australia National Interest Program produced with Documentary Festival the assistance of the Australian Film Commission, the NSW Film and Television Offi ce and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Highly Commended (Documentary Category) – Dendy Awards.

16 Current Affairs THE ROSA’S THE TRAFFICKED POST JOURNEY SAFE HOUSE

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Producer: Helen Barrow Producers: Stella Zammataro, Luigi Acquisto Producer: Denise Haslem Producers: Stella Zammataro, Luigi Acquisto Writer/Director: Hugh Piper Writer/Director: Luigi Acquisto Writer/Director: Lee Whitmore Director: Luigi Acquisto

The Post looks at Cambodia through the Seven years after East Timor’s independence, It’s the summer of 1954 and seven-year-old This powerful documentary follows former eyes of a small group of journalists working young widow Rosa Martins is still struggling Lee Whitmore and her friends are drifting police offi cer Chris Payne, as he investigates on the Phnom Penh Post, an independent to support her children, while former First through the holidays, exploring their quiet the shocking crime of traffi cking for English language newspaper which has Lady, Australian-born Kirsty Sword Gusmao suburban neighbourhood where nothing ever prostitution. For a decade, he’s been haunted chronicled the country’s recent turbulent is set to take on a new role as the Prime seems to happen... until the day mysterious by the case of “Nikkie”, a young Thai girl history. Following the turmoil in the aftermath Minister’s wife. The years following nationhood strangers move in with the old lady next door. who was deported after she was discovered of the country’s second democratic elections have been hard for East Timor – freedom No one explains the odd comings and goings, working in a Sydney brothel. How did she we see Cambodian society through the and democracy have not yet translated into the big black cars, the men in suits and hats, get there? What happened to her afterwards? perspectives of both the expatriate and calm and prosperity. Through the eyes of the overheard snippets of conversation, but Payne follows the trail of evidence to Thailand. Khmer reporters. Their contrasting views these remarkable women we travel the rocky that doesn’t stop the children from imagining. Along the way, he meets the parents of bring new layers of insight, passion and road to democracy in one of the world’s The Safe House is a half-hour animation another Thai “sex slave” whose death in an sometimes humour to one of the greatest youngest nations. based on a true story – a young girl’s innocent immigration detention centre in Sydney made national dramas of our time. perspective of one of the most talked about headlines. Through these stories, Traffi cked A Film Australia National Interest Program in association moments in Australia’s history – the real-life provides a disturbing insight into with Abracadabra Films. Produced in association with SBS A Film Australia National Interest Program in association spy drama known as the Petrov Affair. the international sex trade. with Evershine Pty Ltd. Produced with the assistance of Independent. the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia National Interest Program. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Certifi cate of Honourable Mention – Columbus International Produced in association with SBS Independent with Abracadabra Films. Developed with the assistance Film & Video Festival of the Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria. Finalist – Banff World Television Festival. Winner – Sydney Produced in association with SBS Independent. Film Festival Dendy Awards. Finalist – Anima Mundi – International Animation Festival of Brazil. Finalist – Animadrid, Finalist – MIFF Awards, India Spain. Finalist – I Castelli Animati – International Animated Film Festival, Italy. Finalist – Cartoons on the Bay, Italy. Special Program – Hiroshima International Animation Festival. Finalist – AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards. Finalist – IF Inside Film Awards, Australia. Finalist – Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Winner – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards

Current Affairs 17 MAWSON LIFE AND DEATH IN ANTARCTICA

1 x 85 minutes – NEW / HIGH DEFINITION

Producer: Richard Dennison, Perry Stapleton (Line Producer) Writer/Director: Malcolm McDonald

The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, adventurer Tim Jarvis retraces the gruelling experience, with similar meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically – and mentally – as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.

A Film Australia Making History Production in association with Orana Films. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Channel 4.

18 History AIR BOMBORA AUSTRALIA THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN SURFING

3 x 55 minutes 2 x 55 minutes – NEW / HIGH DEFINITION

Producers: Alan Lindsay, Helen Clucas, Producers: Paul Clarke, Greg Appel, Perry Tony Virgo (Associate Producer) Stapleton (Line Producer) Writer/Director: Alan Lindsay Directors: Paul Clarke, Greg Appel Writers: Paul Clarke, Greg Appel, Nick Carroll

Australia’s aviation history is a saga of daring From bodysurfi ng in the 1890s to today’s feats, can-do attitude, pig-headed visionaries, billion-dollar surfwear industry, this two-part iron-fi sted politicians and warring pilots; of series looks at how Australia’s love affair with humble beginnings and mega deals. The story the sea lies at the heart of our national culture. begins in World War One with the bold young airmen who would later establish the country’s A Screen Australia/Bombora Film and Music production. Developed and produced in association with the Australian fi rst airlines, in diffi cult conditions, marred by Broadcasting Corporation, Commissioning Editor Alan Erson. accidents and fatalities, but highlighted by A National Interest Program. ground-breaking fl ights. Behind the scenes, however, battles were fought in boardrooms and with backers and bureaucrats to keep the airlines aloft. Then businessmen replaced aviators at the helm of the companies, and take-overs rather than take-offs became front- page news.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Vue DC. Produced with the assistance of ScreenWest, Lotterywest and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Winner – SA & WA Australian Cinematographers Society Awards. Finalist – Australian Directors Guild Awards. Finalist – AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards

History 19 CAPTAIN COOK CITY COLOUR CONSTRUCTING OBSESSION OF DREAMS OF WAR AUSTRALIA AND DISCOVERY THE ANZACS

4 x 53 minutes – NEW / HIGH DEFINITION 1 x 55 minutes 3 x 45 minutes 3 x 55 minutes

Executive Producers: Mark Hamlyn, Stephen Producer: Gaby Mason Producers: Paul Rudd (Series Producer), Amezdroz, Pat Ferns and John Barnett Director: Belinda Mason Anita Sheehan (Producer), Sally Regan Producers: Tony Wright (Prod.), Andrew Ferns (Co-producer) (Prod. Canada), Paul Rudd (Series Producer) Writer/Directors: Paul Rudd, Ben Ulm Writers/Directors: Wain Fimeri, Paul Rudd, Matthew Thomason It’s high adventure, triumph and tragedy as When Marion Mahony, the brilliant and fi ery This is the story of Australia and New Zealand Politics, tragedy and conquest combine we journey around the world in the wake American who became the world’s fi rst at war as never seen before. For the fi rst time, in stories behind the building of Australia. of one of the greatest explorers of all time registered female architect and the longest only original colour footage is used to paint a The Bridge, Pipe Dreams and A Wire – James Cook. A hero to some, a curse to serving designer in Frank Lloyd Wright’s vividly detailed picture of these closely allied Through the Heart combine rare archival others, this son of an English farm labourer practice, married Walter Burley Griffi n, it was nations, from the build up to World War Two images with dramatic storytelling in described more of the globe than any other the beginning of one of the most outstanding to the end of the Vietnam confl ict. Newly showcasing three landmark events that man in three incredible voyages. Geographer, artistic collaborations of the 20th century. discovered fi lms and home movies along with would allow Australia to mark its place in historical consultant and bestselling author This fascinating documentary explores diary and letter extracts allow viewers a very the world. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man their unconventional approach to life and personal connection with the war experience, the Kalgoorlie Pipeline and the Overland behind the legend as she traces his story in architecture. both on the battlefi eld and on the homefront. Telegraph line were engineering triumphs, a series that is part biography, part travelogue In colour, that shared history becomes even but the human drama in constructing – and completely enthralling. A Film Australia National Interest Program. more intimate and involving. Narrated by them is even more fascinating. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Russell Crowe, this powerful and moving A Film Australia National Interest Program. A Cook Films, three-part series captures the thoughts and Ferns Productions, South Pacifi c Pictures and December Winner – Gold Hugo, Chicago International Television Films production. Produced with the assistance of New Competition TV Festival. Finalist ATOM Awards. Finalist feelings of ordinary people caught up in world- Zealand On Air, the Canadian Television Fund and Film AFI Awards. Finalist – NSW Premier’s History Awards. shattering events. Victoria, in association with History Television, ZDF in co-operation with ARTE and the Australian Broadcasting A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Corporation. An Australia – Canada Co-production. TWI, Nine Network Australia, ScreenSound Australia, NZ on Readers Choice Award – Sydney Morning Herald Couch Air, TVNZ and the New Zealand Ministry of Defence. Potato Awards. Finalist – Most Outstanding Documentary, Winner – Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards TV Week Logie Awards. Finalist – Leo Awards, Canada

Australian/New Zealand Pay Television rights available only

20 History THE PIPE A WIRE DARWIN’S BRIDGE DREAMS THROUGH BRAVE NEW THE HEART WORLD

1 x 55 minutes – HIGH DEFINITION 1 x 55 minutes 1 x 55 minutes 3 x 55 minutes – NEW / HIGH DEFINITION

Producers: Simon Nasht, Renee Kennedy Producers: Julia Redwood, Ed Punchard Producers: Mike Piper, Simon Nasht, Executive Producers: Mark Hamlyn Writer/Director: Simon Nasht Director: Franco di Chiera Corey Piper (Film Australia), Sue Clothier (Australia), Director: Darcy Yuille W. Patterson Ferns (Canada) Producers: Mike Bleutt (Series), Sally Regan (Australia), Andrew Ferns (Canada) Director: Lisa Matthews Writer: Katherine Thomson Massive, majestic, breathtaking – the Sydney In the late 1800s two men shared a vision for The epic struggle to open a vast continent Join us on a grand adventure to explore Harbour Bridge was the greatest engineering opening up Western Australia by constructing and build one of the 19th century’s greatest the role the Southern Hemisphere played in challenge of its day anywhere on earth. an immense water pipeline through the desert engineering triumphs. This fi lm follows shaping Charles Darwin’s theories. Completed during the Great Depression, it is from the coast that would unlock potentially Scotsman, John McDouall Stuart’s incredible the legacy of a fateful partnership between lucrative goldfi elds 500 kilometres inland. crossing of Australia’s inhospitable red- A Screen Australia National Interest Program in association with Cook Films, Beckers Group and Ferns Productions. two very different men – a brilliant engineer centre, which enabled a telegraph line to Produced with the assistance of the Canadian Television and a maverick politician – who shared a Produced with the assistance of ScreenWest and be constructed through the heart of the Fund and in association with the Australian Broadcasting Lotterywest. Developed and produced in association with the Corporation. An Australian – Canada Co-production. relentless ambition to create “the people’s Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia Making continent, bringing Australia to the world bridge”. Today, it is impossible to imagine History Production in association with Prospero Productions. and the world to Australia. Its construction

Sydney, and Australia, without it, this is the Finalist – Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards. heralded the start of a new communications epic and defi nitive story behind the building of Winner – Gold Award – SA & WA State Australian era every bit as revolutionary as the internet Cinematographers Society Awards the bridge and the vision of those who made and enabled news from overseas to arrive in it happen. hours rather than months.

Developed with the assistance of the New South Wales Film Developed with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting and Television Offi ce. Produced with the assistance of the Corporation and the BBC. Produced with the assistance of Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia Making the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia History Production in association with Real Pictures. Making History Production in association with Piper Films and the South Australian Film Corporation. Winner – Most Outstanding Documentary – TV Week Logie Awards, Australia. Winner AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild) Winner – Silver Award – SA & WA State Australian Awards Cinematographers Society Awards

History 21

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Producers: Kate Latimer, Cristina Pozzan Executive Producers: Mark Hamlyn (Film Producer: Adrienne Parr Producer: Peter Butt (Co-Producer), Rob Director: Sue Thomson Australia), Chris Hilton (Essential Viewing) Director: Raymond Quint McAuley (Co-Producer) Producer: Sonja Armstrong Writer/Director:Peter Butt Writer/Director: Mark Lewis

For a century, the Davis Cup has been one Three women uncover the rags-to- Between 1946 and 1952, the British Fortress Australia uncovers one of the most of the world’s greatest tennis competitions. respectability tale of their ancestors – the feisty Commonwealth Occupation Force had extraordinary chapters in our history – the Despite the lure of big money on the convicts who became the unlikely founding the job of policing the starving population of brazen attempt by successive governments to professional circuit, the cup continues to mothers of modern Australia. In 1789, the Hiroshima and destroying the vast Japanese fortress the nation with atomic weapons. This stand for sportsmanship, team spirit and fl edgling penal settlement in Sydney was war-machine. Rare footage, photos and groundbreaking fi lm reveals a web of intrigue national pride. Giving us heroes like Norman battling to survive, but help would come from eyewitness accounts vividly recreate the as it penetrates a murky world of diplomatic Brookes, Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad, Neale a most unlikely quarter. This is the rip-roaring atmosphere of post-war Japan and the double-dealing and atomic espionage. Set Fraser, Rod Laver, John Newcombe and tale of The Lady Juliana and the boatload situation where two former enemies must against a backdrop of cold war paranoia Patrick Rafter. of streetgirls, thieves and con-women who meet face to face. The program also reveals and fear of Asian aggression, it explores the sailed to the ends of the earth to breathe life how many veterans fear they too may motives of the politicians, defence chiefs and A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with and a sense of enterprise into a dying colony. be victims of atomic radiation and how scientists who set out to buy, then ultimately Media Giants and ScreenSound Australia. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Together they would give Australia something successive governments have overlooked build, a nuclear arsenal. much more – a future. the contribution of the 36,000 Australians Finalist – AWGIE Awards who served in the force. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the A Film Australia/Essential Viewing Production. Produced in assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. association with the NSW Film and Television Offi ce and with A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. the assistance of The Japan Foundation and the Australian Hors Concours – Banff World Television Festival. Winner – Broadcasting Corporation. US International Film and Video Festival. Finalist – TV Week Logie Awards. Finalist – Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards. Honourable Mention – Sydney Morning Herald Couch Potato Awards. Finalist ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards. Winner – Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. Winner – VIC & TAS State Australian Cinematographers Society Awards. Finalist – Pacifi c International Documentary Film Festival

22 History THE HUNT INFAMOUS LOST IN MENZIES FOR HMAS VICTORY FLANDERS AND CHURCHILL SYDNEY BEN CHIFLEY’S AT WAR BATTLE FOR COAL

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Producers: Andrew Ogilvie (Executive Producer: Perry Stapleton Producer: Stuart Scowcroft Producer: John Moore, Lisa Horler Producer Electric Pictures), Andrea Quesnelle Director: Geoff Burton Director: Geoff Burton (Line Producer) (Producer) Andrew Ogilvie (Producer) Director: Steve Jodrell Directors: Mathew Kelley, Rob McAuley (Supervising Director)

Follow the world’s top shipwreck hunter, A dramatised documentary that explores War historian Matt McLachlan and In 1941, Australian Prime Minister Robert David Mearns, as he makes history by fi nding why Ben Chifl ey, arguably one of Australia’s archaeologist Michael Molkentin discover the Menzies made an ill-fated trip to London the HMAS Sydney II, solving one of Australia’s best loved prime ministers, made the reality of life in the trenches as they unravel to persuade the UK to support the defence most tragic and enduring mysteries. The extraordinary decision to turn the Army on the story of fi ve young soldiers who died on of Australia and back an Allied force in Hunt for HMAS Sydney gives an eyewitness its own citizens in an attempt to break the the Western Front 90 years ago. Singapore. Drawing on Menzies’ own fi lms, account of the quest to fi nd the Sydney 1949 coal miners’ strike. diaries and testimony, this dramatised and its crew of 645 sailors, ending 66 years A Film Australia Program in association with Intomedia. documentary charts his failed attempts Developed with the assistance of the New South Wales Film of speculation and anguish. It follows an A Film Australia Making History Program. Produced with to bring British military aid to the far east. the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. and Television Offi ce and the Australian Film Commission. unprecedented multi-million dollar search Developed and Produced in association with the Australian It investigates the massive impact of this and reveals its extraordinary history: a deadly Broadcasting Corporation. on Menzies personally and politically, on World War II encounter on the high seas, a Australia’s relations with the wider world secret code hidden inside a dictionary and and on the development of the country a mysterious body found in an island grave. during and after World War Two.

A Film Australia/Electric Pictures Production. Produced in A Film Australia Making History Production in association association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, with 360 Degree Films. Produced with the assistance of Film ScreenWest and Lotterywest. A Film Australia National Victoria. Developed and produced in association with the Interest Program. Australia Broadcasting Corporation.

History 23 MONASH NIAGARA’S OPERATION THE PRIME THE FORGOTTEN GOLD BABYLIFT MINISTER IS ANZAC MISSING

1 x 56 minutes – NEW / HIGH DEFINITION 1 x 47 minutes 1 x 55 minutes 1 x 55 minutes – NEW

Producer: John Moore, Lisa Horler (Line Producers: Zoe Hebdon, Jeff Maynard Producer: Helen Barrow Producer: Peter Butt, Sally Regan Producer) Director: Paul Murphy Writer/Director: Dai Le (Co-producer) Director: Malcolm McDonald Writer: Jeff Maynard Writer/Director: Peter Butt

Labelled by many as the most brilliant This is the epic story of the greatest gold In April 1975, in the closing days of the With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, general of the First World War, John Monash salvage in history, narrated by renowned Vietnam War, more than 3000 babies Prime Minister Harold Holt suddenly began his military career in the Australian actor, Sam Neill. In 1940, the Bank of were airlifted from Saigon orphanages and disappeared without a trace – an event Imperial Force in 1914 as a middle-aged, England tried to ship eight tons of gold to delivered into the arms of waiting couples in unparalleled in the history of western overweight citizen soldier. Obsessive, America to buy arms for Britain. The ship, the US, Canada, Britain, Europe and Australia. democracy. The nation was in shock and meticulous and vain, he was everything his the RMS Niagara, hit a German mine and It was the largest act of adoption in history. disbelief at the shattering news. Four decades Diggers were not. But it was exactly these sank off New Zealand. Its salvage was Some people saw Operation Babylift as after Holt’s bizarre disappearance at Cheviot characteristics that would enable him to lead arranged by one man, who invented a way a humanitarian act, others as kidnapping. Beach, a coronial inquiry confi rmed that he the Anzacs to victory on the Western Front. of working 600 feet underwater, assembled Thirty years on, this emotionally powerful had accidentally drowned. But many suspect He used his engineering and management a motley crew, refl oated a rusty ship and documentary tells the stories of three of that there was more to his disappearance skills to break through the German defences sailed into the middle of the minefi eld to those children. Through candid interviews this than has ever been revealed. Reconstructed without suffering horrendous casualties. search for the Niagara. The fi lm includes fi lm explores complex issues of inter-racial from eyewitness accounts, this dramatised When Monash returned to Australia his original footage shot during the salvage by adoption and cultural identity, and provides documentary investigates all aspects of battles continued as he fought to ensure American cinematographer J.M. Leonard. an insight into the political background behind the mysterious case and reveals the Prime that the sacrifi ces of his men were enshrined this controversial operation. Minister’s secret world in the months before in Australian history. In doing so he helped Bacon Town Films his disappearance, a world of betrayal, create the Anzac legend. A Film Australia National Interest Program. blackmail and political treachery. Do gaps Produced in association with SBS Independent. in the police investigation and recently A Film Australia Making History Production in association with 360 Degree Films. Produced with the assistance of Finalist – MIFF Awards, India discovered classifi ed documents suggest Film Victoria. Developed and produced in association with an answer? the Australia Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia Making History Production in association with Blackwattle Films. Developed and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

24 History RETURN ROAD ROGUE THOMSON TO SANDAKAN TO TOKYO NATION OF ARNHEM LAND

1 x 55 minutes 1 x 56 minutes 2 x 56 minutes – NEW 1 x 55 minutes

Producer/Director: Raymond Quint Producer: Sally Regan Executive Producers: Mark Hamlyn (Film Producers: John Moore, Michael McMahon Writers: Raymond Quint, Julian Leatherdale Writer/Director: Graham Shirley Australia), Chris Hilton (Essential Viewing) Director: John Moore Producer: Ian Collie, Kerry Mainwaring (Line Producer) Directors: Lisa Matthews, Pete Andrikidis

Return to Sandakan examines the personal By late 1944, the worst of World War Two Enslaved by their captors and cast out into In the 1930s tensions between the government impact today of one of the most horrifi c appears to be over. But the confl ict in the an alien, already occupied land, how was it and the Indigenous peoples of Australia’s north events of the Pacifi c war – the tragedy of the Pacifi c is about to hot up and it will be a long that a tiny fl eet of illiterate, brutalised, half- were on a knife-edge. Donald Thomson, an Sandakan POW camp in North Borneo – on road to Tokyo for the Allies... Combining starved mudlarks, bludgeon men, scuffl e- anthropologist, volunteered to go to Arnhem the lives of the survivors and their families interviews and vivid archival footage, this is hunters, cutpurses, coin-clippers, roaring Land to make peace. For over two years, he and the families of those who died. It tells its an eyewitness account of an often forgotten girls and other rogues built a new society? lived with the Aboriginal people, forging strong story from many points of view – Australian, episode in history, providing a social context Certainly no-one planned it that way. Against bonds, learning and recording their way of life. His Japanese, Taiwanese and Malaysian – and as well as a military overview of the titanic all expectations, in only a few generations, report to the government outlined a vision of land looks at how such an event is remembered struggle to defeat Japan. For Australia, it Australia went from being a terrifying penal rights and other measures to protect a unique by individuals and as part of the collective is signposted with some of the bloodiest colony to one of the richest places on earth. yet fragile culture – it was ignored. Ostracised memory of nations. campaigns and most appalling events of the People from across Europe, America and by politicians and fellow academics, Thomson war – and the memory of 8031 POWs who Asia fl ocked to this new society with its never gave up the struggle for Aboriginal rights. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Made with would never come home. distinct identity and radical new institutions. Now, his extraordinary photographs, fi eld notes assistance from the Japan Foundation. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This is the often tragic, sometimes brutal, and artefacts are considered one of the most A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with and always remarkable story of how modern signifi cant ethnographic collections in the world. Finalist – Best Social Issues Documentary – ATOM Awards. the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Finalist – Best International Documentary under 60 mins Australia was created and the intriguing and – Hot Docs! Canada. 3rd place “Certifi cate For Creative unlikely cast of ordinary men and women A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Excellence” – US International Film and Video Festival. with John Moore Productions Pty Ltd. Produced with the Shanghai Television Festival who made it happen. assistance of Cinemedia’s Film Victoria and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Producer’s attachment supported A Film Australia Making History production in association with by Film Victoria. Developed with the assistance of Film Essential Viewing. Produced in association with the Australian Victoria and Museum Victoria. Broadcasting Corporation. Finalist – Rockie Awards, Banff Television Festival, Winner – Best Editing in a Non-Feature Film, AFI Awards. Finalist – Shanghai Television Festival – Magnolia Awards. Commendation – Advancement of Aboriginal Reconciliation, United Nations Association of Australia: Media Peace Awards. Commendation – American Anthropological Association Conference Film Festival

History 25 RARE CHICKEN RESCUE

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Executive Producers: Mark Hamlyn (Film Australia), Trish Lake (Freshwater Productions) Producer: Vickie Gest Writer/Director: Randall Wood

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1350 domestic mammal and bird breeds face extinction. Rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is on a mission to protect these endangered chickens. One of Australia’s many “poultry fanciers”, Tully embarks on a “chicken chase” that covers 10,000 kilometres as he tracks down rare heritage breeds and meets others who share his passion. While Tully spends his days rescuing poultry, he reveals that the unconditional love of his large collection of turkeys, chooks and other birds – and the serenity he fi nds in their company – has helped save his own life after a long battle with depression.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Freshwater Productions. Produced in association with the Pacifi c Film and Television Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Winner – Best Documentary, Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards, Finalist – Animal Planet International People and Animals Award, Wildscreen – International Wildlife and Environmental Film Festival, UK

26 Natural History BOBTALES CANE TOADS FERAL A MILLION AN UNNATURAL PERIL ACRES HISTORY A YEAR

13 x 5 minutes 1 x 47 minutes 1 x 55 minutes– NEW / HIGH DEFINITION 1 x 51 minutes

Producer: Patricia Evans Writer/Director: Mark Lewis Producers: Ian Walker, Gina Twyble Producers: Frank Rijavec, Noelene Harrison Director: Todd Williams Director: Andrew Sully Director: Frank Rijavec Writers: Keith Bradby, Frank Rijavec

These enchanting fi ve-minute tales bring to The cane toad was imported from Hawaii in The island state of Tasmania is one of The southwest of Western Australia is one life stories of how some of Australia’s native 1935 to save Queensland’s sugar crop from the world’s last great wildlife havens but of the world’s most biodiverse areas. But in animals came to look the way they do, and the grey-back beetle. It failed because the its native species are under threat from the last 50 years it has been the scene of why the moon and the stars appear in the beetle could fl y and the cane toad couldn’t. a feral fox invasion. environmental destruction on a massive scale. sky. Presented by Aboriginal storytellers, these But the cane toad stayed to become a pest Successive governments have sold off and beautifully illustrated stories use dynamic of plague proportions and part of local culture A Screen Australia, Commissioned Production/Magic encouraged the clearing of millions of acres Real Picture Company production in association with computer animation based on drawings by and popular mythology. This off-beat and Screen Tasmania. Made in association with the Australian for agriculture. The long-term consequences Aboriginal children from Western Australia to entertaining documentary presents not just Broadcasting Corporation, Commissioning Editor Alan have been devastating: severe erosion and tell traditional legends in an imaginative and the biological information, but the surprising Erson. A National Interest Program. salinity, the shattering of this priceless natural colourful way. range of people’s attitudes to these grotesque heritage and economic ruin for many farming creatures, including keeping them as pets. families. Through the voices of people on the Gripping Films and Graphics and The Western Australia land, this compelling documentary tracks the Aboriginal Media Association. Produced with the assistance A Film Australia Production of SBS Independent for Creative Nation. Produced history of this ecological disaster and reveals in association with the Australian Film Commission, Winner – Jury Prize, Wildscreen. Winner – Best Film, the impact it has had on them, the landscape ScreenWest, the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia San Francisco International Film Festival. Winner – Best and Australia’s unique fl ora and fauna. It and SBS Independent. Documentary, AFI Awards. Winner – Best Documentary, Australian Television Awards for Excellence. Silver Medal also looks at their attempts to turn around Ecology – Prix Leonardo Film & Television Festival. Cinéma Du Réel. International Documentary Filmfestival decades of gross mismanagement and Amsterdam (IDFA). Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. outlines a case for a “land ethic”. Shanghai Documentary Film Festival. Sheffi eld International Documentary Festival Produced by Snakewood Films in association with SBS Independent. Developed with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission. Financed with the assistance of the Australian Film Finance Corporation.

Natural History 27 MUDDY MUTTABURR- REEF REMEMBERING WATERS ASAURUS ROUTE 66 RAIN LIFE AND DEATH ON THE THE COLOUR GREAT BARRIER REEF CYCLE

1 x 52 minutes 1 x 12 minutes 1 x 27 minutes 1 x 55 minutes

Producers: Tony Wright, Stuart Menzies, Producer: David Roberts Producer/Director/Writer: Matt Tomaszewski Producers: Megan McMurchy, Mandy Chang Sally Ingleton (Co-Producer) Writers/Directors: Graham Binding, Director: Mandy Chang Writer/Director: Sally Ingleton Norman Yeend

The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Global 100 million years ago a unique species of One night a year, the corals of Australia’s In the face of the worst drought on record, warming and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns dinosaur, the Muttaburrasaurus, inhabited Great Barrier Reef explode into the rural Australians are being forced to question starfi sh have put extraordinary pressure on the vast continent of Gondwanaland. With largest mass breeding event on the the very viability of farming in the driest the coral. Now scientists have identifi ed detailed models and superb animation, planet. Reef Route 66 is the investigative inhabited continent on earth. Beautifully another threat – agricultural run-off. this fi lm follows the adventures of a young journey of a young environmental scientist photographed, in turns funny and moving, Sugarcane farmers are reeling at the prospect Muttaburrasaurus when it becomes separated (Matt Tomaszewski) and a slightly mad this is an iconic portrait of a land and a that their land management practices may from its mother. We see the behaviour and cameraman (Emmy Award winning marine character shaped by drought. be part of the problem. Muddy Waters is habitat of the Muttaburrasaurus and the other cinematographer David Hannan) as they set the story of a small community facing the animals, reptiles and dinosaurs of its time. out to record this amazing phenomenon – A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the assistance of the Australian challenges of responsibility and change. It one of the most spectacular in the undersea Broadcasting Corporation. asks what’s killing the reef and can anything A Film Australia National Interest Program kingdom and the keystone in the cycle of life Finalist – Ecofi lms – Rodos International Film & Visual Arts be done to save one of the world’s greatest for the entire reef. The result is part natural Festival, Greece. Finalist – Mediterranean Environmental natural treasures? history documentary, part road-trip, part Award, Turkey. Winner – SA/WA/NT Australian Cinematographers Society Awards travelogue – mixing brains with boardshorts, A Film Australia National Interest Program in association stunning footage with fascinating science. with December Films. Developed with the assistance of the Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria. Produced in association with SBS Independent. Produced by Triton Media

Winner – Special Jury Prize, Earth Vision – Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival. Winner – Environment/ Conservation Award, Japan Wildlife Film Festival. Shortlisted – British Environment and Media Awards. Finalist – Festival International du Film Nature & Environnement. Finalist – International Scientifi c Film Festival

28 Natural History SLOW FOOD THE STORY TEN MILLION WHERE THE REVOLUTION OF ROSY DOCK WILDCATS FOREST MEETS THE SEA

1 x 52 minutes 1 x 10 minutes 1 x 50 minutes 1 x 9 minutes

Producer: Carmelo Musca Associate Producer: Julie Cottrell-Dormer Producers: Gary Steer, Tina Dalton-Hagege Producer: Don Ezard Director: Carlo Buralli Writer/Director: Jeannie Baker Directors: Gary Steer, Alice Ford Director: Jeannie Baker

Speed – the obsession of the modern This animated short deals with the seemingly It is estimated that there are now ten million Using relief collage animation, artist world – is determining what people should harmless practice of importing foreign fl ora. feral cats in Australia and that each year Jeannie Baker has created a beautiful eat and how. Traditional foods are at risk It tells the story of an elderly woman who they kill billions of native animals. With their short fi lm depicting the wilderness area of disappearing forever. An international ventures out into the Australian desert to set remarkable survival skills, they are thriving between the Daintree River and Bloomfi eld eco-gastronomic movement known as Slow up her home. In her attempt to recreate the in some of the country’s harshest regions. in North Queensland, as seen through the Food champions the protection of traditional beauty of the home she has left she does not Where did they come from? Why did they eyes of a child. As he wanders through culture, the environment and biodiversity realise the beauty that is already there – or the spread so quickly? And how much of a role coastal rainforest, he marvels at its ancient while encouraging regional production, consequences of her actions. Internationally have they really had in the destruction of the magnifi cence and, without speaking a food education and pleasure. Slow Food acclaimed children’s book author and artist country’s unique wildlife? word, ponders the future of the area. Revolution travels around the globe recording Jeannie Baker uses a unique collage art form this growing phenomenon. Beautifully to recreate in remarkable detail the textures and A Film Australia National Interest Program in association A Film Australia National Interest Program. with Wild Visuals for Discovery Channel. Produced with the photographed, it is a celebration of our colours of the central Australian landscape. assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. natural bounty – a seriously sensual journey A Film Australia National Interest Program Winner : Certifi cate for Creative Excellence – US International from earth to table. Film and Video Festival. Finalist – Festival International du Film Animalier d’Albert. Finalist – International Wildlife Film A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Festival. Finalist – Scinema with CM Film Productions. Developed with the assistance of Film Victoria. Produced with the assistance of ScreenWest and the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia. Produced in association with SBS Independent.

Finalist – Ecocinema International Film Festival, Greece

Natural History 29 I’LL CALL AUSTRALIA HOME

1 x 52 minutes – NEW

Producers: Mike Bluett, Sue Clothier Director: Belinda Mason

Refugee families from Burma and Sudan discover the joys and challenges of their new Australian home. While the horrors of war and the confi nement of refugee camps are behind them, the new lives of these families are not without struggle as they negotiate the everyday realities of settling in a new country.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Becker Entertainment. Produced in association with SBS Independent.

30 People & Society AUTO BLACK BUSH STORIES HARVEST MECHANICS THE SERIES

4 x 26 minutes 1 x 90 minutes 4 x 26 minutes

Producers: Tony Wright, Stuart Menzies Producers/Directors: Bob Connolly, Producer: Jeni McMahon Directors: Steve Westh, Helen Gaynor, Robin Anderson Director: David Batty (Director), Catherine Marciniak, Fiona Hergstrom Francis Jupurrula Kelly (Co-Director)

For some, the motor car is a functional and Against the turbulent and spectacular This off-beat series follows the exploits of practical machine – for others it is almost backdrop of the highlands of Papua New the Bush Mechanics, a group of engaging human. Auto Stories is a character-driven Guinea, Joe Leahy, a mixed race highlander characters who travel through central series exploring our sometimes obsessive and wealthy coffee plantation owner, joins Australia. In each episode, the fi ve Bush relationship with the car. In a land where there forces with the Ganiga tribe to expand his Mechanics are presented with new challenges is a car on the roads for nearly every man, operations. His greatest ally is the tribal leader as they set off in their clapped-out motorcar. woman and child, solving traffi c problems Popina Mai, a superior warrior and orator, Along the way, they manage to solve multiple can be a perpetual nightmare – and at what who wants to take his people into the modern car problems with wacky and inventive bush cost to the environment? No one is immune world quickly. But a power struggle erupts. repair techniques. Combining adventure, from the pleasures and dangers of the car. Coffee-picking buckets, the work ethic and the magic realism and a distinctive brand of Everyone has an auto story to tell. promise of wealth are quickly abandoned for Indigenous humour, the series provides an spears, bows and arrows, guns and chanting. insight into both contemporary and traditional A Film Australia National Interest Program in Aboriginal culture. association with December Films Pty Ltd. Produced Arundel Productions. Produced with the assistance of the with the assistance of Cinemedia’s Film Victoria and Australian Film Commission and in association with the the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Australian Broadcasting Corporation, La Sept (France), Channel with Warlpiri Media Association Inc. Produced with the Finalist – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards 4 Television (UK), and the Institute of Papua New Guinea. assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Winner – Special Jury Award and Audience Award for Best Winner – Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. Film, International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA). Selected to screen at the Margaret Mead Film and Winner – San Francisco International Film Festival (Golden Video Festival, New York Gate Awards). Winner – Grand Prix – Cinéma Du Réel. Winner Grand Prix – Green Visions Film Festival. Distinguished Achievement Award – IDA Awards (International Documentary Association). Winner – Basil Wright Prize, International Festival of Ethnographic Film (RAI). Winner – Best Documentary at a number of festivals including the AFI Awards, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Hawaii International Film Festival, Los Angeles Association of Film Critics and the Vancouver International Film Festival.

People & Society 31 A CALCUTTA CHINA DOLLS A CUNNAMULLA CHRISTMAS COMPASSIONATE RAGE

1 x 54 minutes 1 x 28 minutes 1 x 55 minutes 1 x 82 minutes

Producer: Denise Haslem Producer: Helen Bowden Producers: Helen Clucas, Alan Lindsay Producer/Writer/Director: Dennis O’Rourke Writer/Director: Maree Delofski Writer/Director: Tony Ayres Writer/Director: Alan Lindsay

Hidden in the middle of noisy, vibrant China Dolls is a stylish and moving portrayal of Moira Kelly has run an AIDS clinic for children Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, Calcutta is a quiet oasis, the Tollygunge gay Asian-Australians and their often diffi cult in Romania, worked in India with Mother is the end of the railway line. Here, Aboriginal Home, a refuge for 35 elderly Anglo-Indians. journeys to self-acceptance. In the gay scene, Teresa, nursed crack babies in the Bronx, and white Australians live together but apart. In stark contrast to the rest of post-colonial the young and beautiful possess the greatest been house mother at an Aboriginal mission Creativity struggles against indifference, India, the residents of Tollygunge cling to social power, but what is considered desirable and set up schools for kids in Bosnia. She eccentricity against conformity. In the months the belief that Britain is their true home. A is also infl uenced by race. This fi lm probes brings those in need of surgery from war leading up to a scorching Christmas in the Calcutta Christmas is a gentle portrait of life the uncomfortable reality of racial stereotyping zones to hospitals in the US, Canada, bush, there’s a lot more going on than the inside this forgotten community. and discrimination in the gay world. Ireland and Australia. Now, after three years annual lizard race. Sometimes sad, often dedicated to ill, injured and impoverished hilarious, this is an astonishingly honest A Film Australia National Interest Program. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with children in Albania, she’s creating a haven for portrait of life in a small, isolated outback Produced in association with SBS Independent. the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. young people on a farm outside Melbourne. community. Winner – Silver Conch, MIFF Awards, India. Winner Finalist – Documentary, Inside Out Film Festival, Canada. She has been called an angel of mercy and a Bronze WorldMedal – New York Festivals: International Finalist – Documentary, Turin International Gay & Lesbian A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Television Programming & Promotion. Winner – Best of Film Festival, Italy. Finalist, San Francisco International pain in the neck. One thing’s for certain – she with Camerawork Limited. Produced with the assistance the Festival, Documentary Category – Silver Images Film Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, USA. Finalist, Melbourne Queer won’t let anything stand in her way. Festival. Winner – Gold Plaque – Intercom. Nominee – IDA Film and Video Festival, Australia. Screemed at numerous of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Awards (International Documentary Association). Finalist festivals including – Queerupnorth Film Festival, UK; London – Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; New York Lesbian & Gay Film A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Winner – Outstanding Documentary, Hollywood Documentary Film Festival. Winner – Outstanding Certifi cate of Merit – San Francisco International Film Festival; Hong Kong Queer Film and Video Festival; Seoul with Vue Pty Ltd. Developed with the assistance of the Festival (Golden Gate Awards). International Queer Film & Video Festival. Achievement in Documentary – Urban Cinefi le Birthday Australian Film Commission and Cinemedia’s Film Victoria. Honours List. Winner – Best Documentary, Film Critics Circle Produced with the assistance of the Australian of Australia Awards. Winner – AFI Awards. Finalist – Cinéma Broadcasting Corporation. Du Réel. Finalist – International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA). Finalist – Chicago International Film Festival. Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Sheffi eld International Documentary Festival

32 People & Society DIVERTED DOWNUNDER FIRST FROM TO DELHI GRADS CONTACT KOREA WITH LOVE

1 x 55 minutes 4 x 26 minutes – NEW 1 x 54 minutes 1 x 52 minutes

Producer/ Writer/Director: Greg Stitt Producer: Mark Chapman Producers/Writers/Directors: Producers: Jessica Douglas-Henry, Associate Producer: Paul Roy Directors: Phoebe Hart, Randall Wood, Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson Christopher Thorburn Suzanne Howard (segments) Director: Jennifer Cummins

An English housewife ringing Harrods, a It’s the start of the semester at one of The now classic study of fi rst culture contact. The path to parenthood is never easy, New York stockbroker calling American Australia’s top universities and 37,000 In 1930, one million people lived in the especially when adopting from another Express and an Australian shopper phoning students are about to embark on their studies. highlands of New Guinea – their existence country. Filmed over a period of two years, Coles Myer, all have one thing in common University is make or break time; a time unknown to the outside world. The fi rst From Korea with Love follows the efforts – their customer service queries are likely that can change people forever. From free Europeans to encounter them were Australian of a western couple to adopt a child from to be re-routed to India and answered by education in the 1980s to a fee based system prospectors looking for gold. Mick Leahy, Asia. It is a nerve-wracking, frustrating and Indians impersonating local operators. It’s an that has seen a large increase in full fee who led one of these teams, recorded often lonely affair, marked by a mountain of increasingly attractive business proposition paying students, university education is now the encounters on fi lm. This unforgettable paperwork, medical tests and police checks, – labour and set-up costs are low yet the big business. Through a variety of character documentary features that remarkable footage but it’s worth it. This is a warm and intimate staff is keen and highly educated. Diverted stories this four-part series explores the along with contemporary interviews to capture portrait of lives about to change, the pain to Delhi follows university graduates through contemporary university experience of both reactions to an event that was destined to of the wait, the reality of racism and the a training course as they put aside their own international and Australian students from a change a people’s lives forever. power of love. identities and learn to speak and think like range of different backgrounds. their international callers. Arundel Productions An Iris Pictures and Heiress Films Production. Produced in association with SBS Independent. Financed with the A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Winner – San Francisco International Film Festival (Golden assistance of the Australian Film Finance Corporation. A Greg Stitt Production. Developed in association with with Big Island Pictures and the Pacifi c Film and Television Gate Awards). Winner – Silver Sesterce, Visions Du Reel the Australian Film Commission. Financed with the assistance Commission. Produced in association with SBS Independent. – International Festival of Documentary Films. Winner – Finalist – Most Outstanding Documentary – Grand Prix, Cinéma Du Réel . Winner – First Prize, Festival of the Australian Film Finance Corporation. Produced with the TV Week Logie Awards. dei Popoli. Winner – Best Documentary, AFI Awards. assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Winner – Best Documentary, ATOM Awards. Winner – Best Documentary, Sydney Film Festival. Finalist – Best Documentary, National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (Academy Awards)

People & Society 33 THE GROWING HUMAN LITTLE BROTHER, GAMBLERS UP AND CONTRAPTIONS LITTLE SISTER GOING HOME

6 x 26 minutes 1 x 52 minutes 10 x 5-6 minutes 1 x 52 minutes

Producer: Stefan Moore Producer: Mary-Ellen Mullane Producer: Deborah Szapiro Producer: Gaby Mason Directors: Aviva Ziegler, Susan Lambert, Writer/Director: Belinda Mason Writer/Director: Bruce Petty Writer/Director: Belinda Mason Catherine Marciniak, Terry Carlyon

The gambling industry is in the midst of Alemayehu, Sisay and Eleni are three young Academy Award winning animator Little Brother, Little Sister explores how unprecedented change. Ethiopians who were adopted by an extended Bruce Petty takes a satirical look at the lives can be transformed when the Low Go behind the scenes and into the lives Australian family in the mid 1990s. Ten years “contraptions” that shape our lives. Education, family choose to adopt orphan Ethiopian of the gamblers themselves as this six-part on, the two brothers (aged 19 and 16) and sex, fi nance, globalism, art, media, medicine, sister and brother, Eleni and Sisay. Filmed series looks at the growth of a national their 14-year-old sister are returning to their law, government and even the brain are over a two-year period this observational obsession. The stories are told from the homeland – with their adoptive parents transformed by Petty into evolving machines. documentary shows how Eleni, aged fi ve, points of view of those on the frontlines – and siblings – to reconnect with the family, Beginning with a simple concept, he takes and Sisay, aged seven, deal with the a casino executive, a race track manager, friends and culture they left behind. Exploring us on an anarchic journey through history profound changes to their lives. They bring a bookie and a professional punter, a suicidal contemporary issues surrounding inter-racial as each apparatus builds to its complex with them memories of a tragic personal addict and an anti-gambling crusader. adoption and immigration, this is a poignant contemporary form. In the wry, ironic style history but also a vibrant sense of family, Together, they paint a picture of a nation story of identity and belonging, as the that is his hallmark, Petty reveals these to be friendship and community. gripped by gambling. teenagers discover whether it is possible to contraptions of a very human kind – imperfect, fi nd a place in two different worlds. sometimes unpredictable and always subject Australian Film Finance Corporation & Alfred Road Films Pty Ltd A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the to change. A witty, provocative and entertaining assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with series, narrated by Andrew Denton. Iris Pictures, the New South Wales Film and Television Offi ce and SBS Independent. Developed with the assistance of the Film Australia/New South Wales Film and Television Offi ce A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the Hothouse Scheme. assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Winner – Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards. Finalist – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards. Finalist – Asia- Pacifi c Broadcast Union Prizes

34 People & Society OUR THE PILOT’S PLUMPTON RATS IN BROTHER FUNERAL HIGH BABIES THE RANKS JAMES

1 x 52 minutes 1 x 26 minutes 4 x 26 minutes 1 x 93 minutes

Producer: Mary-Ellen Mullane Producers: Denise Haslem, Trevor Graham Producer: Julian Russell Producers/ Writers/Directors: Bob Connolly, Writer/Director: Jessica Douglas-Henry Writer/Director: Rose Hesp Director: Aviva Ziegler Robin Anderson

James Dalmann killed himself in 1996. He When Adrian Wagg arrived in Arnhem Land Plumpton High, in Sydney’s outer western Politics is a bruising business. The best policies was 20. In this very personal fi lm, director in the 1970s, he fell in love with the place suburbs, is one of the few schools in Australia in the world mean nothing unless you’ve got Jessica Douglas-Henry returns to Geraldton and its people, helping the Yolngu to build with a program that supports schoolgirl the numbers. This fi lm takes a behind-locked- in Western Australia with her sister Alix to homes on their ancestral lands and establish mothers completing their education. This four- doors look at how politicians get the numbers. document the impact of her brother’ s death. their own airline. This moving documentary part series follows a year in the lives of some Every September Sydney’s Leichhardt Council Alix was the person closest to James. She recounts the life of this gentle giant of a man. of these young women as they hurtle from elects its mayor. Incumbent Larry Hand is was 17 when he died. In the three years that But more than this, it tells of the extraordinary girlhood to motherhood. None of it is easy – popular with the citizenry but they don’t vote followed, she lost fi ve other friends to suicide. ten-day funeral that followed his tragic death the decision to give birth, the confl icts with for mayor, the 12 councillors do and after three Although this fi lm is about James, it’s also in a helicopter accident. Not performed family and boyfriends, the new responsibilities. years of Larry some of them are after his job. Alix’s story. It’s about the people left behind, since the arrival of missionaries in the 1930s, The school offers them health and welfare whose lives have been changed forever by the traditional Yolngu ceremony celebrates support and constant encouragement, but A Film Australia and Arundel Films Co-Production in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the suicide of someone they loved. Retelling a remarkable bond, connecting black and the outcome depends on the girls. Channel Four and La Sept ARTE. the story is one way to reconcile what has white, people and land, past and future. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Silver Plaque – Social/Political Documentary, Chicago happened. It’s a diffi cult but necessary International Film Festival. Finalist – Best International with 220 Productions. Produced with the assistance of the journey, and in the end, a life-affi rming one. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with Documentary over 60 mins, Hot Docs! Canada. Screened the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. at the Shanghai Documentary Film Festival and the Sheffi eld International Documentary Festival Winner – Most Outstanding Finalist – TV Week Logie Awards A Film Australia National Interest Program in association Highly Commended – Human Rights Medal and Documentary Series/Program, TV Week Logie Awards. with Iris Pictures Pty Ltd. Developed with the assistance Awards, Australia Finalist – Documentary – Philadelphia Festival of World of the New South Wales Film and Television Offi ce and the Cinema, Singapore International Film Festival, Hawaii Australian Film Commission. Produced in association with International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival. Winner – Best Documentary, Film Critics Circle SBS Independent. of Australia Awards. Critic’s Choice – Best Documentary, Sydney Film Festival. Audience Choice Best Documentary, Melbourne International Film Festival

People & Society 35 RISKY ROSIE SELLING SHELL-SHOCKED BUSINESS AUSTRALIA

4 x 26 minutes 1 x 26 minutes 4 x 26 minutes 1 x 55 minutes

Series Producers: Denise Haslem, Producer: Robin Eastwood Producers: Ed Punchard, Julia Redwood Producer: Jane Ramsey Susan Lambert Director: Debbie Carmody Director: Julia Redwood Writer/Director: Stephen Ramsey Director: Susan Lambert

Most small businesses hit the wall in the In 1961, at the age of two, Rosalie Fraser Each year, millions of tourists come looking Four veterans fought in Vietnam at different fi rst three years. For those that tough out was taken from her Aboriginal family by the for the quintessential “Aussie experience”, but times, yet each one’s life has been equally the turmoil, it’s a Risky Business. Over four Western Australian Child Welfare Department are they getting anything more than koalas, shattered by the experience. One returned compelling episodes, this humourous, fast- and made a ward of the state. For years, boomerangs and a shrimp on the barbie? to Vietnam as a tourist and found it such a paced series follows the fortunes of four she suffered physical and emotional abuse This four-part series takes an eye-opening healing experience he invited the others to small businesses as their owners take risks at the hands of her foster mother. Beautifully and often droll journey behind the scenes of join him on one more return journey. As they that threaten their future, their fi nancial photographed, this dramatised documentary Australia’s multi-billion dollar tourism industry. travel back together, the fi lm fl ashes back security and their family relationships. tells her inspiring story of triumph over It reveals a world of ruthless marketing where to their individual war stories, illustrated by adversity. As Rosalie recounts her journey canny entrepreneurs are determined to give unique home movie footage of the war. We A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced in of self-discovery, we experience her pain, visitors exactly what they want, whether it’s a experience their fear, grief and joy as these association with SBS Independent. Developed with the assistance of the NSW Film and Television Offi ce. anguish and fi nally joy at being able to taste of Aboriginal culture, sandy beaches or a men confront, once again, the place that’s confront and accept the past. bush adventure. But how does it fi t with reality had such a disturbing impact on their lives. and the image the nation has of itself? The climax is a meeting with veterans from An Artemis International Production. Developed and the other side: ex-Viet Cong guerillas who produced with the assistance of ScreenWest and the A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with are suffering, just like the others, from post Lotteries Commission of Western Australia. Produced in Prospero Productions Pty Ltd. Produced with the assistance association with the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. traumatic stress. This fi lm reveals some Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. startling insights into the nature of war, and Winner – Certifi cate of Merit, Educational/Documentary Finalist – Shanghai Television Festival – Magnolia Awards. Section, Chicago International Television Competition TV helps us come to terms with a tumultuous Winner – National Australian Cinematographers Society Festival. Hors Concours Section – Banff Television Festival Awards. Winner – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) period in our history. Awards A Ramsey Films Pty Ltd Production.

36 People & Society UNDER UNDER WELCOME WELCOME ONE ROOF THE HAMMER TO THE TO WOOMERA WAKS FAMILY

3 x 52 minutes 4 x 26 minutes 1 x 52 minutes 1 x 55 minutes

Series Producer: Rosemary Blight Producers: Stefan Moore, Susan Lambert Producer: Barbara Chobocky (Producer), Producers: Steve Thomas, Kim Anning Directors: Kay Pavlou, Ray Argall Writer/Director: Susan Lambert Rod Freedman (Co-Producer) Writer/Director: Steve Thomas Director: Barbara Chobocky

This series opens the door on contemporary For agents, the real estate auction brings the Meet one of the largest families in Australia. This is a fi lm about ordinary people in a small family life. Inside Australian homes, it fi nds thrill of success or the agony of defeat. For With 17 children to the same two parents, town caught up in big events. As Australia’s the ties that bind families together and the home buyers and sellers, it can be a terrifying everyday life in the Waks household is only purpose-built defence village, Woomera pressures that pull them apart. Each episode journey into uncharted waters as their dreams, a logistical operation of monumental has been famous for its rocket range, as follows a different family negotiating the ups their memories, and the biggest investment proportions. Living in Melbourne’s suburbs, home to Americans from the Nurrungar and downs of everyday life. What support in their lives goes on the auction block. Under the family stands out in another way – it is base and, most recently, for its controversial does the family offer its members and what the Hammer is there with them as this real-life part of an orthodox Jewish community that immigration reception and processing centre. must they sacrifi ce in the interests of the drama unfolds. Intimate and emotional, the is largely closed off to secular life. How do But the centre has closed and the town is family? How do they manage the complexities series captures the bravado, happiness, the Waks cope with so many kids, and with in danger of closing too. Once heralded as of modern family living? How do they all shock and disappointment as the hammer the challenges presented by mainstream a model of suburban living then reviled as a survive life together under one roof? goes down. society? Why have they made these choices? “desert jail”, this fi lm looks at Woomera from Welcome to the Waks Family is a rare the inside and follows the town’s struggle to A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced in A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with invitation to step inside a family and a religious stay alive. association with SBS Independent. the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. life that are extraordinary in almost every respect. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Flying Carpet Films. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Documentary Films Pty Ltd. Produced in association with SBS Independent.

People & Society 37 THE LIFE SERIES: LIFE AT 3

2 x 55 minutes – NEW

Producer: Jennifer Cummins Writer/Director: Catherine Marciniak

The story continues for the children of The Life Series – now they are three. Over two episodes Life at 3 measures our group of children against the latest scientifi c fi ndings on two of the hottest topics in child development–obesity and bad behaviour. Join us on the greatest journey of all – life.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Heiress Films. Developed and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

38 Science, Health & Medicine BELINDA’S CROSSING GORGEOUS HANDLE BABY THE LINE WITH CARE

1 x 56 minutes 1 x 56 minutes 1 x 10 minutes 4 x 26 minutes

Producers: Celia Tait, Brian Beaton Producers: Rod Freedman, Kaye Harrison Producer: Sharon Connolly Producer: Mary-Ellen Mullane Writer/Director: Celia Tait Writer/Director: Kaye Harrison Director: Kaz Cooke Writer/Director: Jessica Douglas-Henry

Belinda Wardlaw-Jones is one of the few What happens when two young, white Gorgeous follows the perils of cartoon Meet a cast of dynamic doctors and nurses women in Australia to be born with a rare medical students go to work in a remote character Hermoine the Modern Girl as who work at the frontline of medical rescue. form of muscular dystrophy, an incurable Aboriginal community? On Mornington Island, she tackles plastic surgery, beauty therapy Handle with Care follows the work of NETS, muscle-wasting disease which can drastically Amy and Paul fi nd their attempts to make and bulimia in a feral fi t of inadequacy. a mobile intensive care service for Australian reduce life expectancy. Despite her condition a difference lead to moments of frustration Undermined by her evil inner voice, otherwise children and babies. Covering an area of and against the advice of many, she and and elation and much soul-searching. known as Deirdre the Weird Fairy, Hermoine 800,000 square kilometres and 6.4 million her husband Andrew decide to have a child. Crossing the Line reveals the practical realities journeys from heavy chocolate biscuit abuse people, the NETS teams travel by helicopter, Belinda defends her decision to proceed with of providing western medical services to to tortuous treatment at the beauty salon, the plane or road ambulance to the bedsides this pregnancy, believing it to be her right to Indigenous communities. boutique and the gym. of sick children. Bringing intensive care to become a mother, whatever the medical risks stabilise the children before transporting them and ultimate social costs may be. Produced by Change Focus Media in association with the A Film Australia National Interest Program to more specialised help means their chances Australian Film Commission, the NSW Film and Television Certifi cate of Merit – Chicago International Film Festival. Offi ce and Link Enterprises. of survival are dramatically increased. For the A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Winner – Best Short Animation, AFI Awards. Gold Medal – families in this series, this is one of the most Tait Productions. Produced in association with the Lotteries Winner – Prix de Jury, SCINEMA International Festival Prix Leonardo Film & Television Festival, Italy Commission of Western Australia and with the assistance of of Science Film, Video & Multimedia. Winner – Best confronting experiences that they will ever the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Documentary Social and Political Issues, Finalist – Best have to face. For the NETS teams, saving Documentary General, Finalist – Best Indigenous Resource at the ATOM Awards. Winner – Audience Award, Salon Des children’s lives happens every day. Refuses Film Festival An Iris Pictures Production. Financed with the assistance of the NSW Film and Television Offi ce. Produced in association with SBS Independent.

Science, Health & Medicine 39 THE LIFE SERIES: MATERNITY MYTHS OF SILENT LIFE AT 1 UNIT CHILDHOOD STORM

2 x 55 minutes 1 x 52 minutes 3 x 55 minutes 1 x 52 minutes

Producer: Jennifer Cummins Executive Producer: Jessica Douglas-Henry Producer: Anna Grieve Producers: Peter Butt, Rob McAuley Writer/Director: Catherine Marciniak Producer: Mary-Ellen Mullane Writer/Director: Sarah Gibson Writer/Director: Peter Butt Writer/Director: Janette Howe

How do you give a child the best chance For any woman, giving birth is a highly Today we are more concerned about children From 1957 to 1978, scientists secretly in life? Life at 1 is the fi rst instalment in a emotional experience – made even more and more confused about childhood than removed bone samples from over 21,000 landmark series that aims to unlock the challenging if you are new in a country ever before. But many of our ideas about dead Australians as they searched for secrets of child development by following 11 and have little family support. At Sydney’s childhood are based on myths. In this evidence of the deadly poison, Strontium 90 babies and their families for seven years. We Canterbury Hospital, nearly 80 per cent of provocative three-part series children and – a by-product of nuclear testing. Silent Storm witness the factors that impact their lives, the mothers-to-be are born outside Australia. adults from the USA, Australia and the United reveals the story behind this astonishing case watch the interplay of nature and nurture, and As well as catering for this cultural diversity, Kingdom talk about their own experiences. of offi cially sanctioned “body-snatching”. talk to experts to fi nd out what limits children’s staff must – as always – judge when to let Home movies, photographs and scenes Set against a backdrop of the Cold War, growth and wellbeing and what makes them nature take its course and when to intervene from TV and cinema show the childhoods we the saga follows celebrated scientist, Hedley thrive. Made in conjunction with the long-term medically. This very personal and revealing imagine. Bestselling authors like Penelope Marston, as he attempts to blow the whistle study in which 10,000 Australian children have documentary goes behind the closed doors Leach, Thomas Moore, Martin Seligman and on radioactive contamination and challenge been placed under a sociological and scientifi c of the maternity unit to follow all the drama, Marina Warner discuss changing ideas about offi cial claims that British atomic tests posed microscope, this groundbreaking program will intensity and unpredictability. It also provides childhood and the raising of children. Myths no threat to the Australian people. Marston’s try to discover what creates a happy, healthy an intimate insight into how different women of Childhood confronts the idea that children fi ndings are not only disputed, he is targeted child and what makes us who we are. Join us and their families and cultures welcome new are innocent, asks why we blame childhood as “a scientist of counter-espionage interest”. for the beginning of an extraordinary journey... life into the world. for adult unhappiness and questions the Now, questions are being raised about ambitions of parents who strive to be perfect. the health repercussions for generations A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with An Iris Pictures production in association with Janette of Australians. Heiress Films. Developed and produced in association with Howe. Developed with the assistance of the NSW Film and A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Television Offi ce and in association with the Australian Film assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Commission. Produced in association with SBS Independent. A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced in Winner – Beijing International Scientifi c Film Festival. Winner Financed by the Film Finance Corporation. Winner – International TV Programming: World Medal, association with SBS Independent. – Chicago International Television Competition Hugo Awards New York Festivals: International Television Programming & Finalist – MIFF Awards, India. Winner – Earth Vision – Tokyo for Excellence in Television. Finalist – TV Week Logie Awards. Promotion Finalist – SCINEMA International Festival of Science Film, Global Environmental Film Festival. Finalist – Ecocinema Video & Multimedia. Finalist – Australian Guild of Screen International Film Festival, Greece. Best of Earth Vision Composers Awards. Honourable Mention – Sydney Morning Touring Program 2005. Finalist – ATOM (Australian Teachers Herald Couch Potato Awards. Winner – Australian Directors of Media) Awards. Finalist – NSW Premier’s History Awards Guild Awards

40 Science, Health & Medicine TED’S TROUBLED WHO’S AFRAID THE WINNERS’ EVOLUTION MINDS OF DESIGNER GUIDE TO THE THE LITHIUM BABIES? NOBEL PRIZE REVOLUTION

1 x 54 minutes 1 x 52 minutes 1 x 52 minutes 1 x 55 minutes

Producers: David Noakes, Lou Petho Producer: John Lewis Producers: Tony Wright, Stuart Menzies Producer: Andrew Ogilvie (Executive Director: Lou Petho Writer/Director: Dennis K Smith Writer/Director: Sean Cousins Producer for Electric Pictures), Andrea Quesnelle (Associate Producer) Director: Mark Gould

Charles Darwin started a revolution when he In a disused hospital pantry in the 1940s, Dr New techniques in genetic technology allow What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? published his evolutionary theory in the late John Cade, discovered an astonishing treatment scientists to “design” our descendants. Guts? Brilliance? Eccentricity? This fi lm 1800s. He challenged the belief that God for bi-polar disorder. It would revolutionise the Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or PGD travels behind the scenes of the world’s created the world in seven days, and the way we think about mental illness and mark allows scientists to screen embryos conceived most prestigious prize and into the minds theories of people such as Jean Baptiste de the beginning of psychopharmacology – using through IVF. But what is the potential of this of two of the people who have reached Lamarck, who believed that characteristics drugs to manage psychiatric conditions. technology and who should decide how to this pinnacle of excellence. acquired during a lifetime could be passed on This was inspired thinking at a time when use it? This compelling documentary follows to the next generation. Since then, Darwinian Freudian psychoanalysis, electric shock and a couple who are trying to have a child with A Film Australia and Electric Pictures Production in association with ScreenWest and Lotterywest. Developed theory has become the accepted scientifi c lobotomy were the dominant approaches and the right genetic make-up to save their son’s and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting doctrine but now scientist, Ted Steele, is patients were often locked up in asylums. The life. It also talks to parents who have used Corporation. stirring things up again. Is he pursuing a breakthrough followed years of research and PGD for gender selection and to leading Winner – Gold Dragon Award, Beijing International Scientifi c false dream or is he about to change what experimentation and it would take two more scientists and ethicists from around the world. Film Festival. Finalist – SCINEMA International Festival of Science Film, Video & Multimedia, Australia. Honorable we know about life on earth? Reputations, decades of struggle before lithium treatment Going beyond sensationalist media headlines, Mention – Australian Directors Guild Awards. Finalist – careers and our understanding of evolution was fi nally accepted – but Cade’s successors this fascinating and thought-provoking fi lm Australian Museum Eureka Prize are all on the line. persevered. Their work has meant a chance at presents a wide range of perspectives on a stability for hundreds of thousands of people, complex and emotionally charged issue. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with and lithium remains the benchmark for bi-polar Stoney Creek Productions. Developed with the assistance treatment today. A Film Australia National Interest Program in association of the Australian Film Commission. Produced with the with December Films. Developed with the assistance of the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Australian Film Commission. Produced and developed with A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with the assistance of Film Victoria. Produced in association with Winner – Banff Rockie Award – Best Popular Science & Omar Khayam Films. Developed with the assistance of Film Natural History Program, Banff Television Festival. Finalist – SBS Independent. Victoria. Produced in association with SBS Independent. International Scientifi c Film Festival Winner – International Vega Awards for Excellence in Scientifi c Broadcasting, UK. Finalist – Beijing International Scientifi c Film Festival. Winner – Mental Health Matters Awards, Australia . Winner – AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild) Awards. Finalist – Australian Guild of Screen Composers Awards. Winner – State Australian Cinematographers Society Awards. Finalist – Centre for Australian Cultural Studies National Cultural Awards. Finalist – Australian Museum Eureka Prize

Science, Health & Medicine 41 ROLLER DERBY DOLLS

1 x 26 minutes – NEW

Executive Producers: Mark Hamlyn (Film Australia), Trish Lake (Freshwater Productions) Producer: Vickie Gest, Eve Williamson (Associate Producer) Director: Phoebe Hart A sassy group of women from all walks of life have a dream: to resurrect the lost sport of full-contact roller derby in Australia. Led by their president Evil Doll, and despite none having experience in business, the roller girls have set up a roller derby league, one of 220 now dotted around the globe. Roller Derby Dolls is a story of female empowerment and of women with a dream – the dream of inspiring women in Australia to strap on the skates and give the sport a go.

A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Freshwater Productions and the Pacifi c Film and Television Commission. Produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

42 Sport & Leisure THE LAST LEISURE NERVES GREAT OF STEEL AMATEURS

1 x 56 minutes 1 x 13 minutes 1 x 56 minutes

Producers: Richard Keddie, Lisa Keddie, Producer: Suzanne Baker Producer: Sally Regan Andrew Wiseman (Co-producer) Director: Bruce Petty Writer/Director: Andrea Ulbrick Director: Sue Thomson

This season, the women of the Melbourne A fast-paced, humorous and thought- Skeleton is a head-fi rst, full-throttle slide Phoenix Netball Club will again put their provoking fi lm using animation by Australian down a winding, icy track. It’s one of the personal lives and other careers on hold newspaper cartoonist Bruce Petty. This most dangerous and demanding sports and train to exhaustion at least six times a Oscar-winning fi lm emphasises the use of there is. And, for four fearless young women week for the love of their sport and a shot at leisure time as an important aspect of life from Australia’s beaches, it’s their unexpected glory. These players are the best in the world in our society today. Planning for recreation chance at Olympic glory. Handpicked for the yet, in an era of multimillion-dollar sporting and leisure time should be undertaken both challenge, science is now pushing them to competitions, the clubs in the National Netball on a personal and on a public level. new extremes. This exhilarating documentary League operate on shoestring budgets follows the fate of the team – the athletes, and are run largely by volunteers. The Last Produced at Film Graphics Pty Ltd for the Department of manager and coach – as they hurtle towards Environment, Housing & Community by Film Australia. Great Amateurs follows players, coach and the 2006 Torino Winter Games, tracking both administrators through a year of pain and Winner – Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences the scientifi c juggernaut and the all-too- (Academy Awards), USA passion, rivalry and camaraderie, fundraising human drama. raffl es and contract battles. To watch these talented, dedicated sportswomen on the A Film Australia National Interest Program. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. court is remarkable but the story of how they make it there is equally enthralling. Finalist – Banff World Television Festival. Winner – SCINEMA International Festival of Science Film, Video & Multimedia. Winner – Sport Movies & TV – 22nd International Festival, A Film Australia National Interest Program in association with Italy. Winner – Australian Sports Commission Media Awards. Apollo Films. Developed with the assistance of the Australian Finalist – ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media) Awards Film Commission and Film Victoria. Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Winner – Sport Movies & TV – 22nd International Festival, Italy

Sport & Lesiure 43 Photographers of Australia 6 Gone to a Good Home 12 High Defi nition INDEX Pilot’s Funeral, The 35 Infamous Victory – Bombora – Sadness 6 Ben Chifl ey’s Battle for Coal 23 The Story of Australian Surfi ng 19 Tosca – A Tale of Love and Torture 6 Land of the Morning Star 16 Captain Cook – Trouble with Merle, The 9 Mabo – Life of an Island Man 8 Obsession and Discovery 20 Two Thirds Sky – Artists in Desert Country 7 No Sex, No Violence, No News 16 Constructing Australia – Bridge, The 21 Unfolding Florence – Ordinary People 16 Darwin’s Brave New World 21 The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst 2 Policing the Pacifi c 16 Every Family’s Nightmare 11 BY GENRE Unstoppable Force, An – Post, The 17 Feral Peril 27 Betty Churcher with John Olsen 7 Rats in the Ranks 35 Hunt for HMAS Sydney, The 23 Adventure & Travel Vietnam Symphony 7 Rosa’s Journey 17 Mawson – Life and Death in Antarctica 18 Bush Mechanics – The Series 31 Wildness 7 Rosie 36 Menzies and Churchill at War 23 Captain Cook – Safe House, The 17 Monash – The Forgotten Anzac 24 Obsession and Discovery 20 Biography Silent Storm 40 Rare Chicken Rescue 26 Mawson – Life and Death in Antarctica 18 Captain Cook – Traffi cked 17 Safe House, The 17 Niagara’s Gold 24 Obsession and Discovery 20 Unfolding Florence – Selling Australia 36 Edge of the World, The 4 Docu-Drama The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst 2 Fabric of a Dream, The – Air Australia 19 Animation/Shorts The Fletcher Jones Story 9 Captain Cook – History Bobtales 27 Imaginary Life, An 5 Obsession and Discovery 20 Art of War, The 3 Gorgeous 39 Mabo – Life of an Island Man 8 Constructing Australia 20 Air Australia 19 Hidden Treasures – Mawson – Life and Death in Antarctica 18 Darwin’s Brave New World 21 Bombora – Inside the National Gallery of Australia 5 Monash – The Forgotten Anzac 24 Fabric of a Dream, The – The Story of Australian Surfi ng 19 Hidden Treasures – Mr Patterns 5 The Fletcher Jones Story 9 Captain Cook – Inside the National Library of Australia 5 Trouble with Merle, The 9 Floating Brothel, The 22 Obsession and Discovery 20 Human Contraptions 34 Uncle Chatzkel 9 Infamous Victory – Celluloid Heroes, The 4 Leisure 43 Unfolding Florence – Ben Chifl ey’s Battle for Coal 23 City of Dreams 20 Muttaburrasaurus 28 The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst 2 Mawson – Life and Death in Antarctica 18 Colour of War 20 Story of Rosy Dock, The 29 Menzies and Churchill at War 23 Constructing Australia 20 Where the Forest Meets the Sea 29 Crime & Investigation Monash – The Forgotten Anzac 24 Constructing Australia – Bridge, The 21 Community Cop 11 Prime Minister is Missing, The 24 Constructing Australia – Pipe Dreams 21 Arts & Music Dhakiyarr vs the King 11 Road to Tokyo 25 Constructing Australia – Art of War, The 3 Every Family’s Nightmare 11 Rogue Nation 25 A Wire Through the Heart 21 Buried Country 3 In The Realm Of The Hackers 11 Silent Storm 40 Darwin’s Brave New World 21 Celluloid Heroes, The 4 Prime Minister is Missing, The 24 Troubled Minds – The Lithium Revolution 41 Dhakiyarr vs the King 11 China Dolls 32 Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? 10 Unfolding Florence – Fabric of a Dream, The – City of Dreams 20 The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst 2 The Fletcher Jones Story 9 Dreamings – The Art of Current Affairs Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? 10 Fifth Set, The 22 Aboriginal Australia 4 Abortion, Corruption and Cops – Floating Brothel, The 22 Edge of the World, The 4 The Bertram Wainer Story 13 Gender Issues Forgotten Force, The 22 Facing the Music 4 Big Brother of Christmas Island 13 China Dolls 32 Fortress Australia 22 Hidden Treasures – Blood Brothers 14 Floating Brothel, The 22 Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Gallery of Australia 5 Community Cop 11 Gone to a Good Home 12 Inside the National Gallery of Australia 5 Hidden Treasures – Diplomat, The 14 Gorgeous 39 Hidden Treasures – Inside the National Library of Australia 5 Diverted to Delhi 33 Maternity Unit 40 Inside the National Library of Australia 5 Imaginary Life, An 5 East Timor – Birth of a Nation 14 Plumpton High Babies 35 Lost in Flanders 23 Mr Patterns 5 Every Family’s Nightmare 11 Roller Derby Dolls 42 Hunt for HMAS Sydney, The 23 Peter Berner’s Loaded Brush 6 Fearless – Stories from Asian Women 14 Sadness 6 Infamous Victory – Traffi cked 17 Ben Chifl ey’s Battle for Coal 23

44 Genre Index Mawson – Life and Death in Antarctica 18 Menzies and Churchill at War 23 Science, Health & Medicine Human Contraptions 34 Menzies and Churchill at War 23 Monash – The Forgotten Anzac 24 Abortion, Corruption and Cops – Life at 1 40 Monash – The Forgotten Anzac 24 Prime Minister is Missing, The 24 The Bertram Wainer Story 13 Life at 3 38 Niagara’s Gold 24 Rare Chicken Rescue 26 Belinda’s Baby 39 Life Series, The 38, 40 Operation Babylift 24 Rogue Nation 25 Crossing the Line 39 Myths of Childhood 40 Photographers of Australia 6 Roller Derby Dolls 42 From Korea with Love 33 Plumpton High Babies 35 Prime Minister is Missing, The 24 Rosa’s Journey 17 Gorgeous 39 Policing the Pacifi c 16 Return to Sandakan 25 Safe House, The 17 Handle With Care 39 Risky Business 36 Road to Tokyo 25 Unstoppable Force, An – Life at 1 40 Rogue Nation 25 Rogue Nation 25 Betty Churcher with John Olsen 7 Life at 3 38 Selling Australia 36 Silent Storm 40 Life Series, The 38, 40 Under One Roof 37 Thomson of Arnhem Land 25 People & Society Maternity Unit 40 Under the Hammer 37 Trouble with Merle, The 9 Auto Stories 31 Myths of Childhood 40 Troubled Minds – The Lithium Revolution 41 Black Harvest 31 Our Brother James 35 Sport & Leisure Uncle Chatzkel 9 Blood Brothers 14 Sadness 6 Fifth Set, The 22 Vietnam Symphony 7 Bush Mechanics – The Series 31 Silent Storm 40 Last Great Amateurs, The 43 Calcutta Christmas, A 32 Ted’s Evolution 41 Leisure 43 Natural History China Dolls 32 Troubled Minds – The Lithium Revolution 41 Nerves of Steel 43 Bobtales 27 Community Cop 11 Who’s Afraid of Designer Babies? 41 Roller Derby Dolls 42 Cane Toads – An Unnatural History 27 Compassionate Rage, A 32 Winners’ Guide to the Nobel Prize, The 41 First Contact 33 Cunnamulla 32 War & Military Feral Peril 27 Diverted to Delhi 33 Series Art of War, The 3 Million Acres a Year, A 27 Downunder Grads 33 Art of War, The 3 Colour of War 20 Muddy Waters – Life and Death Facing the Music 4 Air Australia 19 Forgotten Force, The 22 on the Great Barrier Reef 28 First Contact 33 Auto Stories 31 Fortress Australia 22 Muttaburrasaurus 28 From Korea with Love 33 Bobtales 27 Lost in Flanders 23 Rare Chicken Rescue 26 Gamblers, The 34 Bombora – Menzies and Churchill at War 23 Reef Route 66 – The Colour Cycle 28 Gone to a Good Home 12 The Story of Australian Surfi ng 19 Monash – The Forgotten Anzac 24 Remembering Rain 28 Growing Up and Going Home 34 Bush Mechanics – The Series 31 Niagara’s Gold 24 Slow Food Revolution 29 Human Contraptions 34 Captain Cook – Operation Babylift 24 Story of Rosy Dock, The 29 I’ll Call Australia Home 30 Obsession and Discovery 20 Return to Sandakan 25 Ten Million Wildcats 29 Little Brother, Little Sister 34 Celluloid Heroes, The 4 Road to Tokyo 25 Where the Forest Meets the Sea 29 Our Brother James 35 Colour of War 20 Shell-shocked 36 Wilderness 7 Pilot’s Funeral, The 35 Constructing Australia 20 Plumpton High Babies 35 Constructing Australia – Bridge, The 21 New Rats in the Ranks 35 Constructing Australia – Pipe Dreams 21 Captain Cook – Remembering Rain 28 Constructing Australia – Obsession and Discovery 20 Risky Business 36 A Wire Through the Heart 21 Represented internationally by ABC Commercial Community Cop 11 Roller Derby Dolls 42 Darwin’s Brave New World 21 www.abccontentsales.com.au Downunder Grads 33 Rosie 36 Downunder Grads 33 [email protected] Hidden Treasures – East Timor – Birth of a Nation 14 Selling Australia 36 Sydney offi ce Inside the National Library of Australia 5 Shell-shocked 36 Fearless – Stories from Asian Women 14 phone +61 2 8333 3314 Hunt for HMAS Sydney, The 23 Slow Food Revolution 29 Gamblers, The 34 fax +61 2 8333 3169

I’ll Call Australia Home 30 Thomson of Arnhem Land 25 Handle With Care 39 London offi ce Infamous Victory – Under One Roof 37 Hidden Treasures – phone +44 20 7079 3201 Ben Chifl ey’s Battle for Coal 23 Under the Hammer 37 Inside the National Gallery of Australia 5 fax +44 20 7079 3251 Life at 3 38 Welcome to the Waks Family 37 Hidden Treasures – Mawson – Life and Death in Antarctica 18 Welcome to Woomera 37 Inside the National Library of Australia 5

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