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