Directed by STEVE THOMAS. Produced by JOHN MOORE. In the late 1940s, Harold Blair emerged as one of the most renowned Australian tenors of the concert hall, at a time when very few Aboriginal people could break through the barriers of the repressive Queensland reserve system. HAROLD takes us on…
A major documentary classic from 1989, HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES offers a passionate global history of nursing, using Australia as a case study but with comparative input from American and British counterparts. It highlights the complex social, political and professional challenges faced by nurses today. <b>The…
DIGITALLY REMASTERED - a film by Solrun Hoaas. 'No Japanese women, or any half castes either, will be admitted to Australia . . . they are simply not wanted and are permanently undesirable,' stated a 1948 instruction from the then Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell. GREEN TEA AND…
THE KEY OF G is an award-winning feature documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. The film follows Gannet, a charismatic 22-year-old with physical and developmental disabilities, as he leaves his mother's home to share an apartment with a close-knit group of artists and musicians…
um filme de Lova Nantenaina “Os chineses fazem as coisas, os malgaxes as consertam.” Confrontados com a adversidade e as lutas diárias, a maneira malgaxe de vida é uma mistura de criatividade, música, alegria de viver, fraternidade e, acima de tudo, um sentimento…
a film by Marie-Clémence & Cesar Paes. A very fresh approach to the questions of identity, immigration, and integration... The mixing of cultures in French Guiana through the cooking of... a magic dish. BEST ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM - Festival dei Popoli, Firenze (Italy) BEST FILM ON CREOLE…
Documentary of an epic project bringing canoeing to the Amazon. The trials and tribulations of getting canoes there and then canoeing the Alta Madre de Dios river in the Peruvian Amazon. Its a story about effort and life in a isolated part of the world experiencing great change.
REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS www.revelationfilmfest.org www.revstream.com.au Dir: Robert Stone Year: 2007 Duration: 90mins From the director of the fantastic documentary "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst" comes this fascinating and utterly gripping examination…
Basketball is king in Kentucky, especially in rural areas like Taylor County. In 2015, the Taylor County boy's basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in 32 years. The Cardinals lost in the first round of the state tournament, but with two of their top players returning the…
It is a documentary about Istanbul.
This is an observational documentary, which records one individual's efforts to stand up for the memory of his ancestors, against a state committed to genocide denial.
"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it.” - Dziga Vertov ("Kino-Eye") These words, written in 1923 (only a year after Robert Flaherty’s NANOOK OF THE NORTH was released) reflect the Soviet pioneer’s…
