Short films have proved a successful training ground for Indigenous filmmakers like Wayne Blair and Warwick Thornton whose The Sapphires (2012) and Samson and Delilah (2009), respectively, have placed Indigenous Australian filmmaking on the world cinema map.

We’ve recently added four short films from the first two series of Deadly Yarns to ASO (see them on the homepage and listed below).

Deadly Yarns has given Indigenous West Australian filmmakers an invaluable opportunity to hone their craft through writing, directing and producing short dramas and documentaries. The films are jointly funded by ABC TV, ScreenWest and the Film and Television Institute (WA).

There have now been six series of Deadly Yarns since 2004 and we’ll be including more of these shorts on ASO later in the year.

In the meantime, you can look at short films on ASO from these other Indigenous filmmaking initiatives:

• Bit of Black Business
• Crossing Tracks
• Dramatically Black
• From Sand to Celluloid
• Loved Up
• Shifting Sands

Above image is from Deadly Yarns 3 – Who Paintin’ Dis Wandjina? (2007).