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Shadow Panic (1989)
Shadow Panic is a short experimental drama in which three women characters – 'The Redhead’, 'The Investigator’ and 'The Hothead’ – seem to be inextricably linked through memory, dreams and an increasing state of emergency. Unknown to each other, their ... [read more]
Summer Heights High – Episode 5 (2007)
Summer Heights High follows three characters at a fictional school, Summer Heights High, for the duration of a school term, each played by Chris Lilley. In this episode, Ja’mie and her friends campaign for a year 11 formal at the ... [read more]
In the Winter Dark (1998)
In an isolated Australian valley, something or someone is killing native animals and livestock in the night. Maurice Stubbs (Ray Barrett), an aging farmer, finds a dead kangaroo with its throat torn out. He believes it’s been killed by a ... [read more]
Innocence (2000)
Widower and retired musician Andreas (Charles Tingwell) writes to his first love, Claire (Julia Blake), who has long been married, expressing his desire to meet for the first time since their youthful love affair in Europe 50-odd years ago. They ... [read more]
Dead-end Drive-in (1986)
In the 1990s economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding ‘car boys’, authorities convert the Star Drive-in into a jail for unemployed young people. Captives are given action movies to watch and junk ... [read more]
Chandon Pictures – Champion Charles (2007)
Tom Chandon (Rob Carlton) is an aspiring feature documentary director with one credit to his name, the largely unseen Oh No Bonzo: The Clown that Killed a Child. With producer Lucy Cannon (Rebecca Massey) and cinematographer Nick Brenner (Darren Gilshenan) ... [read more]
We Can Be Heroes – Episode 3 (2005)
Mockumentary series We Can Be Heroes follows five very different nominees for the Australian of the Year award in the lead-up to the event. In this episode, former policeman bravery award recipient and wannabe motivational speaker Phil Olivetti secures his ... [read more]
The Harold Holt Mystery (1985)
On 17 December 1967 Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea, an hour’s drive south of Melbourne in Victoria. His body was never found. Using dramatic re-creation and archival footage, this docudrama traces the ... [read more]
Death in Brunswick (1990)
Carl (Sam Neill) takes a job as cook at a seedy nightclub in Brunswick, an inner suburb of Melbourne. He is verging on being an alcoholic loser until he meets Sophie (Zoe Carides), the club’s 19-year-old barmaid. They fall passionately ... [read more]
The Sum of Us (1994)
Jeff Mitchell (Russell Crowe) lives at home with his dad Harry (Jack Thompson), in an old weatherboard cottage in a working-class street of Balmain. Harry skippers harbour ferries; Jeff is a plumber. He’s also gay – or as Harry prefers ... [read more]
Keating Speech: The Redfern Address (1992)
On 10 December 1992, at the official opening of the United Nations International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in Redfern Park New South Wales, the then Prime Minister the Honourable Paul J Keating made a landmark speech which influenced ... [read more]
The Finished People (2003)
The Finished People cuts between three stories of disadvantaged young people struggling to survive on the streets of Cabramatta, a suburb in south-west Sydney known for its high crime rate and also for its high concentration of Vietnamese Australians. Van ... [read more]
Bomb Harvest (2007)
Bomb Harvest follows Laith Stevens, an Australian bomb disposal specialist training a team in Laos to clear bombs left from the ‘secret war’ the US waged at the time of the Vietnam War. The film also tracks the locals, including ... [read more]
A Film for Discussion (1973)
A Film for Discussion is a black-and-white experimental film made in 1970 using dramatised scenes, historical footage, stills, posters and ads to convey the situation of women, the emergence of the women’s movement in Australia and the awakening of one ... [read more]
The Sullivans – On the Brink of War (1976)
The Sullivans tells the story of the Second World War through the eyes of a Melbourne family, their friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Told in ‘real time’, with each week’s episodes reflecting a week of the war, On the Brink of ... [read more]
Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) meets Lizzie (Cate Blanchett) while trying to find the owner of a cat in distress. For him, it is love at first sight and within six weeks they decide to marry. Guy starts daydreaming about his old ... [read more]
The Oasis (2008)
The Oasis is a feature-length observational documentary about a youth support network centre called the Oasis. It is run by the Salvation Army not far from Sydney’s city centre. The film follows the stories of five kids at the centre ... [read more]
MDA – Second Chance (2005)
Led by dour Bill 'Happy’ Henderson (Shane Bourne), the team of doctors and lawyers at MDA – Medical Defence Australia – provide insurance and legal representation to doctors. In Second Chance, Happy’s team becomes concerned when he arrives at ... [read more]
The Square (2008)
Married construction site manager Ray (David Roberts) is having an affair with Carla (Claire van der Boom), a neighbour who lives across the river in a leafy southern Sydney suburb. Carla persuades him to help her steal a bag of ... [read more]
Next of Kin (1982)
Twenty-four-year-old Linda Stevens (Jacki Kerin) inherits Montclare, a country mansion which was turned into a retirement home by her late mother and her sister, Aunt Rita. Strange events described in her mother’s diaries – lights and taps turning on by ... [read more]
