TAGGED: Australian documentaries
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Ella Havelka, the first Indigenous dancer with the Australian Ballet, discusses the documentary Ella with director Douglas Watkin and the NFSA's Karina Libbey.

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Director Ian Darling, ex-footballer Michael O’Loughlin, and AFL Inclusion and Social Policy Manager Tanya Hosch discuss the Adam Goodes documentary The Final Quarter and racism in sport with ABC's Fran Kelly

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On 7 February 2020, the NFSA hosted a screening and conversation with filmmaker Richard Lowenstein and film editor Taylor Martin about the making of the documentary, Mystify: Michael Hutchence

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This collection celebrates the work of the McDonagh sisters. In the 1920s, they became the first women to own and operate a film production company in Australia.

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This documentary follows the journey of filmmaker Craig Anderson trying to fulfil his ambition of making a (low-budget) horror film, Red Christmas (2016) – about an aborted foetus tha

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Wrong Side of the Road is based on the real-life experiences of two Aboriginal bands on the road, Us Mob and No Fixed Address, gigging between Port Adelaide and Point Pearce, SA.

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Grant Leigh Saunders is an Aboriginal filmmaker, teacher and songwriter. Despite a promising artistic career, Grant is unsettled and feels there is something missing in his life.

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Upon becoming a father, award-winning author Benjamin Allmon realised he knew nothing of the Indigenous history of his home, the land of the Saltwater People, to teach his son.

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The Aboriginal story is often buried deep beneath the accepted 247-year Australian historical narrative. It's not that the Australian story is wrong, it's just that it's a wee bit one-sided.

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NFSA Restores: Eternity has premiered at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival. The acclaimed 1994 documentary has been digitally restored 25 years after its release.