Output list
Film
Published 2025
A missing Caucasian girl's return with a mysterious Nigerian ornament forces her factualist mother to confront a powerful Nigerian spirit, which demands their ancestral figurine and her soul to save her possessed daughter.
Film
Published Spring 2024
Wadjemup has been a significant place for the First People of this land for at least 40,000 years. Once part of the mainland, it became an island as sea levels rose, regardless Wadjemup remains the place where the spirits of Noongar moort (family), travel to their final resting place beyond the Island. But Wadjemup also holds a dark secret which is part of the story of this land...
Film
Published 2023
Survivors of Wadjemup refers to both the title of a 2022 documentary film and the descendants of the Aboriginal men and boys who were imprisoned on Wadjemup (Rottnest Island) between 1838 and 1931. For those who survived, their descendants now tell their stories, which are often a part of a larger truth-telling effort and reconciliation process for Western Australia
Film
Published 2022
A young African immigrant, Achiro, is torn between her dreams of becoming a filmmaker and the financial pressures to provide for her family back home.
Film - Short Film
Published 2015
Sol Bunker is a successful yet eccentric sound designer who searches for the elusive ‘frequency of life’ to help save his dying wife. Whilst Sol progressively falls deeper into obsession, it is up to his son Addie to take on the role of parent and to help Sol understand reality.
Film - Documentary
Walking Together - Belonging to Country
Published 2015
The film celebrates the remarkable similarities between Nyungar knowledge and Western science. It takes the audience through a 300 million year journey, as the two hosts they walk the magnificent Swan River from its source to the ocean.
Film - Documentary
SYNERGIES: Walking Together - Belonging to Country (Djena Koorliny Danjoo Boodjar-ang)
Published 2015
This film celebrates the remarkable similarities between Nyungar knowledge and Western science. It takes the audience through a 300 million year journey, featuring Nyungar Elder Dr Noel Nannup and Professor Stephen D. Hopper, as they walk the magnificent Swan River from its source to the ocean...
Film - Documentary
Wadjemup: Black Prison - White Playground
Published 2014
The Island of Rottnest is commonly known to Nyungar people as Wadjemup, meaning "place across the river". Located approximately 18 km off the coast of Western Australia, near Fremantle, it is world renowned as a tourism precinct. Less well known is its hidden history related to Aboriginal incarceration, dispossession and death. Funded via the Australian Research Council this docu-drama investigates and examines the Nyungar cosmology and spirituality related to the Island and its cultural significance to Nyungar knowledge and history.
Film - Short Film
Published 2006
In 1842 the Crown prosecuted Weewar, a Bindjareb Nyungar, for carrying out tribal payback. Weewar's trial became the test case in Western Australia, which determined that British Law took precedence over traditional law.
Film - Short Film
Footprints in the Sand (Jinna Mitinu Barnunga)
Published 2006
Footprints in the Sand tells of the extraordinary search for Warri and Yatungka, believed to be the last of the Gibson Desert people who 'came in’ out of the desert for the first time in the late 1970s. This is both a sad love story and an uplifting tale of survival and rescue.