In the 1850s, Melbourne was the fastest growing city in the world. “They dreamt big, they built big….it was a city jumping out of its skin”. It became an epicentre of film culture and its hotels, restaurants and cafes became world renowned.
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream.
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world's greatest empire. Over seven episodes, First Australians depicts the true stories of individuals - both black and white - caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history.
A film about the cultural evolution of the inner-Sydney beachside suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle of its youth, the tattooed and much maligned surf tribe known as the Bra Boys.
Facing Monsters digs deep into the psyche of enigmatic West Australian ‘slab wave’ surfer Kerby Brown, a man whose connection with the ocean runs as deep as his love for his family. An unapologetic musing into the essence of Kerby and his family as we join them on his quest to ride a ferocious slab wave deep in the Southern Ocean.
Myuran Sukumaran, the Bali-9 convicted criminal became an accomplished artist while in Kerobokan prison under the tutorship of artist Ben Quilty. Director Matthew Sleeth - who worked with Quilty in Kerobokan Prison throughout Sukumaran's rehabilitation - creates an intimate, visceral portrait of Myuran during his last 72-hours.