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A Mongolian Couch
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
George Clipp, Eva Arnold
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Begzsuren lives with his wife and four children in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and possesses an inspiring passion to improve both his family's and his community's lot.
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Lynn-Maree Milburn, Richard Lowenstein
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Guitarist, songwriter and artist Rowland S.Howard was an instrumental figure in the Australian rock scene, particularly renowned for his role in the seminal post-punk outfit The Birthday Party. In a career spanning 30 years Howard worked with the best artists of his generation, including Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch and Ollie Olsen. He was a singular talent, cut short by an untimely death in 2009.
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Amiel Courtin-Wilson
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Destined for stardom, Ben Lee cemented his place in the annals of Australian pop with his catchy tunes and his extraordinary self-confidence. Despite a remarkable music career that has taken him from the suburbs of Sydney to the boroughs of New York, Lee’s private life has largely remained an enigma till now.
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Carmen Rupe
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Lucy Hayes
Starring:
Carmen Rupe
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This is the story of transformation of a man becoming a woman. We document Carmen Rupe’s journey of self- discovery and sexuality in becoming a woman and leaving the identity of the once Trevor Rupe behind.
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Common Ground
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Hollie Fifer
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A documentary collaboration between Uncle Bob Randall and Hollie Fifer. At a time when climate change and sustainability is a crucial debate on how society lives into the future, Uncle Bob shares his life learning’s. Uncle Bob is a desert man and Hollie grew up in the concrete walls of Melbourne. They couldn't be more different.However while reconnecting with the Australian landscape they find common ground.
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Dancing with Dictators
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Hugh Piper
Starring:
Ross Dunkley
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Dancing with Dictators is a film about the struggle for control of MCM, the only media company in Burma with any foreign investment. The incredible-but-true story of an Australian journalist who owns a newspaper in Burma, one of the most repressive countries on earth.
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Decadence
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Pria Viswalingam
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After just 300 years, after all the triumph and tragedy, the success and anguish, the West now faces its greatest challenge – endurance in the Asian century. Is the West destined for a new renaissance or a final dark age? You choose.
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Donydji
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Steven Robinson
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A group of Vietnam Veterans work as volunteers in a isolated Aboriginal community in Northern Arnhen Land. One marginalized group helping out another and trying to find a place in the world.
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Fighting Fear
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Macario De Souza
Starring:
Narrated by Joel Edgerton
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This feature-length docu-drama, told through the eyes of the two friends, Big Wave Pro-surfer Mark Mathews and MMA fighter Richie “Vas” Vaculik and filmed over three years, provides a unique and candid insight into the tumultuous life of two world-class athletes facing against-all-odds personal challenges.
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I'm Not Dead Yet
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Janine Hosking
Starring:
Chad Morgan, Tex Perkins
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The rollicking story of Chad Morgan, the politically-incorrect country singer with the donkey grin (known as "The Sheik of Scrubby Creek"). Narrated by Tex Perkins.
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Orchids: My Intersex Adventure
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Phoebe Hart
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When Phoebe Hart was growing up in Townsville, it took a long time for her to find out that she was different. At puberty, she was taken aside and told the bare minimum: that she had Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome—in plainer language, that she was intersex, a hermaphrodite. More shocks were to follow when she found out that her younger sister Bonnie had inherited the same condition. The sisters are pissed off, armed with a video camera, and determined to come to terms with who they are.
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Matthew Bate
Starring:
Eddie Guerriero, Mitchell Deprey, Raymond Huffman, Peter Haskett
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The most important recording in the 1990s grunge era wasn't made by some alt.rock star. It was a covert audio recording of two drunken men living in a small flat in San Francisco, who spent their available free time yelling, screaming, hitting and generally abusing each other. The phenomenon began in 1987 when Eddie and Mitch (two young punks from the midwest), moved next door to Peter Haskett (a flamboyant gay man), and Raymond Huffman (a raging homophobe).
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The First Interview
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Dennis Tupicoff
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The world's first media interview, shot in Paris in 1886, finally comes to life. Narrated by Agnès Varda.
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The Hungry Tide
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Tom Zubrycki
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Only metres above sea level, the nation of Kiribati is on the front line of climate change. Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, is passionate about her homeland and, despite her shyness, is determined to raise the world's awareness of its predicament. It’s a journey that takes her to the Copenhagen Climate Conference and a year later to Cancun. Meanwhile back in Kiribati fragile sea walls are crumbling, and storm tides are sweeping into villages. One day Maria receives news...
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The Tall Man
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Tony Krawitz
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Atmospheric, gritty and original, The Tall Man takes you into the courtrooms, the indigenous communities, and the police stations where the inescapable complexities of Australia’s racial politics are focused.This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later, lay dead in a watch-house cell.
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The Triangle Wars
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Rosie Jones
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An inspirational story for our times, THE TRIANGLE WARS is the story of the battle being waged between local government, big business and the community over the development of a tiny sliver of crown land on the foreshore of St Kilda. A microcosm of a much bigger story about power, values, compromise and transparency, THE TRIANGLE WARS tells the story through three men at the heart of the conflict: an eccentric politician, a celebrity photographer and a high-powered property developer. Combining
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Tide of Change
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Amie Batalibasi
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When Amie returns to the Solomon Islands for her grandmother’s funeral, she finds her village severely affected by increasingly high tides. The traditional community is on the brink of inevitable change
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