INDIGENOUS COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT PACK

Classification: Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG Produced In: Australia Directed By: Various Produced By: Various
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Further to our on-going offer of an Indigenous Studies DVD Starter Pack, here are a further 10 titles to enhance the growth of your collection.
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Sport
THREE BOYS DREAMING (PG) 85 mins FREE STUDY GUIDE
A universal story about young dreams and ambitions as three Indigenous boys chase the dream of becoming football stars.
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History
BENNY AND THE DREAMERS (G) 54 mins
Reveals for the first time on film the Australian Aboriginal peoples' version of their first contact with white culture which was to change their traditional way of life forever.
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Sport
BLACK AND DUSTY (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 43 mins
Follows a group of Indigenous motor sports enthusiasts who compete in the Finke Desert Race - a 2-day event that crosses 500km of red desert in central Australia.
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Art/Craft
BUSH TOYS (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 23 mins
Full of humour and high spirits, this is a whimsical and historical journey into the art of bush toy making by young artists, using materials found amongst the discarded refuse around Aboriginal communities.
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Dreamtime
CROOKHAT AND THE KULUNADA (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 23 mins
Three Elders travel out to where a permanent spring feeds a large waterhole. They tell Dreamtime stories of the Rainbow Serpent, Kulunada, which lived in the waterhole, and also the violent past of the white settlement of the area.
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Health
CROSSING THE LINE (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 mins FREE STUDY GUIDE
When two young, non-Indigenous medical students go to work in a remote Aboriginal community, their professional precepts and personal ideas are deeply challenged.
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Art
EMILY IN JAPAN (PG) 82 mins FREE STUDY GUIDE
The full-length version of a film about Indigenous art and museum practice, through the story of the blockbuster exhibition of paintings by Emily Kame Kngwarreye which toured Japan and attracted record crowds. Includes 25 mins not seen on TV.
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Politics
INTERVENTION 2 YEARS ON (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 mins
An Aboriginal perspective on the effect of the Australian Government’s Intervention legislation, over its first two years of operation. Not seen on TV.
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Stolen Generation
WHY ME? (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 mins
Explores the human costs of the government policy which removed children from their families and country. The stories of five stolen children told using powerful period re-enactments. Not seen on TV.
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Follow-up to Women of the Sun
WOMEN OF THE SUN 25 years later (PG) 80 mins FREE STUDY GUIDE
A powerful documentary about the lives of the women who played leading roles in the ground-breaking drama series, WOMEN OF THE SUN.

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