CAAMA

Ronin Films is very pleased to be working in association with CAAMA Productions to promote and market their outstanding catalogue of documentaries and dramas by some of Australia's leading Indigenous filmmakers.

Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) is an organisation founded in 1980, and owned by the Aboriginal people of Central Australia. It is dedicated to the social, cultural and economic advancement of Aboriginal people, and accordingly it has a mandate to promote Aboriginal culture, language, dance, and music while generating economic benefits in the form of training and employment. The Association is responsible for a diverse range of media products that engender pride in Aboriginal culture, and informs and educates the wider community of the richness and diversity of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia.

CAAMA Productions is the largest Indigenous production house in Australia. The company is based in Alice Springs and was established by the CAAMA Group in 1988, to perform the function of a commercial film and television production house for the newly established Imparja Television, a remote area commercial broadcast service, also based in Alice Springs. As a professional film, television and creative facility, CAAMA Productions supports Indigenous producers, directors, camera crews and editors and has close ties with local Aboriginal people and communities.


The successful documentary series, NGANAMPA ANWERNKENHE is a collaboration between CAAMA Productions and Imparja Television, and between 4 and 6 short documentaries are made for the series each year. This remarkable series, which celebrated its 21st birthday in 2008, has served as a showcase for Indigenous filmmaking talent, with contributions from such filmmakers as Warwick Thornton, Ivan Sen, Beck Cole and Priscilla Collins.

CAAMA Productions has also produced documentaries for national and overseas networks including the Seven and Nine Networks, the ABC, SBS, National Geographic, Channel 4 and CBC.

CAAMA has also produced dramas including the award winning short films COLD TURKEY, GREEN BUSH and MY COLOUR, YOUR KIND. The company also collaborated on Warwick Thornton's first feature, the award-winning SAMSON AND DELILAH (2009). Television series include DOUBLE TROUBLE, the first Aboriginal children's television drama series to be produced for the national Nine Network and Disney Channel; music series such as PMARRA COUNTRY for National Indigenous Television (NITV), SPIN FX and CORROBOREE ROCK, and the magazine programs GROUNDED and YEYEKERTE for NITV.