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- Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster's dream of dancing comes true when she gets into a top dance academy. She soon realizes dancing is only half the battle.
- A science show hosted by kids for kids, showing that science can be done at home in everyday life.
- Laughs, Lunacy and Logic - wait, scratch that last part - conspire in this situation comedy series about a larger-than-life little goldfish named Gasp, whose imagination is as big as his heart.
- The film covers the period from just before Curtin became Prime Minister until the return of the 6th and 7th Divisions to Australia at the start of the Pacific war.
- This film tells the reality of Australian parrots, and suffering in order to live
- Jimmy Little's Gentle Journey traces the extraordinary life and times of this popular and inspirational Aboriginal entertainer and activist. From a tragic childhood to star of the Australian popular music scene, Jimmy Little has proven to be both a survivor and a pioneer. Archival footage, anecdotes and interviews with his contemporaries shed light on the social and political issues of the last 65 years in Australia. It is a deeply moving journey that defines and transcends the story of contemporary Aboriginal expression.
- A one half hour documentary about Australian men's obsession with their sheds.
- The story of the feud between two football teams that turned into a war about class and alleged corruption.
- Follow three teams - the Hunter Thickheads, the Hunter Home-Brewers and the Whacked-Out Woodswallows as they travel up to 500 kilometres from the desert to the sea - in their attempt to spot more species than any other team.
- Three mates with their own individual skills deconstruct history by reconstructing the devices that made it. This fun, lively and fast paced 'hands on history' show reveals some surprising insights into the past.
- Over the last decade in Australia there's been a huge growth in the handmade, the locally produced, the artisanal and the small scale. Is it a reaction against technology or the product of it?
- What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? Guts? Brilliance? Eccentricity? This film travels behind the scenes of the world's most prestigious prize and into the minds of two of the people who have reached this pinnacle of excellence. In the most isolated capital city in the world, Perth, Western Australia, two scientists are interrupted while enjoying their fish and chips lunch by a phone call from Stockholm, Sweden. They have just been informed that they have been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine and could they make it to the awards ceremony? Australian scientists Barry Marshall and Robin Warren journey to the prize-winners' podium is more than just a trip to the opposite side of the world to sub-zero temperatures, cultural pomp and extreme Swedish scheduling-it has been a career of trial and error, endless research and Aussie-battler-style stubborn determination. Today, this odd couple of science travel the globe as heroes-ambassadors of the science world-but it was 23 years ago in a modest hospital laboratory in Perth, that Marshall and Warren discovered a bacterium that survived in the human stomach that they called Helicobacter pylori. They believed that this bacterium, not stress, caused gastritis and peptic stomach ulcers, much to the chagrin of the medical world, which at the time scorned them. After years of careful observation, luck and persistence, they finally had the breakthrough they needed, but not before Marshall infected himself, using his own body as a guinea pig to test their theory. Something that a pathologist noticed as a tiny blue line under a microscope was now a documented new species. The questioning minds of Marshall and Warren have revolutionised the medical community's approach to treatment and dramatically improved the health prospects of millions of people by identifying the real cause of peptic stomach ulcers. This film follows Marshall and Warren's curious and unpretentious lives, capturing their off-beat humour, the people that surround them, struggles, mateship and their paradigm-shifting finding to reveal the profound impact, wonder and excitement of groundbreaking scientific discovery. Through them and other Nobel laureates, we discover what it's really like to win. We also celebrate Australia's proud history of Nobel Prize for Medicine recipients.
- In 1945-46 Indonesians, Indians, Chinese and Australian trade unions blockaded Dutch shipping in Australia to defend the newly declared Republic of Indonesia. Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens resigned as Film Commissioner for the Netherlands East Indies and made 'Indonesia Calling', a film documenting the trade union's actions. This new, feature documentary revisits Australia's early relationship to it's northern neighbor, Indonesia, and the impact of Joris Ivens' small film on an emerging Australian film culture. Made with passionate commitment, 'Indonesia Calling' provoked a covert response from the state, while helping to create a fertile ground for independent documentary in Australia.
- Brisbane indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee has been selected to exhibit at the prestigious 53rd Venice Biennale. Vernon's evocative work challenges past and current injustices to aboriginal people and delves into beach culture and race issues surrounding the 2005 Cronulla riots. How will his work be received by the rest of the world?
- A story about a girl who collects cups, 5 useless lovers, a heart being thrown out a window, hair cutting as a metaphor for suffering, the heroine jumping off rooftops and surviving, a fox, severe amounts of jogging, an oak tree that wants to be a Japanese flame tree, receiving therapy from an ancient bird and finally: dying... as a means to living.
- Six short films about daily life in rural and urban Thailand produced by Film Australia and screened multiple times on ABC-TV
- This AFC-funded 'microdoc' cheerfully paints a backyard portrait of the filmmaker's Italian family and their passion for growing tomatoes. Their vegetable patch becomes symbolic both of memories of their home country and of the life they have made in Australia.
- For the first time ever, all three of Australia's commercial TV networks unite to simulcast this historic telethon and concert. All proceeds from the telethon go to World Vision Australia and aid of the 2004 Southern Asia Tsunami disaster. Includes a mammoth lineup of Aussie and international stars and personalities.
- Eleven short films about daily life in rural and urban Indonesia, from North Sumatra to Bali. Screening: ABC-TV