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A group of renegade surfers challenges the male-dominated professional surfing world for the shared goal of equality and change.

Jordan has missed the bus. And as any 15-year-old Aboriginal boy knows, he's not safe alone on the streets at night. Suddenly he is terrorised by a relentless cop, chasing him through the midnight streets of Western Sydney. But they are not alone... What's that sound? Is it a possum? A fruit bat? Or could it be a Drop Bear? When they find that they are both trapped in the lair of a vicious natural predator, they must put aside racial prejudice and work together to survive.

Dysfunctional truth rap and suspended youth - the final skate between two best friends

There is a new generation of warriors on Palm Island, a place with a dark history and a less than stellar reputation. They are fighting back taking the future into their own hands with the support of Uncle Ray - the man who has brought boxing back to Palm Island.

Based on the book John Maynard, "Fight for Liberty and Freedom: the Origins of Australian Aboriginal Activism"

Black Divaz follows the inaugural Miss First Nation pageant where six Aboriginal drag queens from around Australia battle it out over five days for the coveted crown.

Four grandmothers' find each other and start a national movement to place extended families as a key solution to the rising number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. They are not only taking on the system, they are changing it.

When a historic Yirrkala bark petition is found in Derby, Western Australia, the community begin the ceremony of guiding its journey back to Yolngu Country.

Follow the tale of the oldest culture still in existence coexisting with the oldest river in the world (Larapinta, commonly known as The Finke River).

Explores events from 1788 to the Bicentennial in 1988, the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope by over 30,000 Aboriginal people on the same day the Tall Ships were in Sydney Harbour. A reminder that white Australia has a black History.

Two young women, Kylene and Natasha, are on their journey to compete in 'The Arnolds', a bodybuilding competition held in Australia. An inspiring story of two friends involved in a controversial sport.

Trapped in a remote Caravan Park, little Elvis thinks up a scheme to break free, determined to make a better life for herself.

Rosemary Valadon is an award-winning Australian artist, now based in the historic town of Hill End. In the tradition of Grace Cossington Smith and Margaret Preston, she has reinterpreted a distinctly Australian femininity and domestic aesthetic. Valadon has done several series of works that seek to celebrate femininity and sensuality. Her Muses series, and more recently, Wicked Women, reinterpret myths and stereotypes of women in a way that captures a very contemporary feminism. This film explores Rosemary Valadon's life story, her influences and her practice. It traces her the major work - large triptych still-life's that capture the seasons of Hill End. Against the dramatic change of seasons, this film is a portrait of one of Australia's under-appreciated women artists and the Hill End community that has been a deep source of strength and creative inspiration for her.

Although tribal fighting has long been present in the Papua New Guinea highlands, the influx of modern automatic weaponry in the 1990s turned local disputes into swift lethal exchanges which threatened to permanently reshape highlands culture. Bootlegged copies of the American film Rambo circulated in remote communities, becoming a crude tutorial on the use of such weaponry. The influence of the film was so pronounced that the term Rambo is now used in Papuan dialects to describe hired mercenaries who are paid to support local combatants in violent tribal disputes. The services of Rambos were suddenly in high demand as a variety of M16s and Indonesian military weaponry found its way down the Sepik River through swap-laden smuggling routes. The automatic machinery has had a chilling effect on dispute resolutions. Obtaining an automatic rifle can become the ultimate ticket to regional power and tribes are going to great lengths to buy into this new system. The cultural knowledge of tribal fighting, which had been proudly handed down for tens of thousands of years, has exceedingly been replaced by a handful of steel machinery. Lost Rambos explores the impact and evolution of fighting through the recent history of Kompiam, a town buried deep in the northern region of the PNG highlands in Enga Province, a region renowned for intense tribal disputes. In recent years Kompiam has experienced several tribal fights with around 80 recorded deaths, not to mention destruction of local infrastructure and hundreds of houses burnt to the ground. Two tribes remain in active dispute with the Tinalapin tribe still occupying the land of its enemy the Sambe. This film unpacks the conflict by featuring voices from both tribes, including alternate viewpoints within the leadership of the Tinalapins. Characters include the War Leader (Pyaren Pyato) who convinced the tribe to fight, the head Warrior (Goden Lapyale) who led the fighters into battle and a Peacemaker (Joseph Lakai) who returns for the first time since the fighting began with a message of peace for his tribe. We also experience an alternate view from a Sambe family who have been displaced by the war, and are struggling to survive in exile having lost their land and many young tribesman. The four viewpoints allow for a nuanced perspective on fighting pushing beyond the stated causes of tribal fighting which is often blamed on disputes over land, women and pigs. Instead this film subtly interrogates the deeper causes alongside the impact of the weaponry, exploring the lack of government intervention and security services, the profound cultural value given to family loyalty, and the vast gender imbalance in the traditional highlands hierarchy. Lost Rambos unpacks tribal conflict from all angles to explore the complexities of a traditional practice rapidly drawn into the modern day.