When Yuma and Kyanna meet up in the central Australian town of Alice Springs, they realise they could be long lost twins. They decide to trade places, with Kyanna heading to a beachside house in Sydney and Yuma trekking out to a remote Indigenous community. It’s supposed to be only for a night, but then things get tricky, and the fun starts …
Local DJ Kenny realises his job at the community radio station is about more than just playing music. Kenny jokes that his Green Bush show is broadcast to a ‘captive’ audience – namely the local prison. While taking requests from those on the inside and out, Kenny has to cope with the results of a wild night outside and learn his place in the circle of violence.
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When Steve goes to pick up his Aunty so they can go to the football grand final, he encounters a problem… She only travels in one kind of car.
5 minute drama
Director: Dena Curtis
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“You can pick your mates but you can’t pick your family.”
Cold Turkey explores the relationship of two brothers against a back drop of manipulative mind games. Shane’s brother Robby is leaving for a job in the opal fields of Coober Pedy. Feeling abandoned Shane plots a way to join his brother but better yet for his brother to stay in Alice Springs. Urging Robby to hit the town on their last night together Shane takes his brother on a dark emotional ride where Robby has to decipher fact from fiction. A story of disempowerment and the breaking of a spirit, in the name of “brotherly love”.
“Snake Dreaming is a story written and acted by young people. The simplicity of the storytelling as well as the camera angles used in this short film give the viewer the strong impression of the event of children being stolen being told from a child’s point of view. Snake Dreaming is a story passed on to the young by the elders, and during the production of this short film, the elders also imparted cultural knowledge to the children, for instance how to make humpies, and other important information.
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A young albino Aboriginal girl (Melissa Middleton) from a convent dormitory, escapes to return to her mother and rightful place in the world. Her story unfolds in flashback during this journey.