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Environmental impact docos – a playlist

Contributor, Wednesday, 18th November 2020 - Documentary Australia Foundation shines a spotlight on some of the most powerful documentaries on the environment and climate change, and where you can watch them. Using film as …

Doco of the month: In My Blood It Runs

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 14th May 2020 - In My Blood It Runs is a moving portrayal of what it is like as an Aboriginal child growing up in Australia today. Director Maya Newell talks to Wendy Williams about why it was a story that…

Doco of the month: Backtrack Boys

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 10th October 2019 - What impact can one man and his dog jumping team have on the lives of young people doing it tough in the bush? A profound one, Catherine Scott tells Wendy Williams, as part of a series profiling…

Stories That Work: Documentary as a powerful tool to spark social change

Contributor, Thursday, 12th September 2019 - In today’s fast-moving world, documentary stands-out as a unique and powerful tool to educate ourselves and spark social change. Stories are an integral part of human culture – …

Doco of the month: The Leunig Fragments

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 9th July 2019 - Who is Michael Leunig? Wendy Williams talks to Kasimir Burgess about his new film The Leunig Fragments and why despite being at the centre of the doco the famous cartoonist remains …

Doco of the month: Ghosthunter

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 18th April 2019 - The team behind the award-winning documentary Ghosthunter talk to Wendy Williams about the film’s impact and how a story about ghosts became an exploration of the impact of childhood…

It’s time to change the narrative

Contributor, Tuesday, 9th April 2019 - The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) has announced its 2019 program of over 50 films and events. The festival will create a public counterbalance of positivity, empathy…

Transitions Film Festival Presents Visions for a Better World

Contributor, Tuesday, 5th February 2019 - The eighth annual Transitions Film Festival returns to Cinema Nova this February with another inspiring line-up of world-changing films. Showcasing local and international documentaries…

Documentary Australia Foundation Celebrates Ten Years of Storytelling For Social Impact

Contributor, Thursday, 25th October 2018 - As Documentary Australia Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary, it wants to collaborate with the not-for-profit sector to help NFPs use storytelling to achieve their aims…

Putting a Human Face on the Refugee Experience

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 13th June 2017 - Filmed over 10 years in Wagga Wagga, Constance on the Edge is an unflinchingly honest portrayal of one refugee family’s resettlement story in regional Australia. The documentary,…

Documenting a David-and-Goliath Battle

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 6th September 2016 - The Opposition tells the story of a David-and-Goliath battle over land in Papua New Guinea, with community leader Joe Moses at the heart of the story in a fight to save a four-generation…

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