DOCUMENTARY

Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls

Year of production: 2012
Duration: feature/one-hour documentary

Developed by Iris Pictures and award-winning Writer/Director Juliet Lamont, Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls follows the fortunes of the six young women who are giving their all to gain success on the international music scene, as members of Myanmar’s first all-girl band.

The documentary was funded under Screen Australia’s Special Documentary program. It was one of a handful of projects selected in the 2011 ITVS funding round, out of 500 applications from 109 countries. It also won a spot at the prestigious Hot Docs pitching forum in Canada in May 2011.
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Accentuate the Positive

Accentuate The PositiveYear of Production: 2010
Duration: 60 minute documentary for ABC Compass, screening 2011

An epidemic of depression, anxiety and alienation is rife among teenagers in first world countries. A bold experiment is being trialled in Australia that offers a solution. (more…)

Anna’s Adventure

Anna DonaldAnna’s Adventure is a cross-media project that combines linear documentary with a non-linear interactive website to interrogate Anna’s journey as she grapples with the really big questions of existence. (more…)

About Women

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About women is a fascinating series that investigates the modern Australian woman in her many ages and stages of life – what she needs to thrive and survive in the 21st Century and the obstacles she faces on her life’s journey. (more…)

About Men

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Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 3 x 52 mins
About Men is a documentary series that explores the major life stages, transitions and experiences of boys and men living in Australia. (more…)

Roadtrip Nation

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Year of Production: 2008
Based on the highly successful US series, Roadtrip Nation Australia is an observational documentary series for SBS and PBS that follows three young Australians, Bruce, Kay and Brynn, on a rugged five-week journey around Australia as they seek to define their own road in life. (more…)

Parent Rescue

Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 6 x 25 mins
A fascinating series that looks at contemporary solutions to age-old parenting problems by exploring the work undertaken by Karitane; an innovative service that offers practical help to families overwhelmed by the challenges of raising young children.
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Growing Up & Going Home

Picture from Growing Up & Going Home pictureYear of Production: 2006
Duration: 52 minutes

“Growing Up & Going Home” is an observational documentary that gives a voice to Ethiopian sister and brothers, Eleni, Sisay, and Alemayehu, adopted ten years ago by an Australian family. The teenagers divulge their side of the adoption story, as they journey back to their homeland, and reconnect with the family and friends they left behind. (more…)

Maternity Unit

Year of Production: 2005
Duration: 52 minutes

Birth is a moment in life that has the power and mystique to move and change us. This universal rite of passage is not often experienced outside the intimate and privileged world of the family, and in some cultures outside the world of women. We go behind the closed doors of a hospital maternity unit to follow several women and their families as they experience pregnancy, the transforming moment of birth and a new life.
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Divorce Stories

Picture from Divorce StoriesYear of Production: 2005
Duration: 3 x 52 minutes
Awards:
2006 Logie Award Nominee
2006 Certificate of Merit, Documentary Series, Chicago, International Television Competition Hugo Awards
2005 Sydney Morning Herald Couch Potato Award, Best Local Documentary

This three-part series takes a close-up and personal look at divorce as people reveal their experiences, from marriage to breakup, conflict to compromise. (more…)

The Gifted Puzzle

Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 30 minutes
Educational documentary DVD for the Australian Association for Parents of Gifted and Talented Children. Funded by the Telstra Foundation.

The Hundredth Room

Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 20 minutes
A personal documentary about one woman’s journey in the first year after her partner’s untimely death from cancer, by filmmaker and psychotherapist Sarah Gibson. Combining actuality and animation, the film is a poetic exploration of the eighteen months following her partner Caroline’s death.

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In Limbo

Year of Production: 2002
Duration: 52 Minutes
Awards: 2004 Logie Award Nomine

In Limbo follows the story of a Vietnamese-Australian lawyer who is determined to see 2000 Vietnamese boat people stranded in the Philippines regain their lives, identities and homes. Hoi Trinh has been fighting for the rights of these people for more than five years. (more…)

From Korea with Love

Year of Production: 2002
Duration: 52 minutes
Awards:
2004 Logie Award Nominee
2002 Torino International Women’s Film Festival
2001 WOW Festival

The path to parenthood is never easy – especially when adopting from another country. Shot over a period of 2 years this is a warm and intimate portrait of lives about to change, the pain of the long wait, the reality of racism and the power of love. Follows the process for a young Australian couple adopting a Korean baby.

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Dr Fruit-loop goes to East Timor

Year of Production: 2001
Three Australian Clown doctors travel to East Timor to dispense smiles as medicine. SBS-TV
2001 Auburn International Children’s Film Festival.

Cervical Cytology Live Interactive Satellite program

Year of Production: 1995
A NSW Cancer Council initiative for rural doctors and health professionals.

Our Brother James

Image from Our Brother JamesYear of Production: 2000
Duration: 52 minutes
Awards:
2003 Centenary Medal for documentary script writing
2002 Nominee NSW Premier’s Literary Prize
2002 Nominee Critics Circle Award
2001 AWGIE Award
2001 Cork Film Festival

A documentary about youth suicide from a very personal perspective set in the rural community of Geraldton, Western Australia. (more…)

Chrissy

Year of Production: 1999
A young girl living with HIV learns to face her greatest fear of rejection, and find what she most wanted, the unconditional love and acceptance of her family.
Screened at 2000 Berlin Film Festival.

Emily’s Eyes

Year of Production: 1998
Documentary about a Chinese family with a profoundly deaf daughter who run a pizza take away in Sydney’s inner west. Broadcast on SBS-TV.
Awards:
1999 Most Popular Australian Documentary, Sydney Film Festival
1999 Finalist-Feature Category International, Documentary Association Awards, USA
1999 Highly Commended Dendy Awards, Sydney
1999 Winner Bronze Plaque Columbus International Film & Video Festival, USA
1999 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, USA
1999 Hot Springs Documentary Festival, USA
1999 Prix Leonardo Film & Video Festival, Italy
1999 St John’s International Women’s Film Festival, Canada

Inspired Lives

Year of Production: 1999
ABC-TV documentary for Compass about The Grail, a movement of women around the world joined together by a common faith. Told through the lives of five women using a mixture of archival footage and interviews. Shot on three continents.

Talk About It

Year of Production: 1997
Drama for women with intellectual disabilities about sexual assault. Actors with intellectual disabilities play the key roles.
Awards: 1997 Intercom Festival – Chicago. Awards in two categories.

Partners – Recommended Practice in Early Intervention

Year of Production: 1997
Video about family centred Early Intervention for children with disabilities. For Ageing and Disability Department.

Rockets & Rollerblades and, Snapshots & Signposts

Year of Production: 1997
Two programs for SANE (formerly Schizophrenia Association) for consumers and carers.

Moving on – Changes and Challenges

Year of Production: 1996
Two documentaries for the New Children’s Hospital Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit.

Women’s Health – Women’s Lives

Year of Production: 1996
A history and celebration of twenty years of women’s health centres.

Piece by Piece

Year of Production: 1995
Drama for Department Of Community Services
Silver Screen Award – Training and Education Category
29th U.S. International Film & Video Festival Award
1996 Finalist New York Festival
1996 Silver Mobie – Focus Producer’s Festival
Bronze Cindy – International Association of Audio Visual Communicators.

Vision of the New Kids

Year of Production: 1995
Two promotional shorts for the New Children’s Hospital, Westmead.

Recognising Sick Kids

Year of Production: 1995
Made for Postrgraduate Medical Council
Awards: Finalist New York Festival 1995

Understanding CJD

Year of Production: 1995
A current affairs style program for recipients of pituitary hormone treatment.

My Own Flesh & Blood

Year of Production: 1994
FFC/Accord documentary about the experiences of parents and children in the Accident & Emergency department of an inner-city children’s hospital.
Broadcast: SBS-TV, NHK Japan.
Awards: 1996 Logie Award Nominee.

Casemix – an introduction

Year of Production: 1993
Educational program introducing the concept of Casemix for the Commonwealth Department of Health.

A Family Affair

Year of Production: 1993
Video about what early intervention can do for children with disabilities. Produced for the Early Intervention Association, for health and childcare professionals

We’ve got a Future

Year of Production: 1993
Promotional video for the Autistic Association of NSW.

Booloobidja

Year of Production: 1993
Promotional program for UWS Aboriginal Education Centre.

Paediatric Triage

Year of Production: 1991
Observational documentary for the Casualty Department, Children’s Hospital Camperdown.

Skills for Life

Year of Production: 1991
Promotional documentary produced for the Royal NSW Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

The Heart of the Matter

Year of Production: 1990
Documentary for parents of children in Cardiac Intensive Care.

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Year of Production: 1989
Duration: 30 minutes
Documentary about medication for older people made for the Australian Pensioners and Superannuants Federation.

Work Safe – Play Safe

Year of Production: 1988
Duration: 18 minutes
Dramatised documentary for AIDS Unit, NSW Department of Health about safe sex practices for prostitutes. Education Department Study Guide for Side Track Theatre.

Having a Say

Year of Production: 1987
Duration: 22 minutes
Video program for residents in retirement accommodation, funded by the NSW Law Foundation.

Medicina Amara (Bitter Medicine)

Year of Production: 1987
Dramatised documentary about migrant women and tranquillisers produced for Leichhardt Women’s Health Centre.