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Young Women’s Dual Diagnosis Project

Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 30 minutes

This project is an educational tool for service providers about the needs of young women with drug and alcohol and/or mental health issues. The DVD explains what dual diagnosis is and how best to assist young women facing complex issues. Young women talk about what helped and what didn’t help when they sought assistance. There are also practical responses to commonly asked questions.

Commissioned by The Richmond Fellowship of NSW and created by FrenchBaker in collaboration with Iris Pictures.

Not in My House

Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 7 x 3 mins

Not in My House is a series of dramatised vignettes about how domestic violence harms women, children and relationships, regardless of cultural background. The DVD is part of a package of resources created by BCS Lifecare for use in Men’s Domestic Violence Behaviour Change Groups and in training professionals who encounter domestic violence as part of their work lives.

The stories are drawn from a wide cross-section of Australia society including Aboriginal women, newly arrived migrants and other cultural groups, all of them saying the same thing: “our stories of living with domestic violence need to be told”.

Written and Directed by John Janson-Moore

Take 1

Year of Production: 2011
Duration 13 minutes

Take 1 is a short drama designed to raise awareness among young people about respectful relationships and what abusive and controlling behaviour looks like. Commissioned by Baptist Community Services (NSW & ACT) the DVD is used as a discussion starter in the ‘Take 2′ respectful relationships workshops offered by BCS to secondary school students throughout NSW.

Directed and written by John Janson-Moore.

45 & Up healthy aging study

Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 7 mins

Assoc Prof Emily Banks at the Sax Institute

The 45 & Up study is the largest study of healthy aging ever undertaken in Australia, with a cohort group of 260,000 people aged 45 and over. The cohort group is managed by The Sax Institute in partnership with health institutions. Iris Pictures produced a short program to tell the human story of this ground-breaking study, featuring four members of the cohort group and four research projects currently underway.

Anti-Slavery Project

Year of Production: 2011
Duration: 3 x TVCs, 4 x 5-minute educational programs

The Anti-Slavery Project commissioned Iris Pictures to create a TV advertising campaign and a series of educational videos to raise awareness about slavery, extreme labour exploitation and trafficking in Australia. The theme of the campaign is ‘Slavery Happens Here’ and the Community Service Announcements are based on real experiences of people who have been trafficked to Australia and used as slaves.

Every One with a Story to Tell

Year of Production: 2009
Duration: 10 mins

UnitingCare Burnside’s Children Young People and Families group offers services to a wide range of people including young fathers and their children, Aboriginal families, people with mental illness and older people. This program is a window into some of these services and the people whose lives have been turned around and enriched by them.

Natural Fertility Service

Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 9 minutes

This program introduces CatholicCare’s natural fertility service and follows the stories of several families who have successfully used the method to plan their family and achieve pregnancy.

Does This Child Need Help?

Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 20 mins plus educational discussion-starters

This educational program was commissioned by Early Childhood Intervention Australia to help early childhood professionals to identify children with hidden disabilities. The program tells the story of four families whose child has benefited from early intervention. Educational triggers for early childhood students explain how to observe children, what to look out for and how to talk to families when you have concerns about their child’s development.

Family Dispute Resolution

Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 13 minutes

CatholicCare offers Family Dispute Resolution to separating families including parenting plans and negotiating settlement of property and financial matters. Iris Pictures created a docu-drama for CatholicCare clients using this service.

Family Relationship Centres

Year of Production: 2010
Duration: 10 minutes plus 8 x 2 minute web videos

Relationships Australia NSW commissioned a dramtised educational program about their Family Relationship Centres and the services they offer to families including counselling and mediation. A series of short web interviews explain the steps in Relationships Australia’s family dispute resolution process.

Welcome to the Southern Cross Care family

Year of production: 2010
Duration: 2 x 7 minutes
Residents and staff tell the Southern Cross Care story. Muriel is mad for the exercise class; Joan says pastoral care the most fulfilling job she has ever done and Barry is happier for her weekly visit. (more…)

Does This Child Need Help?

Year of production: 2010
Duration: 20 minutes

How do you identify children with hidden disabilities such as autism, global developmental delay and sensory impairments – and how do you raise the issue with parents and then work with them to maximise the child’s potential? (more…)

Accentuate the Positive

Year 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…)

Keeping Kids In Mind

Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 17 minutes
Told through the innocent eyes and ears of young children, Keeping Kids in Mind is a touching program that sets out to win the hearts and minds of parents who are going through separation and divorce. (more…)

Divorce Stories

Year 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.

NETS fundraiser

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Year of production: 2003
The documentary series Handle with Care is about the life-saving work of the Newborn and Paediatric Emergency Transfer Service (NETS). Using stories from the series, Iris Pictures cut together a short promotional program for NETS, which was shown at fundraising events. The video was successful in helping NETS raise $80,000 at fundraising events in 2003.

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

Year 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.

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