All titles produced in 2002
30 titles
Australian Rules (2002)
In an isolated South Australian fishing town, the only thing that connects two communities – the whites and the blacks – is football. Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and ...
Australian Story – Of Droughts and Flooding Rains (2002)
This is the story of a man so obsessed by an idea that it has consumed his life and almost destroyed his family. Peter Andrews’s idea is that ...
Australians at War – The Thin Khaki Line (2002)
During the Second World War, the outlook for Australia in 1942 was grim. When the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbour, only a ragtag group of conscripts was still ...
Bambaloo – Bird in a Boat (2002)
Bambaloo is a mixed live-action, puppetry and animation narrative based show for preschoolers. Characters in the world of Bambaloo include the imaginative and playful host Sam (Angela Kelly) ...
Beneath Clouds (2002)
A visually poetic feature film about two youths who in trying to find themselves, momentarily find each other on the road to Sydney.
Black Talk (2002)
A short drama about two cousins Tim (Russell Page) and Scott (Laurence Clifford) who are temporarily reunited when city-based Tim returns to visit his family.
Child Soldiers (2002)
There is a minimum of 300,000 child soldiers in the world. The documentary takes an intimate look at children fighting in Uganda, Sudan, Myanmar, Colombia and Sierra Leone. ...
Compass – Saving Claymore (2002)
Fire-bombings, stealing and vandalism were the norm in the Sydney suburb of Claymore, where residents lived in fear and isolation. Then the Catholic Church moved in and introduced ...
Crackerjack (2002)
Jack Simpson (Mick Molloy), a loud-mouthed slob, discovers a talent for lawn bowls when he’s called on to justify his membership of an inner-city bowls club. He’s been ...
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Sydney, 1969. Barry Ryan (Bryan Brown), affable family man and gangster, controls most of the city’s booming poker machine trade, when the US mafia decides it wants to ...
Don’t Blame the Koalas - Episode 1, Fate Steps In (2002)
When Mrs Medlow (Eileen McEwan) dies, Kate King (Basia A’Hern) and her brothers Mark (Shaun Loseby) and Chris (Henry Nixon) discover that some unknown English relatives have inherited ...
The Fairytale Police Department – Black Day for Snow White (2002)
Intrepid real-world Detective Chris Anderson and her bumbling partner Detective Johnny Legend have been transferred to Fairytale land, and it seems like a dream job. There is certainly ...
Flat (2002)
A short drama about the day in a life of a young teenager, who captures Alice Springs through a video camera given to her by her mostly absent ...
Fond Memories of Cuba (2002)
Documentary maker David Bradbury visits Cuba to report on what the socialist revolution of 1959 has delivered for Cubans in 2002. The film has two distinct parts. The ...
The Foundation 1963–1977 (2002)
A documentary that intercuts interviews with historical footage to tell the history of The Foundation of Aboriginal Affairs, an organisation significant in the push for the 1967 referendum ...
Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002)
A documentary about the career of Indigenous actor, dancer, and cultural delegate, David Gulpilil, using interview as well as archival footage.
In Limbo (2002)
The documentary follows Australian-Vietnamese lawyer Hoi Trinh, as he attempts to secure Australian citizenship for 2,000 Vietnamese boat people who fled to the Philippines when the Vietnam War ...
Legacy of the Silver Shadow – The Feral Element (2002)
Four kids’ lives are changed forever when they discover the secret lair of The Silver Shadow (Tayler Kane). The Silver Shadow is a long-forgotten superhero from the 1950s ...
Making Venus (2002)
Making Venus is a ‘making of’ documentary about the production of a low budget feature film. Initially, the documentary sets out to record the development, funding, production and ...
Message Stick – Kurtal: Snake Spirit (2002)
Spider, an 80-year-old Indigenous elder and Wangkatjungka man, returns to the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia to perform a cleansing ceremony at a sacred jila, a water ...
Mimi (2002)
A short drama about a young Western art collector who gets more than she’s bargained for when she purchases Indigenous art pieces that include a Mimi statue and ...
Outback Opera, La Boheme Tour (2002)
Opera Australia’s OzOpera Tour took the opera La Boheme to country Victoria and South Australia. The camera follows the 22-stop tour and records the singers, musicians and technical ...
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
In Western Australia in 1931, three mixed-race Aboriginal children are forcibly abducted from their mothers at Jigalong, in the eastern Pilbara. Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi), 14, her sister ...
Seeking Asylum (2002)
A report on the status and treatment of asylum seekers in 2002. The documentary uses archival footage, interviews with asylum seekers, people involved in care capacities and politicians. ...
Shit Skin (2002)
A short drama about a young man who takes his grandmother back to the place of her childhood so that she may reconnect with her surviving family.
Snake Dreaming (2002)
A short drama written and performed by Indigenous children about the Stolen Generations. Snake Dreaming is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media ...
The Tracker (2002)
In rough bush country in 1922, an Aboriginal tracker (David Gulpilil) leads three white men in the hunt for a black fugitive. The senior policeman in charge (Gary ...
Trespass (2002)
A documentary about Yvonne Margarula and the Mirarr people’s fight against the mining companies. Trespass is part of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series produced by Central Australian Aboriginal Media ...
Turn Around (2002)
A romantic comedy about a young man who fantasises about a liaison with a stranger, yet fails to see the real woman before him.
