NINGLA-A'NA 

To mark Invasion Day 2024 we've got our legendary tent embassy documenatry NINGLA-ANA in cinemas all round the country. See it the way it was meant to be seen - on the big screen.

NINGLA-ANA Screenings January 2024

Nova Carlton (VIC):                             5pm Friday January 26^th
                                                            5pm Sunday January 28^th

Royal Castlemaine (VIC)                    2.30pm Friday January 26^th

Dendy Newtown (NSW):                    2.15 Saturday January 27^th

Dendy Canberra (A.C.T.):                    2.15 Saturday January 27^th

Dendy Coorparoo (QLD):                    2.15 Saturday January 27^th 

Wallis Mitcham (SA)                           1pm Friday Januray 26th
                                                            1pm Saturday January 27th
                                                            1pm Sunday January 28th

 We've several great movies dealing with the struggle for social justice for Aboriginal Australians. NINGLA-A'NA, TWO LAWS & PROTECTED are unique insights into the struggle and available on DVD from our catalogue.

SAM WATSON
- The Street Fighting Years -

We're pleased to announce delivery of our latest production.  NITV have just taken delivery of SAM WATSON The Street Fighting Years and are hopefully planning a November broadcast to coincide with the anniversary of the Aboriginal activist's death.  

In this exclusive record, Sam looks back at the revolutionary years of the 1970s and 80s - a time when social revolution was shaping internaitonal landscape.

Sam Watson was a leading fighter for social justice for black Australians and one of the leading figures in the establishment of the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Aboriginal Medical Service in Queensland.  He was also one of the central figures at the Aboriginal tent Embassy in Canberra.  This was arguably the most potent political action ever undertaken by Aborigines in the twentieth century.  He and Denis Walker established the Black Panther Party of Austalia in Brisbane in 1972 in an atmosphere which can only be descirbed as oppressive.  Under the extreme right wing junta of Joh Bjelke-Peteresen Queensland in 1972 resembled more a third world dictatorship than a responsible Westminster parliamentary democracy.  

Sam and his colleagues were spied upon, followed and harrassed by Queensland Police and the Australian Scurity and Intelligence Service (ASIO).

Their connections to the Communist Party of Australia made them prime targets.  The Communist Party were the only mainstream Australian party to support landrights for Aborigines and had been instrumental in helping the establishment of the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra.  

Using previously unseen ASIO surveillance photographs this is an intimate portrait of the man, his wry wit and intelligence.  

We'll announce time and date when NITV have scheduled the film.

October 6, 2020

THE YEAST IS REDClick the cover to download

Now, for the first time comes a seering tale of revolution, sex and Gestetner machines.   Torn from the pages of life, this recently discovered text, lifts the lid on the revolutionaries, cadres and part time insurrectionists holed up in The Bakery in Melbourne during the late 1960s. With every move watched by the security services and the psycho sexual pressure reaching boiling point, this explosive tale is an unforgettable journey into the dark byways of dialectic materialism.  From the pen of hard hitting scribe and historian Ken Mansell here for your pleasure is the illustrated, digital, interactive edition of The Yeast Is Red.  You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll stare in wonder at the adventures of the Monash Labor Club. Using previous unseen research materials from our Award winning TV series PERSONS OF INTEREST, this unique document is free to down load, its even got end notes.  In exchange we want you to buy the DVD of our series. Do yourself a favour and buy PERSONS OF INTEREST here and maintain the rage.

Tribute to cinematographer
Michael Edols
from Haydn Keenan

Michael Edols was the man who gave our first feature film it's distinctive look.  While the rest of the Australian film industry wass plodding through wide brown historical melodramas, we were more interested in what was happening internationally. From Ken Loach to Haskell Wexler, the verite school was in the ascendancy and Michael became the pre-eminent Australian exponent of getting the camera into the action.  He died suddenly last month and a tribute was organised by local film makers.  Here is the video tribute from Smart St's Haydn Keenan to the man who shot our Award winning first feature film 27A.