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Mimicking the hyperbolic rhetoric of today’s copyright cops, Hollywood Burn pits a righteous league of video pirates against the evil tyrant Moses and his Copyright Commandments. Determined to alter the present by changing the past, the pirates travel back to 1955 to construct the ultimate weapon: an Elvis Presley video-clone. Part sci-fi + rom com + biblical epic + action movie, this free-culture manifesto adopts the tactical responses of the parasite, feeding off the body of Hollywood and inhabiting its cinematic structures and codes. The unwitting all-star cast includes Elvis Presley, Charlton Heston, Monkey, Batman, Bette Davis, Jaws, Jesus, The Hulk, The Hoff and the Ghostbusters.

The greats of Australian Football have shared their secrets.

Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian tunnel below, trying to earn a living. But her earnings are meager, and to make things worse, the new security guard, Joe, is trying to confiscate her fiddle. While Betty dreams of fame and fortune, Joe dreams of earplugs – something’s got to give!

A barber welcomes a most unusual customer. The Haircut is a tale about vanity, delusion, and how the customer is always right.

Victoria Achut battled her way through medical school and escaped a civil war in Sudan, but her biggest struggle yet has been re-starting life in the 'lucky country' with three children, an absent husband and mounting bills.

Two goofy Australian musicians take to the American Blues Trail to confront the mysterious legend of the crossroads. A search for the true soul of the Blues begins, as two friends discover they are facing a crossroads in their own lives.

Rainforests hold the key to the secret of life on our planet. They are the most abundant and diverse land environments on earth. Not only do they safe guard the genetic bounty of our past, they also hold the very key to the future of our world. Rainforest – The Secret of Life captures rare and fascinating wildlife sequences, including the mating rituals of lyrebirds and bowerbirds, and explores the intricate web of life that evolved in these rainforests. It also lead to the recent scientific discovery of the greatest secret of all – how rainforests form part of a vast global system that regulates the world’s climate.

A behind-the-scenes documentary following Australian rock band Inflight during the creation of their 2005 album So This Is Love. Featuring frontman David O’Reilly and the band in studio sessions, the film offers song breakdowns, recording footage, and commentary on the writing process. Distributed by Planet Blue Pictures.

Dare to play the game? Just one shot won't hurt.

In a disused hospital pantry in the 1940s, an Australian doctor discovered an astonishing treatment for bi-polar disorder (or manic-depression, as it was then known). It would change the way we think about mental illness and mark the beginning of psychopharmacology - using drugs to manage psychiatric conditions. It would take 20 years of struggle before lithium treatment was finally accepted, but the scientists and psychiatrists who followed Cade's lead persevered. Their work has meant a chance at stability for hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and lithium remains the benchmark for bi-polar treatment today.

Toby yearns for a life like any other eight-year-old kid, but his mentally disabled father is a constant reminder that life for Toby will never be normal.

A highly elliptical and tense story about an abduction, set in the Blue Mountains in NSW.

A dog falls in love with Chinatown, but begins to believe he is on the menu.

Five stories of Luke's experiences with love in his life. Each story shows a variation of sexual power and its abuse which become a motif of Luke's life. The film is structured around this motion of a musical fugue.

Our friends, who are driving down the coast for a holiday, have their plans interrupted when a man, gagged and bound, jumps in their car. They are presented with a difficult choice: help the stranger escape his captors or leave the man to his inevitable fate. Their choice sets off a chain of events as the stranger is found dead and the four friends are implicated for murder. With police, mobsters, politicians, and a fruitier all after them, the guys can trust no-one...not even each other.

The Angels were one of Australia's greatest ever live rock bands. Their legendary concert from Narara on Australia Day in 1983 has never been on DVD. This special edition 2 DVD set features the band in full flight performing all their biggest hits, and features 5.1 sound and a newly recorded audio commentary by Doc Neeson. Disc two is Beyond Salvation Live, recorded live on the band's Beyond Salvation Tour in 1990. Live at Narara was Australia's highest-selling music video release for many years, and the DVD release is sure to be a hit.

Jim's past and present are irreconcilable. Jim lives haunted by the emotional aftermath of his past. His wife, Louise knows nothing of his former life, but Jim's past and present meet when Louise is confronted with the reality of Jim's world - his life with Catherine. Jim is taken back to the past, to relive what destroyed his future with Catherine. He has to confront the veracity of the moment - what happens when someone kills, but no one is to blame?

The untold stories of six Australian army nurses who served at the only Australian field hospital in the Vietnam War.

High Performance Imports checks out Tokyo Auto Salon 2002, tours Mine's factory and demonstrates drift action from Mitsui Mike plus an update on the HPI project car tuning.

It's time for wiggling, giggling, moving and grooving around the clock as The Wiggles sing and dance to keep their sleepy friend Jeff awake long enough to join the show! This DVD features 18 songs like Wake Up Jeff!, Romp Bomp A Stomp, I Can Do So Many Things and Guess What?. Children will love dancing and singing with Greg, Murray, Anthony and of course, waking up Jeff!

The town is abuzz over the upcoming wedding of Max and Deborah, but the girls have problems of their own to deal with.

A man, a woman, and some first date nerves - sometimes just being human is embarrassing!

The once celebrated graphic designer Paul Andrews has fallen from grace. Battling against the demands of vacuous clients, deprived of his voice, he descends into an obsessive and distorted search for creative expression.

Google: Behind the Screen is a documentary film about Google, Inc. from 2006, directed by IJsbrand van Veelen.

'We sincerely hope this new music from us to you makes you feel like dancing! Putting the songs together wasn't so hard, criteria…well, the music had to make you start tapping your feet, start nodding your head and make you start smiling like you had just eaten your grandmother’s homemade biscuits, you know what I mean…joy! So let's get dancing everyone, happy wiggling!' – Anthony Wiggle The Wiggl

A documentary about making the feature film "Ten Canoes". It is May, 2005 in Central Arnhem Land: 'We are making a movie. The story is their story, those that live on this land, in their language, and set a long time before the coming of the Balanda, as we white people are known. For the people of the Arafura Swamp, this film is an opportunity, maybe a last chance to hold on to the old ways. For all of us, the challenges are unexpected, the task beyond anything imagined. For me, it is the most difficult film I have made, in the most foreign land I've been to...and it is Australia.' - Rolf de Heer

Dark, gothic, murderous.

In 1978, Tom Lewis appeared in the Australian feature film, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own, a young, restless man of mixed heritage, struggling for a foothold on the edge of two cultures. Tom's mother is a traditional Indigenous woman of southern Arnhem Land, his father a Welsh stockman who he never really knew. Yellow Fella is a journey across the land and into Tom's past, as he attempts to find the resting place of his father and to finally confront the truth of his most inner feelings of love and identity.

This documentary follows an Ethical and Environmental expert from Nokia as she travels to China to inspect the facilities under contract to her company.

Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.

A heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty and gratitutous ultra violence as Pelican Boy and his undead bird take on pelican hating Neo Nazi Pirates.

Old fashioned riddles and answers are flashed on the screen, together with non-stop film clips of vintage comedy routines in the background. Cameos from Abbott and Costello, The Three Stooges, and many more.

Join Scott, Yon and Gatesy as the attempt to tell a very simple story and fail miserably. Comic and Musical Geniuses the may be, but whoever let them near a theatre should have thought it through.

A loner and his dog return home on the day of his brother's wedding to repair the past, but he learns in order to make amends he must leave a piece of himself behind.

Two people from two countries who once shared a common experience.

Five passengers encounter a mysterious woman on a train. While we strain to hear their whispers, we are confronted by the passengers' reactions. Dark and secretive, this journey will leave you with questions playing on your mind.

Cicada is the immersive story of a five-year-old child who witnessed a murder. Daniel P Jones confronts a traumatic memory in an incendiary, visceral monologue.

Carl Barron’s topics jump from one to the other and back again, until you find yourself helpless with laughter. What a show this was; a mixture of stand up, musical attempts and crazy facial expressions. Barron captured his audience from the word “go”. People were laughing so hard they were either crying or nearly falling out of their chairs.

Join the all conquering international king of observations as he serves up part two in Whatever Comes Next... Features over an hour of his award-winning show plus special behind-the-scenes footage taking you on a journey you will never forget. You get free piano lessons, heaps of bonus features and a live menu - you even get to see Troy in this one! So sit back, grab a cuppa tea or an orange juice and feel part of the audience for a night of classic Carl Barron.

Two Aussie hicks drive a masked man out into the middle of the desert and to kill him, but things don’t quite go to plan.

Love can be difficult at the best of times, and the remarkable Blacktown is a disarmingly honest tale of love-against-the-odds. Office secretary Nikki (Nikki Owen) is disillusioned with her fraught, ‘sometime’ relationship with her married boyfriend, Peter. Emotionally scarred by the dysfunctional relationship, she all but gives up on the possibility of finding anything more meaningful. But in the wake of a torturous and disturbing blind date, Nikki meets Tony (Tony Ryan), a “black fella on a white bus”. Despite their obvious differences and Nikki’s disillusionment, the charismatic Tony shows Nikki that there is indeed room for love and romance in the desperate world of Blacktown. (Madman Entertainment)

The planet is being rained on by countless trouble making schoolboy aliens, so a group of legendarily powerful epic people all run around kicking ass, only to converge on the aliens target; the prison bus. Alas, they are too late! The boys in the bus have transformed into the Violence Kings, and go on a bloody rampage, devastating the world.

Experimental video by Peter Newman.

A captivating step back in time, Pozieres explores the small village in Northern France which, during the Great War in 1916, was the setting of one of the bloodiest battles in history, a twentieth century tragedy. The village was stormed and captured by Australians and became key to the success of the Battle for the Somme. But in less than seven weeks they suffered 23,000 casualties.

When a man's mother fails to pick him up from the supermarket, he decides to walk home. What should have been a brief stroll, soon becomes a nightmarish battle with a faulty trolley. Our man becomes lost and embarks upon a journey of grand proportions.

Gabriel, an imaginative six-year-old, has developed a close relationship with the ants he's keeping in his ant farm. When one of them stops moving, he asks his mother questions about love, life and death for the first time. After listening closely to his mom’s distracted response, Gabriel's unique interpretation leads him to go to great lengths in caring for the soul of his ant, making sure it gets into heaven. Eager to witness the deceased ant's passage, Gabriel embarks on a self-appointed quest and is rewarded.

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

An extraordinarily insightful and intimate exploration of the social and cultural landscape of India's most elite boys' boarding school. In following the boys' daily routines and dramas, the film also affords us a rare glimpse at processes of postcolonial Indian identity formation.

Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the altar – the trial bubbles over with emotion, humour, and downright chaos, leaving the jury divided. This Opera Australia performance was recorded in 2005.

A young man is surprised by what he discovers in his first trip to the baths.

On March 15, 2004, Richard Moir underwent an operation for Parkinson's Disease. Called Deep Brain Stimulation, electrodes are placed in the brain that are powered by batteries placed in the chest. The current 'zaps' bad signals in the brain. This film gives you an insight into the daily life of a patient with Parkinson's Disease, which is a view you don't get as a doctor in a clinical practice.

Girl in a Mirror documents the work of 1970's photographer Carol Jerrems, in a life tragically cut short. Drawing from hundreds of her photographs, the film traces the passionate and exuberant course that Jerrems took through this turbulent decade.

Life can be a little different through the eyes of an animated character.

A young girl is trying to relate to her grandmother's death which quickly becomes more than a personal loss.

It is estimated that today 80 per cent of Indigenous Australians live in urban environments. What impact is urbanisation having on Indigenous Australians and what does this mean for the future of Aboriginality?

Filmed in Sydney, The Dissociatives preformed to a sell out crowd all their songs from their as yet one and only album. An interesting fact was that the track listing performed on stage was identical to the CD order.

A behind the scenes look at the Cirque du Soeil show Alegria on tour in Australia.

During the Sydney Olympics, a young drag queen runs her own race.

Dan Freeman an obsessive UFO Hunter roams the Nevada desert around AREA 51 searching the skies for contact, but alone in the desert he awakens to a deeper mystery.

COFFEE CRAZY is a fun and exciting journey with Australia’s WORLD CHAMPION Barista PAUL BASSETT to discover the world’s perfect cup of coffee!