Documentary Productions

LIVING SAFELY

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are three times more likely to die from injury and accident than other Australians. … more →

REMEMBER ME

2011. 56mins. IN PRODUCTION. A young Polish woman’s dramatic journey from a Siberian Gulag to safety in Australia.  Award winning … more →

WRONG SIDE OF THE BUS A video trailer is available for this title

2009. 56mins. ABC Compass program. Professor Sidney Bloch, determined to confront his guilt for colluding with Apartheid, returns to South … more →

OUTBACK HEALERS AND HEROINES

2010. 26mins. SBS. Stories of three women doctors who are passionately committed to their rural practice. Presented by Norman Swan. … more →

The STRONG Series A video trailer is available for this title

2010. 6 x 26 mins. SBS, NITV. START  STRONG,  KEEP SAFE, STAY STRONG, STRONG AND DEADLY, LIVE STRONG and SEE … more →

LOOKING FOR A MONSTER

2010. 55mins. IN PRODUCTION. The story of Hanus Hachenburg, a gifted thirteen year old poet in wartime Czechoslovakia. His manuscripts, … more →

AUSTRALIA’S PRIME MINISTERS

2009. 26 x 3mins. ABC. Museum of Australian Democracy in Old Parliament House, Canberra. Biographies of each of Australia’s PMs for … more →

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

2008. 26m. SBS, NITV. Three stories of rural community health programs preventing child abuse and neglect in Kalumburu, Western Australia, … more →

LOOKING FOR A MONSTER – THE PLAY

2008. 27mins. When Hanus Hachenburg was a fourteen year old prisoner in the Terezin concentration camp, he wrote a prescient … more →

AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY SERIES IX, X, XI A video trailer is available for this title

2003 – 2007. 21 x 26m SBS. Significant Australians reflect on their lives and achievements. Producer/Director: Rod Freedman. Interviewer: Robin … more →

CHANGE THE WORLD IN 5 MINUTES

2007. 10 x 5m, SBS.  A cross-media series for the web and tv showing how simple, achievable actions can make … more →

DRINKING FOR TWO?

2006. 26mins, SBS. Introduces Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and its effects on a range of families. Produced for the Rural Health … more →

CROSSING THE LINE

2004. 56m ABCTV. When two non-indigenous medical students go on a placement to Mornington Island, a remote Aboriginal community, their … more →

WELCOME TO THE WAKS FAMILY

2002. 52m. SBS. Meet one of the largest families in Australia.  Everyday life in the Waks household, an orthodox Jewish … more →

EVERYDAY BRAVE

2001. 6 x 26m. SBS. Documentaries on Aboriginal Australian achievers, directed by indigenous filmmakers. ‘Best TV Series’ – Tudawali Awards. … more →

ONE LAST CHANCE – WAR CRIMINAL

2000. 36m. SBS DATELINE. Independent investigation of a Lithuanian war criminal living in Adelaide. Filmed in Lithuania, Israel & Australia. … more →

UNCLE CHATZKEL

1999. 52m. SBS. A personal documentary about Rod Freedman’s 93 year old great uncle in Lithuania.   UNCLE CHATZKEL portrays … more →

WRAP ME UP IN PAPERBARK

1999. 26m. ABC. An Aboriginal man’s quest to return his mother’s remains to her traditional country in the Northern Territory. … more →

OVER THE SEAS AND INTO THE BUSH

A general overview of what overseas trained doctors need to know about Australian medical culture and how the Australian healthcare … more →