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Aviva Ziegler
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Aviva Ziegler has worked in Award-winning Current Affairs television in Australia for over 20 years, observing and documenting the lives of others. In this film, Aviva turns the camera on herself to explore the essence of her own Jewishness. Being Jewish for Aviva is something of a conundrum: If you have no formal involvement in Judaism and its practices, and you don’t even believe in God, then what is it that makes you answer “yes” when asked...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The Origins of Disease: Filmed in Korea, the USA, Hungary, India and Australia, this episode uses case studies to look at the question of how new diseases arise and why they spread, or don't and finds that some are not diseases at all and are made worse by factors such as medical jargon and management style...A new disease at this moment is sitting quietly amongst rats on the Baltimore docks. It hasn't swept across the United States yet, and no-one...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Two convicted criminals come face-to-face with the toughest jury of all: the family and friends of their murdered victim. On one fateful night in 1994, a murder opened up a huge well of unresolved pain, guilt, anger, confusion and frustration. The murdered boy, it soon became clear, was not the only victim of this crime. In this heart rending story we meet a cast of wonderful characters. On the victim's side are the mother and the father, as well...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
WANDERING SOULS follows the mounting of a new stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, to honour the nearly 2 million Cambodians who died during the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979. Commissioned by Cambodian Living Arts, the Requiem is a first-time collaboration between filmmaker Rithy Panh and composer Dr. Him Sophy. The film tracks the story of the Cambodian creators and musicians, as they work with an international team to bring...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Will We Ever Learn?: Filmed in the USA, Italy, Australia and the UK, this episode draws together the themes and ideas from the whole series to show that, tragically,we do not learn from history so that old diseases re-emerge while new diseases arise....In New York today, 250 babies are born each year with congenital syphilis, a disease which we thought had disappeared long ago. Yet it is found in one of the wealthiest countries in the world with the...
6) Plagued
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Conceived, written and narrated by award-winning broadcaster Dr Norman Swan, this four-part series investigates the relationship between history, destiny and disease. Every era has its new diseases. AIDS is not the first and it won't be the last. Our history and our destiny are shaped by our diseases. Filmed in the UK and Europe, Australia, the USA and Asia, the series looks at the origins of disease, epidemics, the interaction between our immune...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
They're schoolgirls - dreaming of the future, wanting to go out and have fun, trying to work out relationships with families, friends and boyfriends - and attempting to finish high school while raising their babies. Plumpton High, in Sydney's outer western suburbs, is one of the few schools in Australia with a program that supports schoolgirl mothers completing their education, integrating them into the general student population. Over 100 girls have...
8) Storymakers
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Storymakers features internationally known Australian writers and illustrators of children's books. The series is designed to develop children's awareness of how books are conceived and created, and to encourage a love of books and reading. Each film in the series highlights different aspects of the process of creating a book. A Film Australia National Interest Program. 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Janet Bell....