Deborah Mailman

Kangaroo (2025)

Ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, becomes stranded in an Outback town outside Alice Springs. There, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in ...

Last Days of the Space Age (2024)

Set in 1979 Western Australia, with a global beauty pageant contest creating a media frenzy and a power strike that threatens to plunge the region into darkness, history is at a turning point. But that's nothing compared to the drama these seemingly ordina ...

Runt (2024)

In the Australian town of Upson Downs, ten-year-old Annie and Runt, her stray dog, attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog Show in London in order to save their family's farm from drought and misery. ...

Bluey: The Sign (2024)

When the Heeler home goes up for sale, Bluey is not at all happy about the news. ...

Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back (2024)

When the promise of living in a perfect digital world traps the citizens of Sanctuary City online, Combat Wombat and Sweetie must return to save the day and kick some wom-butt! ...

Scarygirl (2023)

As her world is shrouded in darkness, a young girl must overcome her fears and travel to a mysterious city of light, save her father from a dangerous scientist and prevent the destruction of her planet. ...

The New Boy (2023)

In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Aboriginal children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. When the monastery takes possession of a preci ...

Looking Black (2022)

Looking Black explores the impact of Indigenous storytelling at the ABC, and how it has created deep and honest conversations about the experience of First Nations journalists, storytellers, and presenters. ...

H Is for Happiness (2021)

A twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the strange new boy at school, and sets out to mend her broken family – whatever it takes. ...

Combat Wombat (2020)

Maggie Diggins, a wombat turned Wonder Woman, unintentionally becomes the city's superhero after she begrudgingly saves a rookie superhero sugar glider from certain doom. ...

2067 (2020)

A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greates ...

Three Summers (2017)

Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality 'Queenie' describes as "Australia in a tent". Two young musicians fall in love against a wider collection of tales dealing with a mi ...

A Few Less Men (2017)

Travel plans for three men go horribly wrong with a race against time to return Luke home. ...

Oddball (2015)

An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town. ...

Blinky Bill the Movie (2015)

Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father's footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad's whereabouts ...

Redfern Now: Promise Me (2015)

Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime. ...

Paper Planes (2014)

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so. ...

Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014)

Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book. ...

The Darkside (2013)

Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers. ...

Mental (2012)

A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls. ...

The Sapphires (2012)

It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires. ...

Mabo (2012)

The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius. ...

Bran Nue Dae (2009)

In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an ...

Lucky Miles (2007)

It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australia. Although most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination to escape arres ...

The Book of Revelation (2006)

An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self. ...

The Archive Project (2006)

In the context of Australia's cold war a 'hidden history' of Melbourne's Realist film movement (1945-1959) is explored through the first person account of a filmmaker of another generation, speaking to the 'indy-media' movement of the present day. ...

Black Chicks Talking (2002)

Performer and writer Leah Purcell talks with five dynamic Indigenous women - Rosanna Angus, Kathryn Hay, Deborah Mailman, Cilla Malone and Tammy Williams - about what it means to be Aboriginal in Australia today. In a series of individual interviews and at ...

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback. ...

Play School: Nursery Rhymes (2001)

For over 30 years, Play School has been entertaining and teaching thousands of young Australians with its innovative and creative program style. Encouraging participation through a variety of interactive activities, Play School has without a doubt become a ...

The Monkey's Mask (2001)

A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex. ...

The Third Note (1999)

A blind woman and her neighbour discover a common bond after battling each other with sound. ...

Dear Claudia (1999)

Radiance (1998)

When eldest sister Cressy, middle daughter Mae and the young Nona are reunited for the first time in years it doesn't take long for the sparks to fly. Painful memories and secrets are revealed and put into a life-changing perspective in one unforgettable n ...

Ralph (2009)

For ten year-old Madeline, it takes more than just day dreaming to survive school; it takes a friend. ...

Australian Rules (2002)

16-year-old Gary Black is an average football player, budding wordsmith and reluctant hero. Gary helps his local Australian Rules football team win the local championship by accident, but celebrations turn to violence when Gary's Aboriginal best friend, Du ...