Ronin Films (Firm)
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandildjara people to be living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the remote Gibson Desert of central Australia. Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal Elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Charlie Circle of Adipur, a small provincial town in western India, embraces businessmen, shopkeepers, teachers, engineers, students, and a 3-year-old pre-schooler - all engaged in an annual celebration of Chaplin’s birthday by dressing in imitation of his “Tramp” character. Even the local doctor prescribes Chaplin movies for health and well-being. When award-winning Australian film-maker Kathryn Millard stumbled across the beguiling Charlie...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development. Max Stuart, Thomas Stevens, Doris Stuart and other Elders talk about the importance of the sites in and around the city in terms of traditional Dreaming. They reflect on their sense of loss as sites are desecrated...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
December 1941: a group of women and a 10-year-old girl named Sorella Epstein are photographed after being ordered to take their outer clothing off in freezing temperatures. Humiliated and silenced, they are among 3,640 Latvian Jewish women and children massacred by Nazi troops and their Latvian collaborators at Skede Beach, Latvia. Almost 80 years later, Ethel Davis, a 90-year-old Jewish Australian, is till haunted by this massacre. She is the author...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Filmed for over a year on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, this documentary follows the stories of the staff and students at a progressive Public School, young singer-songwriter Ruby Archer and the Artistic Director of the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music, Patrick Brennan. The film is introduced by Uncle Kevin Gavi Duncan from the Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council who shares his wisdom about the importance of music to First...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how the fragile alpine region of Australia, particularly Kosciuszko National Park, the largest in the Australian Alps, is seen by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who were born or live there, or who care deeply about it. After seeing the destruction of the fragile alpine ecology of Australia's Snowy Mountains first hand, Richard Swain decides to speak out. Australia's alpine area which covers only 0.01 of the inhabited part of the continent...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fuses studio re-enactments, interviews, archival, bodycam and CCTV footage to tell a radically new story about psychology’s bystander experiments. It begins in 1964 with the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese in New York. Thirty-eight witnesses watched the attack – and did nothing. Allegedly. Psychologists claimed that the more onlookers on a scene, the less likely it was that any of them would help. Yet there is growing evidence to the contrary....
8) Light Years
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A unique record of the life and work of eminent Australian photographer, Olive Cotton. In the 1930s and 1940s, Cotton successfully ran a studio in Sydney with renowned Australian photographer Max Dupain. Her work was exhibited both in Australia and overseas. At the end of the war she married and moved to Koorawatha in central New South Wales. As she and her husband struggled to gain a living from the land and raise a family, it seemed that Cotton...
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic began a new era of uncertainty. One person, Veyd, is still standing albeit with the aid of crutches, observing the chaos of past and present from his effective incarceration. Being physically vulnerable, Veyd has been ‘shielded', totally isolated, in suburban London for the previous six months. He will continue to be so - imprisoned indefinitely, or at least until it is safe for him to leave which won't be anytime soon. Somehow,...