Movies: Martha Ansara

  • 2020
    Brazen Hussies

    Brazen Hussies (2020)

    Brazen Hussies

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    Reveals a revolutionary chapter in Australian history, the Women’s Liberation Movement (1965 -1975). Interweaves fresh archival footage, personal photographs, memorabilia, and personal accounts from activists all around Australia to show how a daring...

    Brazen Hussies
  • 1977
    Backroads

    Backroads (1977)

    Backroads

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    Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a Frenc...

    Backroads
  • 1982
    Changing the Needle

    Changing the Needle (1982)

    Changing the Needle

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    A quarter of a million drug addicts —one of the most serious consequences of the Vietnam War. These addicts were the citizens of the South, and of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon. Shot in 1981 by three Australian women, Changing the Needle was th...

    Changing the Needle
  • 1973
    A Film for Discussion

    A Film for Discussion (1973)

    A Film for Discussion

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    A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experimental form issues that were under discussion within the Women’s Liberation Movement at this time and to thus contribute to action for change. In its ...

    A Film for Discussion
  • 1979
    My Survival as an Aboriginal

    My Survival as an Aboriginal (1979)

    My Survival as an Aboriginal

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    Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal kids are forgetting about their Aboriginal heritage because they are being taught white culture inst...

    My Survival as an Aboriginal
  • 2008
    The Ballad of Betty & Joe

    The Ballad of Betty & Joe (2008)

    The Ballad of Betty & Joe

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    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 ...

    The Ballad of Betty & Joe
  • 1993
    My Life As I Live It

    My Life As I Live It (1993)

    My Life As I Live It

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    In her second film, MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT (1993), Essie Coffey returns to her home in Dodge City where she and the A-Team are running in the shire elections. Inter-cutting between 1993 and 1978, the film presents the fascinating contrasts of a society...

    My Life As I Live It
  • 2002
    Ordinary People

    Ordinary People (2002)

    Ordinary People

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    Far right and anti-immigration politics have been on the rise worldwide. In Australia, as in many other western countries, as Ordinary People was filming, a new political force began drawing on the discontent of those who felt excluded from the promi...

    Ordinary People
  • 2020
    Women of Steel

    Women of Steel (2020)

    Women of Steel

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    Forty years ago, Wollongong’s Jobs for Women Campaign, with director Robynne Murphy among its leaders, took on Australia’s most powerful company BHP – and won. But when the 1980s steel slump devastated the city’s economy, the women were forced into t...

    Women of Steel
  • 1978
    Third Person Plural

    Third Person Plural (1978)

    Third Person Plural

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    Four young people get to know each other by spending weekends on a yacht stationed in Sydney's Pittwater area....

    Third Person Plural
  • 1988
    The Pursuit of Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness (1988)

    The Pursuit of Happiness

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    A drama with strong documentary elements, set in the port city of Fremantle, WA, at a time of American nuclear fleet visits. The film traces the conflicts Anna faces within her family and within a divided town. It explores and connects the critical i...

    The Pursuit of Happiness
  • 1984
    On Guard

    On Guard (1984)

    On Guard

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    Set against the backdrop of modern-day Sydney, this heist-style thriller involves four politicised women from varying backgrounds, who conspire to sabotage the research programme of a multi-national firm, Utero, which is engaged in reproductive engin...

    On Guard
  • 1978
    Maidens

    Maidens (1978)

    Maidens

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    Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to trace the filmmaking journey of one feminist (the filmmaker herself). Almos...

    Maidens
  • 2006
    I Remember 1948

    I Remember 1948 (2006)

    I Remember 1948

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    Speaking in Arabic and English, Soliman Al-Halawani, Dr. Mahmoud Hourani, Fouad Charida, Dib El Chami and Rafica El Chami Batach tell of their life in Palestine before 1948 and give eye-witness accounts of the tumultuous days of 'Al Nakba' (the catas...

    I Remember 1948
  • 1989
    Always Was, Always Will Be

    Always Was, Always Will Be (1989)

    Always Was, Always Will Be

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    This is the account of the Aboriginal People of Perth on protest to protect the Ancestral First Grandmothers' and Grandfathers' Beliefs of the Sacred Ground of the Waugul at the old Swan Brewery on the Swan River in Perth, W.A....

    Always Was, Always Will Be