ḺUKU NGÄRRA: THE LAW OF THE LAND
Winner 'The Change' Award Adelaide Film Festival 2022
Winner 'Human Rights' Award Montreal Independent Film Festival 2023
Theatrical Release 2024

Over 5 years in the making,  Ḻuku Ngärra: The Law of the Land is our highly anticipated independent film that follows the life and legacy of Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM. A traditional law man, spiritual leader, civil rights activist and teacher for all. 

Please visit the film website to find out more: www.lukungarrafilm.com
 
 
NAAJA INDIGENOUS LEGAL EDUCATION VIDEOS
2020

Our Generation Media collaborated with Northern Australia Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) to produce 24 educational videos aimed to help Yolngu to understand their rights. Funded by Arnhem Land Progress Association, we were honoured to combine forces with talented cameraman Matt McLean from Aris Grimes Media as well as give young and upcoming Indigenous film makers Siena Ganambarr-Stubbs and Mililma May an opportunity to shine.



YOUNG DEADLY FREE PROJECT
2018 - 2019

Our Generation Media worked with South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (led by Indigenous Prof. James Ward) and the Young Deadly Free Project to produce over 140 social media + educational videos to raise awareness of the STI outbreak in remote Aboriginal communities across Australia. We have travelled to over 11 different communities to capture the voices of all those concerned. 




MAKING OF CLIPS FOR TINPAN ORANGE
2020

We loved spending a whole day in the studio with the super talented Australian band Tinpan Orange to film their new EP being recorded. 



MUSIC VIDEO CLIP FOR JURXN
2019

We recently shot a beautiful music clip for a most talented upcoming singer, Jurxn. Full Maori woman energy. 



MUSIC VIDEO CLIP FOR WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
2018
When Director Sinem Saban heard this song for the first time she was in tears and offered to put together a deeply moving music video for the song.



HOPE FOR HEALTH PROJECT
2015 - Current

In 2015 Sinem Saban worked closely with co-founders of this ground-breaking Indigenous wholistic health project, Kama Trudgen and Dianne Birritjaluwuy to help launch the project. As well as designing the official Hope For Health logo, Sinem helped them successfully raise over $80,000 which took 12 Yolngu women from Elcho Island to the Living Valley Springs Health retreat.
 
Sinem documented their experiences pre and post retreat and then worked on the ground on Elcho Island helping prepare for another large scale fundraiser to get the first Indigenous run Health Retreat going on Elcho Island. This is one of the most rewarding projects Sinem has worked on to date, empowering Yolngu women to return to their traditional diet and introduce more nutritional foods into their life has proven to improve their chronic health issues.
 
The Hope For Health project is demonstrating that empowerment comes through health and that early death is not the first option for chronic disease. Sinem is now a proud ongoing Ambassador of the Hope For Health project and continues to document their progress for a possible future film project.

Please visit the Hope For Health website to check out their amazing work. 


'MAKING OF THE NANA ALBUM'
XAVIER RUDD + THE UNITED NATIONS
2015
We produced over 20 short videos for the making of this album. Up close and personal in the recording studio, and interviews with all the dynamic band members.

Videos can be seen on the Xavier Rudd youtube channel.

WHY WARRIORS
2015 - 2016
Co-Director Damien Curtis joined forces with author and long standing educator Richard Trudgen and the Why Warriors team as their new Training and Media Co-Ordinator. Damien oversaw the Bridging the Gap seminars which offer Cross Cultural Solutions to working with Indigenous People.
 
Please visit the Why Warriors website for more information.


YOLNGU NATIONS ASSEMBLY
2014 - 2015
We proudly worked with the Yolngu Aboriginal Nations of Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, to support their chosen path to autonomy and self-determination. Our support included video documentation and the development of a media project looking at learning exchanges between Yolngu leaders and First Nation leaders in the US and Canada on their shared struggle for self-determination.


ALIVE! AND KICKING GOALS
2014 - 2015
In 2014 and 2015 Sinem and Damien proudly worked with a group of 12 Indigenous women from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to produce educational and awareness videos on the suicide epidemic that plagues their communities. In collaboration with Beyond Blue and the Men's Outreach Service, this is the first women-led Indigenous suicide prevention initiative. The videos were lauched in September 2015. 


CULTURE IS LIFE / BE PART OF THE HEALING
2013 - 2015
Then Co-Director Damien Curtis worked closely with People Culture Environment to develop the national awareness campaign on Indigenous suicide, Culture Is Life. At the heart of the campaign is The Elders Report on Preventing Indigenous Youth Suicide and Self Harm, which was based on our interviews with Aboriginal Elders across remote Western Australia and the Northern Territory. All funds raised by the campaign BE PART OF THE HEALING are donated to existing grassroots Indigenous suicide prevention programs.


​STAND FOR FREEDOM NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
2012
​Created and launched by Our Generation Media, this campaign was formed in response to ongoing discriminatory Government policy towards Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory, the Stand For Freedom campaign has been a pioneer in creating change and awareness in Australia around Aboriginal rights.

 
OUR GENERATION DOCUMENTARY
2011
Our Generation is an award-winning feature-length documentary which looks at the ongoing disempowerment and assimilation faced by Aboriginal people in the Australia's Northern Territory.
 
Made in collaboration with the Yolngu people of Northeast Arnhem Land, the film poses a much-needed challenge to the misrepresentation of Aboriginal people in mainstream media, and the ongoing denial by the Australian Government of their basic human rights.
 
The film has sparked a fervent grassroots movement of awareness and action, with hundreds of community screenings taking place across the country and internationally. In 2011, it won the award for 'Best Campaign Film' at the London International Documentary Festival.


BIODIVERSITY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN AUSTRALIA
2010
Our Generation Media was asked by the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA), in partnership with the United Nations, to create an informative film on the relevance of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to Indigenous people in Australia.
 
 
ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY CONSULTATIONS
2011
​In June 2011, Our Generation Media was asked by the advocacy group 'concerned Australians' (founded by the inspiring late Michaelle Harris) to travel to Northeast Arnhem Land to independently document the Federal Government's community consultations over the proposed Stronger Futures legislation.

 
GetUp! HOMELANDS CAMPAIGN
2009
Our Generation Media was invited by GetUp! to create media for their campaign on Aboriginal homelands. The campaign aimed at raising awareness of the importance of homelands (or 'outstations') to Aboriginal culture and wellbeing, and the need for the Government to continue providing services for them. The campaign resulted in a petition signed by more than 27,000 people being presented to Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, asking that she commit to supporting homelands into the future.​