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triplej tv docs5

triplej tv docs5 was a joint initiative of ABC TV and Screen Australia in 2010 for emerging filmmakers 35 years or under. It sought new approaches to half-hour and one-hour documentaries that explore contemporary issues, ideas and culture through the eyes of generations X, Y and Z:

MONGOLIAN BLING
Flying Fish Films Pty Ltd
Producer Nubar Ghazarian
Consultant Producer Liz Burke
Writer/Director Benj Binks
Synopsis Mongolia has hip hop. It was beamed into the country, bringing with it foreign images of jewels, clothes and fame. In their haste to take in the outside world, many of the youth ignored their country’s rich musical history. A history that the Shamans believe holds the key to Mongolia’s success on the world hip hop stage. While many artists still aspire to the West, a handful are using hip hop to try and salvage their country’s struggling democracy, and bring Mongolia’s rich musical history into modern beats and rhymes.

The Tote Documentary
NicNat Films
Producer Nicole Rogers
Director Natalie Van Den Dungen
Synopsis Explores the rich musical history of one of Melbourne’s most renowned rock’n’roll pubs, the Tote Hotel in Collingwood, and the impact of its imminent closure.

Welcome To Mapworld
CraigFX Pty Ltd
Producer/Writer/Director Craig Anderson
Writer/Director Doug Bayne
Synopsis Comedy, animation and special effects combine in this essay documentary to ask the big questions: “What is it to be human? Do we need God? What is it with these maps?”

History of triple j tv docs

Fifteen documentaries were commissioned prior to 2010 through the triple j tv docs initiative, enabling emerging filmmakers from every state across Australia to explore themes such as celebrity, war, love, sexuality, loss and survival, and to make some of the strongest narrative based documentaries in recent years. Many of these films have gone on to win awards and appear in festivals in Australia and overseas.

For more information on previous triple j tv docs, download the History of triple j tv docs (PDF).
See samples of previous triple j tv docs films at www.abc.net.au/triplej/tv/docs.

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