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Projects
Burn
Nominated for the 2009 AFI and 2010 Australian Director’s Guild Awards for Best Short Film, this gritty street drama was created with at-risk youth from 9 ethnic minorities in inner-city Sydney.
Australian Directors Guild Awards finalist
2010 Best Short Film
Australian Film Industry Awards finalist
2009 Best Short Fiction Film
ATOM awards finalist
2009 Best Multimodal Production
Voices from the Cape
Nominated for the 2009 AFI and 2010 Australian Director’s Guild Awards for Best Documentary Series, this compelling documentary series follows a Community Prophets training program in one of Australia’s most traumatised communities, Aurukun.
Australian Directors Guild Awards finalist
2010 Best Documentary Series
Australian Film Industry Awards finalist
2009 Best Documentary Series
Us Mob
A world first Indigenous children’s interactive television series, Us Mob employed 22 Aboriginal story creators and over 70 local Aboriginal people as characters, crew, editorial advisors, interpreters and cultural advisors. Us Mob received the 2005 AIMIA Award for best Learning Resource and continues to screen on ABC television.
AIMIA Award Winner
2005 Best Learning Site
ATOM awards finalist
2006 Best Interactive Learning Site
Bush Bikes
A festival favorite and multiple award winner, this 6 minute short-film introduced the Community Prophets model of broadcast production to the world and has remained a crowd pleaser ever since. Selected for inclusion in the BFI’s short film educational resource “Real Shorts”.
Flickerfest International Film Festival
2002 Special Jury Commendation
Chicago Int’l Children’s Film Festival
2003 Adult Jury Prize for Excellence
MAFIA (Music & Film Independent Artists Doc. Awards)
2003 Best Film
Beyond Sorry
“…a haunting documentary… a story that is painfully humane, and never compromising the humanity and beauty of its subjects.” – Australian Screen
Voted an audience favorite at the Sydney Film Festival in 2005, Beyond Sorry explores the journey of inner conflict, family rejection and eventual healing and acceptance as a member of the Stolen Generation returns 58 years later to live on her father’s country.
Trespass
Winner of the Golden Sheaf Award in Canada for Best International Documentary in 2002, Trespass remains the only film to document, in the threatened Gundjeihmi language, the Mirarr community’s remarkable battle against successive multinational mining companies and governments intent on developing a uranium mine on their land.
ATOM awards finalist
2003 Best Documentary
Golden Sheaf Awards: Yorkton, Canada
2002 Best International Documentary
Flickerfest International Film Festival
2003 Special Jury Commendation
Coming soon
60,000 years of laughter
In 2011 David Vadiveloo and Community Prophets will Produce the exciting new documentary from Director Danny Teece-Johnson, “60,000 years of laughter”. A joyous celebration of Indigenous humour in Australia.
Coming soon
“Toast” by SOSU
In 2010 David Vadiveloo and Community Prophets will Produce the delightful short comedy drama “Toast” by the SOSU group and will commence development on their first feature in 2011.
Coming soon
Mirarr feature
As part of their ongoing 3 year partnership with the Mirarr community of Kakadu, and using the same model that resulted in the successful Us Mob project, Community Prophets will commence development on the first feature drama to be produced from the Kakadu region in 2011.
