Secret Country

An intimate portrait of Donydji, a remote, traditional Indigenous homeland in north-east Arnhem Land in the far north of Australia.

Tayamangajirri (which means 'we look after each other') follows the lives of a team of women from Tiwi Islands who work day and night making sure that the Island's kids and families are safe.

Essie Coffey's first film, My Survival as an Aboriginal is now a classic. It introduced us to the life of her family and her community in far northwest New South Wales. Essie's second film returns to her home in Dodge City 15 years later. There Essie and the A-Team are nominating for the local shire elections. Intercutting between 1993 and the same people and places of the past as documented in My Survival as an Aboriginal, Essie shows us that some things have changed, but some have stayed the same.