Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.

Children as young as seven are being groomed to sell drugs for 'county lines' drugs gangs in towns a...

Packed with drama, high emotions and cliff-hanger moments, Australia Says Yes is the intimate and pe...
Something in the Water explores the rock phenomenon that is music in WA. How can the most isolated c...

Satan in the Suburbs tells the shocking story of a grisly ritualistic murder in the quiet bedroom co...

The fuzzy boundaries between sanity and insanity in an isolated Christian group come to light when o...

This short film involves a dramatic retelling of Australia's actual war against their own national b...
Follows Mas and Saha, two young Iranian asylum seeker musicians, navigating a frightening new world ...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...

Gurdeep is a thirteen-year-old Canadian Sikh whose family runs a dairy farm near Chilliwack, British...

Ed is commissioned to make a documentary intending to change those habits of society that are harmfu...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...

Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through drones, hidden & handheld cameras,...

In Australia, sharks have recently been recorded with unusual prey-including other sharks. In order ...

Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cart...

This refreshingly frank and impartial study of the discovery and development of the notorious halluc...

This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, ...

In her second film, MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT (1993), Essie Coffey returns to her home in Dodge City wher...

takayna / Tarkine in northwestern Tasmania is home to one of the last undisturbed tracts of Gondwana...

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...

The PhanDom Menace presents the definitive look at the most devoted fans on the planet. Follow the l...