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- Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.
- 'Crossing the Line' follows the journeys of two young medical students, Amy and Paul, who leave their safe middle class homes and university behind to be thrust into the harsh reality of everyday life on Mornington Island. Like most Australians, they have never been exposed to life in a remote Indigenous community. Throughout their eight-week placement in this remote Indigenous community, Amy and Paul move beyond their professional roles to make personal connections with some of the locals. There is an ongoing tension between their personal experience with the community and the professional distance they are told they need to maintain in order to practice professionally. Extremely moving yet unsentimental, this film offers a rare insight into the practical realities of providing Western medical services to Indigenous communities and illustrates ways in which engagement can contribute to an improvement in the crisis in Aboriginal health today.
- Prevention of chronic disease is key to closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. This DVD explores a range of strategies to improve nutrition and significantly reduce the burden of chronic disease.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers play a vital role in the primary health workforce. They provide clinical services, health promotion and work with their communities responding to local health priorities. They deal with patients, clients and visitors in hospitals and also assist in coordinating and providing health care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community health clinics. In particular they look after the spiritual, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the whole community. This documentary showcases the unique and significant role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and aims to bring greater understanding to the integral role that they play in 'closing the gap' for their people. Presented by Daniel Browning, presenter and producer of the Awaye. program on ABC Radio National, this half-hour documentary has been filmed in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services around Australia. It features filmed interviews and case studies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers who are making a significant difference to the spiritual, emotional and cultural wellbeing of their communities: Wuchopperen Health Service in Cairns features the role of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker as the first point of call at the Health Service. This case study shows a primary care model where clinical services are coordinated with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker playing an integral role in this service. Karpa Ngarrattendi Aboriginal Health Service in Adelaide shows how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers facilitate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at a cardiac unit at Flinders Medical Centre. This case study underlines the impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients of having to leave their communities, often for the first time, and engage with a complex medical facility and illustrates the important role of educational, liaison and support role played by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers. Wurli Wurlinjang Health Service in Katherine. This case study focuses on the development of clinical skills, advocacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, and the relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and non-Indigenous health workers. It shows the 'on the job' training provided at Wurli. Nunga Lunch provided by Noarlunga Aboriginal Primary Health Unit each week. The whole team are in attendance so it is a great way for the community to interact with the Aboriginal Health Workers.
- What's the price of being a bystander? Sidney Bloch is an internationally recognized professor of psychiatry, loving father, singer and author of books on mental health. He is also a man with a troubled conscience. Sid returns to South Africa from Melbourne for his medical school reunion, determined to resolve his guilt for colluding with Apartheid, that has troubled him for forty years. He's accompanied by his teenage son, Aaron who turns out to be his harshest critic. Aaron narrates the film. In the Apartheid era, Sid had benefited as a 'White', contributed negligibly to the struggle against racism and then left for Israel the day after his medical graduation. A sense of guilt and shame accompanied him throughout his later move to Australia. So how does a man who lost fourteen relatives in the Holocaust become complicit with a racist system? Sid seeks out victims of Apartheid, former colleagues who stayed to make a difference, and political activists such as Judge Albie Sachs, measuring his own stand against theirs. How do they regard him? Could he have acted differently? What were his choices? Aaron critically observes his father's explorations, both supporting and provoking him to move on and at least, forgive himself. The film explores how easy it is to accept injustice and compromise your morals. Though it's easy for any good person to become a bystander, it's not so easy to live with the consequences. WRONG SIDE OF THE BUS is one man's journey to forgiveness.