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Australia's Digital Resource Finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION video clips from Film Australia's remarkable archive—one of the nation's largest and most historically significant collections. Clips are matched
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Australia was the executive producer of these productions, drawing the creative and technical talent needed to produce them from Australia's independent documentary production industry. The company also provided support to the Australian documentary sector through a range of services and
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Australia Studios in Sydney is a purpose-built film and television production facility and provides screening venues, a sound stage, sound post-production facilities, a film laboratory, production offices, editing and transfer suites. These are used by many Film Australia and low-budget
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educational resources, primarily for delivery online. It draws largely on the materials in Film
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productions that deal with matters of national interest or illustrate and interpret aspects of
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