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Established in 1994 by producer, writer, director John Hughes, Early Works makes drama and documentary for cinema, television and on-line. Our collection includes works on Australian art, politics and history. Australian labor history, Native Title and Indigenous rights feature in the collection, along with a number of works on radical Australian film.

This site includes clips and stills from the films, and reviews and documents in ‘stacks’.

DVDs for private use, library, school or university sales can be purchased from Contemporary Art Films though links here to individual films.

Early Works provides consultation services to the film and television industry, clients have included ABC TV, AFTRS, Screen Australia, the South Australian Film Commission, QPIX and School of Film and Television, VCA, University of Melbourne.

John Hughes was appointed an Honorary Fellow with the Faculty of VCA & MCM, University of Melbourne. 2013 and Adjunct Professor (Media), School of Media and Communication, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University, 2014. Currently with University of Canberra as ARC Research Associate on a project examining ‘utilitarian’ film in Australia (1945-1980). In May 2016 a Lifetime Membership Award was conferred by the Australian Directors Guild.

A current film project in post-production chronicles an international writer’s residency that took place in Yangshuo, Jiangmen and Guangzhou, convened by Professor DAI Fan, Sun Yat-sen University, in October and November 2015.

In 2015 John Cumming’s The Films of John Hughes: a History of Independent Screen Production in Australia was published by ATOM

Early Works supports the Australian Writer’s Guild, the Australian Directors Guild and the Documentary Australia Foundation.

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Australian Documentary Film and Television