earlyworks

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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 offers access to the films, clips, stills from the films, reviews and other documents in ‘stacks’.

DVDs and streaming for private use, library, school or universities are available from Contemporary Art Films linked here to most individual titles.

Television series such as Hidden Treasures (Series 1 and 2), The Art of War (4 x half-hours), An Unstoppable Force: Betty Churcher with John Olson, sponsored films for trade unions and ‘creative re-purpose’ works are also linked through titles here.

An Honorary Fellow with the School of Film and Television, Faculty Fine Arts & Music, University of Melbourne (2013 -) and Adjunct Professor (Media), School of Media and Communication, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University (2014-) John Hughes was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2016. A Lifetime Membership to the Australian Directors Guild was conferred in May 2016.

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.

We live and work on Wurundjeri Country, Kulin Nations, sovereignty never ceded

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Australian Documentary Film and Television