Film and Media

The Fitzroy Stars was one of the first all-Indigenous football clubs in the early 70’s and folding in the early 90’s.

After 14 years, a Resurrection committee is on a mission to resurrect the Fitzroy Stars football club, and we follow their journey to recruit players and supporters. We meet some of the ex-players and discover and what being a ‘star’ meant to them then, and now.

Many players went on to become leaders of the community, A.T.S.I.C. Commissioners and developed welfare and cultural organisations in Melbourne and across the State. Football was more than football when you were a Fitzroy Star. It was more than a game. John was writer/director

Let’s Talk Treaty by John Harding. is a video installation documenting interviews with the general public. Interviewees were asked questions about the possibility of a treaty with Indigenous peoples, the Northern Territory intervention and issues of identity.

Bobby Nicholls has long recognized the urgency to record his Elders stories. He approached John Harding, playwright and community leader, and asked him who he should take his idea to.

At around this time filmmaker Rebecca McLean who was working at Open Channel asked John about possible uses for a fully equipped Mobile Training Unit (bus) set up by Open Channel, partially funded by an Indigenous grant. The timing was right so John married the two ideas, and Bobby, John and Rebecca took the idea to Open Channel's CEO at the time Jennie Hughes, who jumped at the idea.

After much brain storming and fund raising Yarnin' was born - a co-production between Open Channel and Yarnin' Pictures - Bobby, John and Rebecca.

Blak and Tran is a comedy featuring Australian comedian Hung Le and John Harding. The Two Marketeers explored exploitation of Indigenous Art through the eyes of two exploiters fronting market stalls in Melbourne. (Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival)