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DOCUMENTARIES and FILMS

Messing With Heads

modern strains of super-strength cannabis are increasingly triggering psychoses, depression and anxiety disorders in teenagers.

Hidden Army

about carers of parent with depression.

Anna's Story

Four Corners discovers vital new evidence in the case of Cornelia Rau, who needed help but instead got ten months inside a jail and detention centre.

Reporter: Debbie Whitmont
Broadcast: 31/03/2005

The Guns of Adjungbilly - Part 1

'The Tumut Seige' .. "One hot summer morning in February 2001 police from the local cop shop went to arrest the 57-year-old on an outstanding warrant. Mentally ill and confused by the uniformed trespassers Jim Hallinan pulled a gun on them. The small community of Tumut had never seen anything like this ever before".
www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1458099.htm www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1459472.htm

The Guns of Adjungbilly - Part 2

www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1463333.htm www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1464579.htm

Out of Mind

Reporter: Matthew Carney Four Corners ABC TV
www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1460924.htm www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1463798.htm

The New Asylums

Four Corners ABC TV
Reporter: PBS Frontline

Broadcast: 20/06/2005

Nearly 500,000 mentally ill men and women are now locked up in America's jails. That's 10 times the number who remain in its psychiatric hospitals. staff use boots vests armour and shields to control psychotic prisoners in these jails , how are kids at home supposed to cope with psychotic parents ! comment from nn members after watching this program,
www.abc.net.au/4corners/default.htm
www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1393675.htm

Victorian College of The Arts

Documentary Projects with NNAAMI

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Intimate confessions Re Jane Fonda' s Life

And now she blames that "disease to please", as she puts it, on a difficult childhood. First off her mother committed suicide. Jane was 12. JANE FONDA said: She (her mother) had been institutionalised

Reporter: Lesley Stahl Producer: CBS 60 Minutes
Replayed on Sixty Minutes Channel Nine TV Australia 29 May 05

NNAAMI Documentaries

NNAAMI had significant planning in or co-production of the following Documentaries,

ABC National News Feb 1995
10 October 96
SBS "Insight Program" - "families of the mentally ill: families that the federal and state health authorities don't want to know" Co-produced with nnaami.
This documentary won MBF Wellbeing Award.

27 June 1997
State Line Program
Suicide Prevention
NNAAMI Film Segment Documentary
ABC TV

March 2000.
Kaali's Story
NNAAMI Production Kaali presents her story to nn conference.
National Seminar 2000.
McInerney Auditorium Deakin University

18 August 2000.
7.30 Report
Youth Week
ABC Television

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