On the theme of documentary made in close collaboration with communities check out the Big Stories, Small Towns project that happened in Port Augusta, South Australia. Two experienced film makers lived and worked in Port Augusta for several months in 2008, producing a series of films about community stories. The material is only available online and the whole project was inspired by the Filmmaker-in-Residence model from Canada. (Warning, there is a lot of material to see… another good one to look at with a cup of tea or two…).
[...] of South Australia comes the newest incarnation of Big Stories Small Towns, a project in which resident film makers have made portrait films about people in the communities [...]