BLACKBIRD short film on SBS OnDemand

Blackbird Streams FREE on SBS OnDemand Until 2027

I’m pleased to share that NITV has renewed the broadcast licensing for the film for the next 3 years. This means that BLACKBIRD is available to screen online for free in Australia until 2027. View the film on SBS OnDemand here. If you’re outside of Australia, click through here. More information about BLACKBIRD film project here.

Brown Sugar Festival 2023 Mackay Queensland - Amie Batalibasi-Joshua Yow Yeh-Bernetta Johnson

Strength in Community

In October 2023, I was fortunate to be able to travel to the lands of the Yuwibara people, Mackay, Queensland for the Brown Sugar Festival. The event marked “the 160th anniversary since the first South Sea Islander people were brought to Queensland to work in the sugar and cotton industries.” I had the honour of …

Blackbird short film SBS OnDemand NITV

BLACKBIRD Streams on SBS OnDemand Until 2024

BLACKBIRD (13 mins, PG) is now available to watch online for free in Australia via the SBS OnDemand platform until 2024. Stream on your computer or phone: CLICK HERE BLACKBIRD screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival; imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto 2016; the Pasifika Film Festival, Sydney 2016, where it picked up …

Blackbird Film Project Jeremy Bobby. A short film by Amie Batalibasi. Photo Credit: Mark Morris

Watch BLACKBIRD Short Film Anytime – Online Streaming & DVD

BLACKBIRD is an award-winning short narrative film inspired by the history of Australia’s sugar slaves, written and directed by Australian-Solomon Islander filmmaker Amie Batalibasi. To watch BLACKBIRD via online streaming (for private viewing) or DVD (for educational use, community screenings & a variety of uses) read below. We invite you to share viewing links with …

Rosa and Kiko - © Blackbird Short Film

BLACKBIRD to Broadcast in Asia Pacific Region via ABC Australia 2020

We’re delighted to announce that ABC International has acquired broadcast rights for BLACKBIRD to screen throughout the Asia Pacific region, free to air via their ABC international platform. This is particularly exciting because it means that those throughout the Asia Pacific region in over 40 countries, will have the opportunity to access to our short film. …

Berlinale - Blackbird Film Still - Kiko 08 © Amie Batalibasi

BLACKBIRD to Screen at Berlinale International Film Festival

BLACKBIRD has been invited to screen at the 69th Berlinale International Film Festival in February 2019 as part of the Berlinale NATIVe Program. It’s an honour for our film and this story to be recognised at an international festival of this calibre especially as it’s part of a program focusing on indigenous storytelling in the Pacific region. BLACKBIRD is one of 16 films selected. …

BLACKBIRD Festival Laurels

BLACKBIRD SBS OnDemand Screening 2018

After last year’s NITV national screening debut, BLACKBIRD (13 mins, PG) is now available to screen online for free for those in Australia, via the SBS OnDemand platform. Watch on your computer or phone until [EDIT: 17 January 2019] previous showing 9 December 2018. UPDATE: If you missed this date, you can watch anytime: CLICK …

imagineNATIVE Best Digital Work AEASI

imagineNATIVE Award & BLACKBIRD in Hawaii

imagineNATIVE AWARD In October 2018, I was very surprised to receive a phone call from Canada with news that our short 360VR documentary ‘AEASI – as far as the eye can see above the sea’  received the Best Digital Work award at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. My family and I made this film together …

BLACKBIRD ON DVD Ronin Films

BLACKBIRD DVD RELEASE

BLACKBIRD DVD INTERNATIONAL RELEASE 4th JULY 2018: https://bit.ly/BlackbirdRonin BLACKBIRD is a short film by Australian Solomon Islander filmmaker Amie Batalibasi, that sheds light on a little known part of history – Australia’s sugar slaves. Ronin Films will release the BLACKBIRD DVD 4th JULY 2018, 9am AEST. BLACKBIRD screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival in …