Shark Island Institute

13/08/2025

IT STARTS WITH US
Don’t miss this beautiful, transformative film - premiering on ABC Compass this Sunday 17th August at 6:30 pm.

Shark Island Foundation is proud to support the incredible work of Big hART and the powerful voices of Project O's young people.

IT STARTS WITH US is a documentary and social impact project, developed with family violence prevention advocate Rosie Batty and young people from Frankston North, Victoria. Produced by arts and social change company Big hART.

View on ABC and iView from August 17th. Big hART
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31/07/2025

Applications are open!
Shark Island Kangaroo Valley is proud to be supporting First nations Impact Lab for a third year.
We look forward to welcoming another group of inspiring change makers and storytellers to Kangaroo Valley.

11/07/2025

Looking for inspiring winter viewing? Our friends at Documentary Australia are hosting an encore screening of the Environmental Accelerator Film Festival, available FREE and online from 18-27 July on ACMI’s Cinema 3 platform, with support from Intrepid Travel. (use tags).

The festival features eight impactful environmental documentaries, including Emmy-nominated Delikado Film, The Giants Film, Rachel's Farm (Regenerators), Climate Changers (Climate Changers Documentary), Greenhouse by Joost, Stay Tuned To Our Planet (STTOP), and new additions Power to Country and White Rock, with a special online Q&A on 22 July.
Shark Island Foundation is proud to have supported a number of these great doco's!

The festival aims to increase awareness and action on a range of pressing environmental issues by using documentary as a tool to create change.

Register for the FREE film festival and join the movement to accelerate action for our environment.

Watch seven free environmental documentaries online in Documentary Australia's Environmental Accelerator Film Festival from 18–27 July on ACMI’s Cinema 3.

10/07/2025

THE FINAL QUARTER and other great titles - watch for free in NAIDOC week with DocPlay.

From an ‘electrically powerful’ look at the final chapter of Adam Goodes’ AFL career to a must-see portrait of Gurrumul, along with Australia’s ‘greatest protest movie’

06/07/2025

Great recommendations for films to watch (including THE FINAL QUARTER) this NAIDOC week by the great Luke Buckmaster at THE GUARDIAN

04/07/2025

We are delighted THE POOL was recognised by the Doc Edge judging panel at the festival awards in New Zealand. Thank you! Congratulations to THE POOL team — in production and post — and all our participants - shout out to all those Bondi Icebergs Club swimmers of all seasons and the pool staff 🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏼‍♀️

🏆CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL DOC EDGE 2025 AWARDS WINNERS 🏆

MIGHTY INDEED (NZ Feature) and THE POOL (International Feature) take top honours and Oscar® consideration.

Check out the list of award winners from NZ and International - https://docedge.nz/whats-on/awards/

17/06/2025

We are excited to be at Doc Edge New Zealand in July, and invite you to come and see the film in cinema there! We'll be in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Bookings at the DocEdge site - link in comments.

Dive in with us!

12/06/2025

Coming soon……we promise!!!!! 🎥

20/05/2025

Vimeo On Demand gives you THE POOL On Demand - available now!

19/05/2025

"Fetch" your friends and family and watch from home - THE POOL now available on digital.

18/05/2025

THE POOL screening now on Prime - watch from home!

01/04/2025

THEATRE: Griffin Theatre Company
25-27 March 2025

Two days, two nights of creative thinking, planning, dreaming for Griffin Theatre Company at a crucial time in their story, at the beginning of a new chapter. At a time when their offices and creative spaces have become a construction zone, Shark Island Kangaroo Valley provided some peace and space and weaved its magic.