Finished in 1997, a gutsy cinema verite look at the battle in the frontlines of the forests of northern NSW between the loggers and so-called ‘feral’ environmentalists. A very personal film because it started when Bradbury woke up to find the serenity and peace he sought, living on the edge of a rainforest in northern […]
Bradbury produced, filmed and co-directed with Richard Mordaunt was about the Byron Shire community coming together to halt inappropriate development. It tracked the struggle over four years of the community to stop developers, including Club Med, making Byron shire into another Gold Coast. This film tells the story of how an impassioned community committed to […]
Bradbury combines his film making talents with long-time university friend and environmental activist, Peter Garrett. Aired nationally on the commercial Seven network, it was instrumental in stopping sandmining going ahead in the largest area of untouched wilderness on the East coast of Australia south of Cape York. Shoalwater: Up for Grabs (1992) saw Bradbury combine […]
The documentary follows Dr John Wamsley’s attempt to acquire a parcel of land in the Grose Valley NSW for use as a wildlife sanctuary. A wealthy man in his sixties with a PhD in mathematics, Wamsley is taking on the conservation establishment. Underneath his famous feral cat hat, Dr John Wamsley is a man with […]
The struggle of the Mirrar people against the Jabiluka Uranium mine. “Jabiluka is about us, blackfellas, whitefellas together…and our belief in the future of our nation.” In 1997, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) pushed to open a new uranium mine surrounded by the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park. The traditional Aboriginal owners told the […]
An expose of Japanese attempts to buy the vote of small countries in the Caribbean and South Pacific to block a proposal for a sanctuary for whales in the Antarctic. Presented by Olivia Newton John, it was shown nationally by the Nine network in Australia and sold to Discovery and PBS in the USA, England, […]