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TRAC Productions honours all Traditional Owners of Country in Australia
TRAC Productions makes vivid and exclusive programmes that go around the world. Producer Robert Cockburn’s broadcast work is for the BBC, National Geographic and Journeyman Pictures. Robert is a journalist and a drama writer for stage and screen. A former correspondent in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq for The Observer and BBC, he has worked widely for the BBC, UK Guardian and The Times as well as writing for the Public Library of Science Medicine, Amnesty International, The American Prospect, the satirical Private Eye and across the Australian print and broadcast media.
The Malaria Parasites– 1-hour film documentary
‘The fake drug racket is one of the greatest atrocities,’ says Dr Dora Akunyili who took on the violent criminal gangs who killed her sister with fake insulin, ‘Mass murder!’ But it’s not only criminals who leave patients to die, as a cover-up by UK pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith Kline reveals.
Click for details on: Africa - The Malaria Parasites
Ferrari – Archive of Lost Dreams– 1-hour film documentary
Closed up for years, the archives of Italy’s racing car genius Enzo Ferrari are reopened - with stunning consequences. Forgotten blueprints are used again to rebuild lost classic cars. But there's a prediction: ‘The private car will die’ as the classics become art history. Go on a test drive!
Click for details on: Ferrari - Archive of Lost Dreams
The Hotel Hibiscus
by Robert Cockburn – a stage and film wartime ghost story...
Wicked drama and satire is sparked as the ghost of Samson, a young bus driver shot dead in a Pacific island war, rises to find his killer at the Hotel Hibiscus where he was working until an hour ago.
Who Dunnit? Soldiers? Rebels? The Australian peace negotiator or even Patty the proprietor? Join Samson at the hotel bar... with one foot in this world and the next.
Click for details on: The Hotel Hibiscus
First produced on stage by Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Arts, NIDA, with the legendary Bob Maza. Workshopped for Melbourne's Play Box Theatre with actor John Howard at Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf Theatre. The screenplay adaptation is funded by the Australian Film Commission. Thanks to the UK National Film and Television School at the outset,
Breathtaking - Human Research Crime
"injuring someone is injuring - whether you do it with a medical product or a baseball bat"
TRAC Productions' frightening new film, Breathtaking Human Research Crime, wins global distribution with Journeyman TV, UK.
We expose the growing international racket of clinical trial abuses, and the top Australian medical figures caught using unwitting Sydney hospital patients to test undisclosed experimental medical devices - causing life-changing injury.
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Mrs Helm Cracks the Secret of Camelot
Dr Joan Helm, the remarkable and fearless explorer of the lost links between ancient literature, science and art, has died. Trac Productions send deep condolences to Candice and all the family. email: tracproductions@gmail.com
Aussie grandma Joan Helm sees something the experts missed to crack the ‘unsolvable’ 800-year secret in the immortal romance at Camelot. Joan opens up a lost history hidden in the earliest medieval manuscript of the love story at the court of King Arthur. It leads to the real 12thC court of Windsor Castle where the literary legend began, to a mighty King and Queen, royal adultery, a divided family, war and an age of momentous discoveries.
Joan overcomes huge obstacles to finally win international recognition and a PhD.
The School of Babel - 1 hour film documentary
The School of Babel - 1 hour film documentary
A Sydney school principal’s ‘crazy’ scheme to cut English lessons to teach migrants their own languages sees English results shoot up! The award-winning documentary The School of Babel reveals an astonishing classroom experiment that saves violent non-performing Tempe High – and a surprise visit by Harvard University.
TRAFFIC
A short political comedy
Now on You Tube, a spookily prophetic comedy of secret political lovers facing disaster. Before Gladys and Daryl, came Australia’s fictitious NSW Transport Minister Rosa and her political rival and lover, Dick. Caught in Sydney traffic, can the conflicted couple escape a corruption rap?
Produced by Robert Cockburn and Elizabeth Tadic
Starring Jenny Apostolou, Hugh Wade, Elizabeth Tadic with guest appearance by radio DJ Robbie Buck
Rejected outright by Tropfest!
Grow – 10 minute film
Made with Australia's then Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove and Lady Cosgrove, the incredible story of a small, virtually unknown self-help group now attracting wealthy mental health too as they together defy Australia’s suicide crisis and save public spending – all free of charge
Click for details on: GROW
Were Australian Aborigines the first astronomers?
Click here for BBC Broadcast: Aboriginal Astronomy (BBC Discovery 2011)
Click for for broadcast: ABC Radio's Science Show
Click for for broadcast on: BBC World Service - Science in Action
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