Education and Training Archives

Category: Education and Training

Pacific migrant workers at graduation

It was an awesome experience filming this special graduation day for the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme. Afterglow captured this community of women from the Pacific Islands receiving diplomas for their studies in Aged Care. It was deeply moving witnessing them go through the theatre of wearing graduation gowns and being honoured on stage before a heavyweight congregation of Masters and PhD graduates. Good to remember that government policy really can transform people’s lives for the better, with migrants.

Yaegl elder Ferlin oversees research into health of local waters

Yaegl Sea Country for schools

The Yaegl Sea Country videos are the latest instalment in a series for NSW primary and secondary students about Indigenous history and practices around the ocean. This focuses on the Yaegl mob around Maclean and Yamba and Afterglow was commissioned to produce this by the Aboriginal Fishing & Marine Conservation unit, Department of Regional NSW.

Yaegl community still rely on their Sea Country knowledge

Michael Power filming EPA officers on site at gold mine

NSW Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) recruitment campaign

The EPA is now looking for new personnel and deliberately recruiting from regional NSW to better reflect the needs of the communities in which so many of the rural businesses operate. Mines, industrial feedlots, and other non-metro capital- and tech-intensive operations are where the agency focuses a lot of its monitoring and testing. The videos that Afterglow is producing during its week-long shoot will show the kind of tasks that incoming Indigenous and non-Indigenous operations officers will undertake. A big part of our challenge was also depicting the careful professional relationships that EPA officers and teams need to establish and maintain with industry operators. It was hard work, but as ever the opportunity to visit places like pristine bushland, coastal rainforest, a gold mine and just generally the big and small towns around the state was a privilege.

Frank on sexual health

Over the last six months Afterglow has taken to the streets to canvas 18-30 year olds for the new federally funded sexual health project, Frank. There is nothing that is left to the imagination as people from across the community are questioned on their understanding of the subject. More coming soon.

Emergency workers and mental health

Keeping the black dog at bay Mental Health Commission NSW Youtube

Meditation and touch footy might not be the silver bullet for keeping stress at bay when dealing with suicides and families decimated by car crash, but along with mindfulness, playing music and other activities it all adds to the suit of armour that emergency workers need to stay sane.

As part of the Mental Health Commission‘s preventative strategy for first responders from NSW emergency services, Afterglow has produced a short documentary for firefighters, police, paramedics and SES volunteers. In it they talk about the psychological pressure of dealing with the worst catastrophes imaginable and containing it with early intervention.

Lew Keilar illustrator storyboard for NHRC

Script Session with Illustrator Lew Keilar

Great scriptwriting and sketching session with illustrator and animator, Lew Keilar who’s working up a series of short whiteboard animations for the documentary on the work of human rights commissions. Watching Lew work his pencil magic is pretty cool, no wonder a lot of his work now involves live drawing, as recently at the Archibald Exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Lifejacket maintenance for NSW Maritime

Lifejacket maintenance shoot for NSW Maritime. Filming lifejacket expert Nick showing how to re-pack jackets after they’ve been checked didn’t exactly get the pulse racing but on the upside it was a spectacularly clear Sydney spring day and the water at Watsons Bay was just sparkling.