Film still, First Lesson (2017), Backbone Productions

Sept 2024
We’re very proud to have produced and contributed a short film and visuals to the Australian National Maritime Museum's ‘Garrigarrang Garaguru - Saltwater Cloud’, which just won an AMaGA award for ‘Best Digital Interface’. Check out this beautifully designed digital experience and watch our short film ‘Shaped By The Sea. Sharon Mason - Connections to Sea Country’, which explores the story and art of shell gathering and shaping walkamara - fish hooks from abalone shells. Congratulations to all involved on this exquisite work and achievement!

June 2024
Our new on-line film series co-produced with Firesticks Alliance is released, Journey of a Cultural Fire Practitioner. Over a year in the making and taking us along the east coast of Australia from Far North Queensland to lutruwita, Tasmania, this project was a real honour to witness and document the new generation of Indigenous Fire and Land Management Practitioners emerging.

March 2024
Our short film No Distance Between Us is available to watch on SBS On Demand in Australia. No Distance Between Us tells the story of the discovery of the world’s largest collection of ancient human footprints in Mungo National Park, through the voices of the Barkandji, Mutthi Mutthi and Ngiyampaa people. 

Feb 2024
Our cinematography and editing work for artist Daniel Mudie Cunningham's Proud Mary performance is on exhibition at Manly Art Gallery and Museum until 14 April. On permanent exhibition at MONA, Tasmania; and previously exhibited at Wollongong Art Gallery, the Sydney premiere of Proud Mary is curated by Ben Rak as part of the Sydney Mardi Gras festival.

Dec 2023
Our Gurangatch and Mirragan film collaboration with Gundungurra Elder, Aunty Sharyn Halls is in the group exhibition Ngurra Bayala (Country speaks) showcasing First Nations video works from the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (NGA) and Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Collections. Co-curated by Leanne Tobin and Rilka Oakley. Exhibiting until Dec 2025.

Sept 2023
Our cinematography in Many Hands Make Light Work for contemporary artists' dynamic duo Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, is exhibited in their show Messages In The Sky at Mudgee Arts Precinct.

Oct 2023
Our short film Yarning About Country, showcasing Traditional Custodians' cultural stories across the rich cultural landscape of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area is showcased at the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) General Assembly 2023 and released online by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.

June 2023
Our cinematography and editing work for artist Daniel Mudie Cunningham's latest iteration of his funeral song performed every 5 years since 2007, Proud Mary, is on exhibition as part of the epic, insightful and moving survey show at Wollongong Art Gallery, 'Are You There', curated by James Gatt. Showing until 10 Sept 2023.

May 2023
Shaped by The Sea - our short film about Yuin artist and knowledge holder Sharon Mason’s deep connections to sea country, shell gathering and making walkamara/abalone fish hooks, commissioned by the Australian National Maritime Museum, launches on a beautifully crafted new digital experience Garrigarrang Garaguru, available to watch here. 

March 2023
Let Me Pass Onto You is curated into the group exhibition No Easy Answers by MAMA director Bree Pickering. Featured Artists include Ella Barclay (AU), Christopher Hanrahan (AU/USA), Vera Hong (AU), Tracey Moffatt (AU/USA), Vitche-Boul Ra (USA), Wilmer Wilson IV (USA). Until 16 July 2023.

January 2023
Our Gurangatch and Mirragan film collaboration with Gundungurra Elder, Aunty Sharyn Halls is in the group exhibition WATER presence & absence at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre curated by Rilka Oakley. Until 29 January 2023.

September 2022
Our collaborative video work Murungidyal Ngurambang - Healing Country, made with Mudgee Local Aboriginal Land Council exhibits in a group show Ngayirr Ngurambang: Sacred Country curated by Wiradjuri woman, Aleshia Lonsdale. Mudgee Arts Precinct until 11 December 2022.

September 2022
Soft launch of the short film we filmed and edited, We Are The Trees on permanent display at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. With director Victor Steffensen and creative producer Jacqueline Gothe. Music composition by Natalia Mann and Merindi Schrieber. Sound engineering by Patty Preece.

July 2022
Fondation Cartier, Paris launches a new website dedicated to the extraordinary late Aboriginal Kaiadilt Artist Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori featuring our cinematography work with the Gabori family and Fondation Cartier curator Juliette Lecorne. Navigate to Sally's legacy to hear from Sally's family.

July 2022
Orange Regional Gallery tours the video work we made for artist Liam Benson ‘hello, good to meet you’ - originally commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bella Room.

July 2022
Adorned – Wisdom, Memory and Song , the 21 minute 2-channel video installation we filmed and edited featuring collaborative performances and handmade wearables by a diverse community of Western Sydney artists and makers with Creative Directors Liam Benson and Kiri Morcombe, tours to Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra.

June 2022
The Eucalyptusdom exhibition, which includes our video installation Let Me Pass Onto You at the the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, Sydney is awarded Best Installation at the Australian Interior Design Awards for the design work by SJB in collaboration with Richard Leplastrier and Vania Contreras.

June 2022
Cinematography and editing for artists Daniel Mudie Cunnningham and Wart's performance video Drawing Breath, for the group exhibition There's A Crack In Everything at Wollongong Art Gallery. Curated by local mental health and suicide prevention advocate and visual art curator Carrie Lumby.

May 2022
Vera Hong participates in Eucalypts in A Changing Climate, an interdisciplinary conversation around climate change, culture, art and science at Western Sydney's EucFACE groundbreaking experiment - the world's only Free Air CO2 Enrichment research facility in native Australian forest. With Dharug artist and educator Chris Tobin, EucFace researcher and scientist Ben Moore and naturalist Wyn Jones. Part of the Powerhouse Museum Eucalyptusdom Public Programs, Producer Bec Gallo and Curator Nina Earl.

February 2022
Echo. Follow. The 2-channel video work we filmed and edited for artist Liam Benson, premieres in his latest solo exhibition You Already Know, Glasshouse Port Macquarie.

October 2021
The Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo, Sydney premieres a new commissioned 2 channel sensory video installation work, Let Me Pass Onto You as part of the group exhibition Eucalyptusdom. Curated by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Sarah Rees, Emily McDaniel and Nina Earl.

October 2021
No Distance Between Us is a finalist in Best Indigenous Video or Website category, Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Awards, 2021.

October 2021
No Distance Between Us screens at Environmental Film Festival Australia, 2021.

September 2021
A documentary living archive project spanning 4 years in the making with Firesticks Alliance and Yuin Traditional Custodians and featuring over 20 short films is officially released online, The Good Fire, Dharrawal-Yuin Ngurra.

November 2020
No Distance Between Us premieres in the United Kingdom at Kendal Mountain Festival, 2020.

June 2020
No Distance Between Us screens at St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia 2020 (an Academy Award qualifying festival).

August 2020
 No Distance Between Us screens at Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2020, USA (an Academy Award qualifying festival).

May 2020
Honoured to have our documentary Willandra Wisdom Walk, streamed on SBS On Demand for National Reconciliation Week 2020.

Feb 2020
No Distance Between Us screens at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana USA (an Academy Award qualifying festival).

January 2020
Australian Geographic features our short film on Richard Swain's Alpine River Adventures wilderness rafting experience in the Snowy Mountains.

Dec 2019
No Distance Between Us screens in Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival, India 2019.

October 2019
No Distance Between Us screens in Sydney, Australia for the Antenna International Documentary Film Festival. Press release.

August 2019
Our short documentary No Distance Between Us, screens at the Global Impact Film Festival, Washington D.C, USA.

July 2019
Honoured to visit the Australian Museum to see our short film No Distance Between Us, on permanent display in the new Bayala Nura (Yarning Country) First Australians Gallery.

June 2019
Privileged to partner with and film the National Indigenous Fire Workshop on Yorta Yorta country at Dhungala, Victoria.

May 2019
Proud to be shortlisted for a National Trust Heritage Award for our film series on Kinchega National Park.

January 2019
Honoured to have our documentary Willandra Wisdom Walk, broadcast on SBS National Indigenous Television on Australia Day.