Beck Cole is an Australian filmmaker of the Warramungu and Luritja nations. She is known for her work on numerous TV series, including First Australians, Grace Beside Me, Black Comedy and Wentworth, as well as documentaries and short films. She is based in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory.
An Australian Aboriginal DJ realizes that his job at the country radio station is about more than just playing music.
Release Date2005-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Assistant Director
Charactersd Radio Announcer (voice)
Based on the true story of a young girl who went missing in the Australian outback in 1932.
Release Date2001-06-07
Charactersd Women's Helper
Vote Count7
Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.
Release Date2023-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count101
Six extraordinary stories one unmissable series. Redfern Now is the first drama series written, directed and produced by Indigenous Australians.
Release Date2012-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
An English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey together.
Release Date2022-08-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
Cate Walford's relationship with vicious, business tycoon husband, Phillip, is on the ropes and their tempestuous home life is trapped in a tangled web of lies and manipulation. Through a shocking twist of fate, this dark and murky world collides with the seemingly disparate and disconnected, warm and loving world of a widow and her footy star son and musical daughter.
Release Date2020-07-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Little J, he's five and Big Cuz, she's nine. They're a couple of Indigenous Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog.
Release Date2017-04-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
A sketch comedy show by Blackfellas... for everyone! Featuring a fantastic ensemble cast of Indigenous writers and performers and includes many special guest cameo appearances. Meet some of the lively characters including, the Tiddas - two of the most competitive, over the top gay Blackfellas; Mavis the mean-mouthed cleaning woman; the Housewives of Narromine and Deadly Dave who can fix anything. Black Comedy is irreverent, politically incorrect and goes where no other series can go.
Release Date2014-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. The two teenagers soon discover that life outside the community can be cruel. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges.
Release Date2009-05-07
DepartmentWriting
JobCo-Writer
Vote Count57
A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.
Release Date2002-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count2
First Australians is an Australian historical documentary series produced by Blackfella Films over the course of six years, and first aired in October 2008. The documentary is part of a greater project that further consists of a hard-cover book, a community outreach program and a substantial website featuring over 200 mini-documentaries. The series chronicles the history of contemporary Australia, from the perspective of its first people, or Aborigines. The series is essentially a synthesis of well documented historical information. It relies heavily on archival documents and interpretations from historians and members of both the Indigenous and European community and leaders. The story begins in 1788 in Sydney, with the arrival of the First Fleet and ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. The series comprises seven episodes in which it explores what unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was confronted by the British Empire. It explores the lives of particular individuals and uses their stories as a vehicle to explain the larger situations of the time. It explains violent aspects of European settlement of Australia, such as killings, battles, wars, as well as acts of friendship and decency between the early European settlers and Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australian history has until recently been clouded by the "great Australian silence" where ignorance of the real history of Australia can be seen as a way for non-Indigenous to hide shame for their own history. In this respect it has been controversial in that many of these stories have not been portrayed on Australian television before and the Indigenous Australian perspective of European settlement is confrontational for many.
Release Date2008-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopian future – this landmark collection traces the collective histories of Indigenous peoples across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Diverse in perspective, content and form, traversing the terrain of grief, love and dispossession, they each bear witness to these cultures’ ongoing struggles against patriarchy, colonialism and racism.
Release Date2023-02-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
An Australian remake of the BBC dark comedy about two feuding siblings who are forced to work together when an accidental hit-and-run death spirals wildly out of control in their hometown, Fremantle.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living in Alice Springs.
Release Date2003-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Assistant Director
A woman living in a deserted mining camp might not be the only person hiding out there.
Release Date2005-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
'Here I Am' is driven by three generations of Aboriginal women - Karen Lee Burden, her mother Lois and her daughter Rosie. When Karen is released from prison, through a series of chance encounters the women learn that freedom is hard to find when hearts are still broken.
Release Date2011-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
SPINFX is a fast and funky showcase of contemporary Indigenous music, artists and performers. It explores the most recent Indigenous music being produced in Australia such as hip hop, techno, house, dance and turn tables. Stylistically, the series is raw and fast mixing black and white with vibrant colours and grainy imagery. With no presenter, its audience is guided by the Indigenous people who make the music and those who listen to it.
Release Date2000-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
15-year-old Marnie, Handycam at her side, captures a day in the life of her housing project.
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This moving documentary is a record of a few hours in the life of a small 7 year old boy, Ricco, from Hidden Valley, one of the many town camps on the outskirts of Alice Springs. He has lived in the camp for most of his life, and is looked after by his three older sisters and his foster mother, Nanna Maudie.
Release Date2004-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
SPINFX is a fast and funky showcase of contemporary Indigenous music, artists and performers. It explores the most recent Indigenous music being produced in Australia such as hip hop, techno, house, dance and turn tables. Stylistically, the series is raw and fast mixing black and white with vibrant colours and grainy imagery. With no presenter, its audience is guided by the Indigenous people who make the music and those who listen to it.
Release Date2000-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Jessie Bartlett a shy 18 year old girl, learns the lores of love from her mischievous Pintubi grandmothers, Mijili, Nancy and Kumanjayi. A film about relationships and culture set in the desert.
Release Date2005-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
