Roar has a number of television and digital media projects at various stages of development. The list below features a selection of these projects.
Founders and Survivors Storylines
A multifaceted broadcast and online project that springs from one of the world’s great historical studies of immigration, forced labour and settlement. The Founders & Survivors database follows 72,000 convict men and women over five generations to build a unique portrait of modern society in the making. Founders and Survivors Storylines interprets and interacts with the amazing life stories and experiences held in this remarkable set of digital records using the all the tools of interactive online, social networks, mobile and the music of acclaimed singers and songwriters from Australia, UK, Canada and Ireland.
Partnership with Founders and Survivors ARC - Melbourne University, University of Tasmania, University of Guelph, Canada, Tasmanian Archives, British Archives (in negotiation)
Part financed Australia
Broadcast and Online
A multifaceted broadcast and online project that springs from one of the world’s great historical studies of immigration, forced labour and settlement. The Founders & Survivors database follows 72,000 convict men and women over five generations to build a unique portrait of modern society in the making. Founders and Survivors Storylines interprets and interacts with the amazing life stories and experiences held in this remarkable set of digital records using the all the tools of interactive online, social networks, mobile and the music of acclaimed singers and songwriters from Australia, UK, Canada and Ireland.
Partnership with Founders and Survivors ARC - Melbourne University, University of Tasmania, University of Guelph, Canada, Tasmanian Archives, British Archives (in negotiation)
Part financed Australia
Broadcast and Online
Convict Survivors
History, genealogy factual series
The Tasmanian Convict records are the most detailed records of a society ever produced prior to the 20th Century. Using these unique records we will create a highly engaging factual television series that combines convict genealogy with real life history. This series looks at the individual life stories of convicts through the prism of their descendants in both Australia and their countries of origin; UK, Ireland, Canada and the US.
History, genealogy factual series
The Tasmanian Convict records are the most detailed records of a society ever produced prior to the 20th Century. Using these unique records we will create a highly engaging factual television series that combines convict genealogy with real life history. This series looks at the individual life stories of convicts through the prism of their descendants in both Australia and their countries of origin; UK, Ireland, Canada and the US.
The Bone Wars
What should happen to the dead? Set in the time before anatomy was regulated, this is the scandalous life and death story of William Lanney, an Indigenous man who had the misfortune to be thought the last of his race. Moving back and forth between Britain and the island penal colony of Tasmania, this forensic gothic history uncovers the events and upstanding medical men of science whose obsession with securing Lanney’s skull led them to trade in human remains. It is a tale that still haunts contemporary life.
Science History Feature Doc
What should happen to the dead? Set in the time before anatomy was regulated, this is the scandalous life and death story of William Lanney, an Indigenous man who had the misfortune to be thought the last of his race. Moving back and forth between Britain and the island penal colony of Tasmania, this forensic gothic history uncovers the events and upstanding medical men of science whose obsession with securing Lanney’s skull led them to trade in human remains. It is a tale that still haunts contemporary life.
Science History Feature Doc
Death or Liberty
History documentary series
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today’s ‘terrrorists’ – to the shores of Australia. Sent as convicts to the other side of the world, these political prisoners included liberals, democrats and republicans; machine breakers, food rioters, trade unionists and Chartists; Irish revolutionaries, Scottish Jacobins, and Canadian and even American insurgents. The story is told through the vivid first-hand accounts of those still revered as heroes and martyrs, freedom fighters and patriots in their homelands. Author Tony Moore will write this engrossing series. Based on his acclaimed book.
History documentary series
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today’s ‘terrrorists’ – to the shores of Australia. Sent as convicts to the other side of the world, these political prisoners included liberals, democrats and republicans; machine breakers, food rioters, trade unionists and Chartists; Irish revolutionaries, Scottish Jacobins, and Canadian and even American insurgents. The story is told through the vivid first-hand accounts of those still revered as heroes and martyrs, freedom fighters and patriots in their homelands. Author Tony Moore will write this engrossing series. Based on his acclaimed book.
Southern Science Town
Popular Science Documentary Series 6 X 26'
With unprecedented, open door access, Southern Science Town takes us behind the scenes to observe not only the vitally important cutting edge Southern Ocean science, but also the compelling personal stories of triumph, disaster, competition and dedication that are at the heart of scientific research.
Popular Science Documentary Series 6 X 26'
With unprecedented, open door access, Southern Science Town takes us behind the scenes to observe not only the vitally important cutting edge Southern Ocean science, but also the compelling personal stories of triumph, disaster, competition and dedication that are at the heart of scientific research.
Operation Thumper
Introduced rabbits on the remote wind swept World Heritage Macquarie Island are out of control. They threaten to destroy the land and bird life of this once pristine, Sub-Antarctic island. In 2011 Parks Tasmania’s multinational team of dogs and their trainers, precision chopper pilots and rangers are staging an audacious and dangerous operation to wipe them out.
Observational nature science
Introduced rabbits on the remote wind swept World Heritage Macquarie Island are out of control. They threaten to destroy the land and bird life of this once pristine, Sub-Antarctic island. In 2011 Parks Tasmania’s multinational team of dogs and their trainers, precision chopper pilots and rangers are staging an audacious and dangerous operation to wipe them out.
Observational nature science
Aurora's Gaze
This feature documentary tells a little known history of the father of Federation, Sir Henry Parkes, seen through the eyes of his great grand-daughter, Melinda Standish. Development has been supported by Screen Tasmania.
This feature documentary tells a little known history of the father of Federation, Sir Henry Parkes, seen through the eyes of his great grand-daughter, Melinda Standish. Development has been supported by Screen Tasmania.
Local Heroes
Online and broadcast interstitial project for primary school students. The concept is disarmingly simple, to get young people to work together to make short films about the unsung heroes in their communities. The Website will provide an interactive toolkit to assist teachers and students and the best of user-generated content selected for broadcast.
Online and broadcast interstitial project for primary school students. The concept is disarmingly simple, to get young people to work together to make short films about the unsung heroes in their communities. The Website will provide an interactive toolkit to assist teachers and students and the best of user-generated content selected for broadcast.
