Chemical Media

Our African Roots is the first documentary to feature an African-Australian host actively interrogating Australia’s colonial history. Commissioned by Australian multicultural broadcaster SBS, the ground-breaking film challenges a nation that spent much of the 20th Century advocating for a racially exclusive White Australia to confront its multiracial past.

An exploration of the work of a new generation of young Muslim artists, who use their work to explore issues of faith and identity and what it means to be Muslim and Australian in the 21st century.

The extraordinary story of Australia's forgotten Islamic archipelago and the two communities who inhabit it. One a band of voluntary Aussie castaways, and the other the Cocos Malay people who are seeking to preserve their culture, and assert their identity as the original inhabitants of one of the remotest atolls on earth.