Enquire NowCertified Google Adwords ResellerThe team at Visual Obsession understands the logistics, cultural protocols and sensitivities that must be respected while working to achieve the objectives of Indigenous clients.

Visual Obsession staff members have a special interest in and a passion for documenting indigenous cultures for all people to experience and better understand. Let Visual Obsession transform your indigenous health or indigenous education message into a clever documentary or mass communication campaign.

Working with indigenous cultures throughout Queensland, including North QLD to Cape York as well as Torres Strait Islands and Papua New Guinea. This has taught us firsthand how and why indigenous audiences are unique. This practical understanding is why we are repeatedly engaged by government and community councils, including Queensland Health, to create unique and well received indigenous education software for the national HITnet Touch screen kiosk network.

Queensland Health & Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia created this educational DVD to increase awareness of rheumatic fever. 
Rheumatic Heart Disease (Video, 34.56 MB)

Rheumatic Heart Disease

Queensland Health and Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia commissioned Visual Obsession to create an educational video to increase awareness and prevention of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease prevalent in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Starring silver Logie award winner Aaron Fa’aoso and reggae star Lindsay Snider from the Zenith Boyz to engage the 5-15 year old indigenous target market the video is due to be released into remote communities nationally via the Australian Government’s HitNET kiosk network in June/July 2010.
 
Condoman originally based on the comic is now on DVD spreading the good news of safe sex to his Indigenous brothers & sisters. 
HITnet - Condoman (Video, 11.56 MB)

HitNet - Condoman

Distributed nationwide across the HITnet touchescreen kiosk network. Visual Obsession developed a strategy based off a comic book, educating the audience, about sexually transmitted disease. This twelve week campaign was uploaded onto Facebook as a series of YouTube episodes. One of the features of this campaign was a competition where people can upload a photo of themselves and their face can be photoshopped into the Condoman suit. Whoever gets the most “likes” wins an iPod touch with runner-up iTunes credit vouchers.

 
Carer Respite - Commonwealth Respite & Carelink Centre 
Carer Respite (Video, 35.42 MB)

Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre

Visual Obsession was contracted by the Commonwealth Respite & Carelink Centre to film and produce a Video Production to be viewed on Hitnet kiosks right across Queensland. Commonwealth Respite & Carelink Centre engaged us to create a concept which would effectively communicate messages about their service called Respite, which offers indigenous Carers in Cape York Peninsula a break from their caring role. Our goal was to change perceptions and mindsets about Respite so that more Carers would feel confident to access the service and look after themselves. Our professional team travelled throughout Cape York Peninsula interviewing local indigenous Carers & community members in Marpoon, Pormpuraaw & Thursday Island to create stories and messages which Carers in the region would relate to.

 
Department of Environment & Resource Management 
Department of Environment & Resource Management (Youtube)

Department of Environment & Resource Management

In a recent effort by the Queensland Government, The Department of Environment Resource Management put into action a plan to encourage traditional owners of indigenous areas in Cape York Peninsula to make a decision to apply for World Heritage listing.

The Department Of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) contracted Visual Obsession to create a short DVD video to reinforce their message to the indigenous communities in Cape York Peninsula.

Working within a tight timeframe and using clips from our large library of unique footage from Cape York Peninsula, with the help of local indigenous talent William Brady, we created a concept that would effectively engage indigenous traditional owners and communicate DERM’s key messages to them.

 
Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation created DVD documentary about indigenous fatherhood. 
Fatherhood DVD (Video, 35.76 MB)

Indigenous Fathers DVD

Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation commissioned Visual Obsession to create a DVD documentary about indigenous fatherhood. Shot on location in Cairns Aboriginal community, Yarrabah, Indigenous Fathers features interviews with four Yarrabah fathers sharing their experiences of fatherhood including parenting skills and their own personal interpretation of what it means to be a father.
 
GhostNet shadow puppet play production "The young boy and the GhostNet" Filmed on Moa island in the Torres Straits. 
GhostNets - Moa Island (Video, 41.41 MB)

GhostNets Australia

GhostNets Australia is an alliance of 22 indigenous communities and Indigenous Rangers from coastal northern Australia, from the Kimberly region to the Torres Strait, who work together in the removal and recycling of discarded fishing nets and marine debris that litter our coastlines. "GhostNets" drift in the ocean, sometimes for years, choking and killing turtles, fish and other marine life. It also addresses the problems that arise when discarded fishing nets drift to shore and litter the coastal regions of northern Australia. Fresh from our GhostNet Australia workshop film shoot on Erub island in the Torres Strait, Visual Obsession travelled to Moa island (which is one of the many islands that make up the Torres Strait) and shot the GhostNet shadow puppet play production "The Young Man and the Ghost Net". All puppets and props in the play were constructed out of discarded ghost nets and marine debris by local school children and artists. All music, narration and puppetry was also performed by the local school children of Moa island and the St. Paul's church choir. This documentary was selected from numerous video submissions, as one of only nine international documentaries to be highlighted at the 5th International Marine Debris Conference (5IMDC) Movie Night in Hawaii March 2011. The successful outcome for this documentary was to gather momentum not only to educate the children of the Torres Strait, but the entire community, about the destructive nature of drifting GhostNets and how to deal with this problem in their coastal region.

 
Laura Festival, Aboriginal cultural dance Festival. Produce a documentary for the festival called “Laura Legend and Lore”. 
Laura Legend and Lore (Video, 38.23 MB)

Laura Legend and Lore

A biennial event, the Laura Festival is one of the largest Aboriginal cultural dance Festivals in Australia. Visual Obsession obtained exclusive rights to film and photograph and produce a 24 minute documentary for the festival. In March 2006, Imparja Television broadcast the production. The response from the Aboriginal communities throughout Cape York was fantastic. The production team arrived at the ceremonial grounds on Thursday afternoon ready for the first corroborees to start on the Friday afternoon. Once the ceremonies and dancing began, it was non-stop action for three days. Starting each day at 6am and continuing through until midnight, the production team worked around the clock to keep on top of equipment maintenance in the dusty environment.
 
Gurriny Yealamucka - Dental Health Video 
Dental Health Video (Video, 37.72 MB)

Gurriny Yealamucka - Dental Health Video

Visual Obsession scripted, edited and filmed a dental health education and awareness video targeting indigenous youth and adolescents from Cairns Aboriginal community, Yarrabah. Commissioned by Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation, the video features local boxing personality, Fred Mundraby educating the audience about how and why they need to brush their teeth and maintain a good diet and oral hygiene.
 
Royal Flying Doctors Service, Lockhart River Council and HITnet alongside Visual Obsession produced a series of documentaries. 
ETP - Lockhart River Bush Food Dry (RFDS) (Video, 6.19 MB)

Lockhart River Bush Food - Royal Flying Doctor Service

Visual Obsession was contracted by the Royal Flying Doctors Service, Lockhart River Council and Hitnet to produce a series of documentary stories. The objective of this production is to promote physical activity and a healthy diet in the Lockhart River Community. The filming took place over a period of 12 months, to gather information about bush foods over the range of different seasons. Two distinct seasons were filmed, the wet season and the dry season bush foods of the Lockhart River area and Iron Range national park. The video productions were exported and uploaded to the touch screen kiosks, which are located in medical centres throughout Australia.
 
Deadly Dinners, healthy eating DVD aimed at teaching indigenous audiences to “go for 2 & 5” serves of fresh fruit & vegetables. 
Deadly Dinners (Video, 36.7 MB)

Deadly Dinners

Visual Obsession shot and scripted Deadly Dinners, an educational healthy eating DVD aimed at teaching indigenous audiences to “go for 2 & 5” serves of fresh fruit and vegetables each day. Starring prominent indigenous personality Damon Leftwich, the DVD contains 4 recipes, kitchen hygiene, food preparation and storage tips and is distributed as a standalone disc and via the Australian Government’s HitNET kiosk network.
 
Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation created series of indigenous specific early childhood reading books.

Gurriny Yealamucka - Books for Babies

In conjunction with Queensland Health and Gurriny Yealamucka Health Services Aboriginal Corporation, Visual Obsession developed a series of indigenous specific early childhood reading books. Complimented by large posters in schools and community centres, books for babies combined indigenous themed story lines about nutrition and health activities with photos of real Yarrabah community members and colourful graphics to create publications that were interesting and relevant to their audience.