Acting

Gary Foley

Acting credits

Backroads poster
6.3

Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.

Backroads

1977

Basically Black poster
NR

Adapted from the stage production of the same name, 'Basically Black' is a sketch comedy TV pilot that aired in 1973, and due to the provocative racial content, ABC never produced another episode. It stands as a historical milestone, the first television program and stage play completely created and written by Aboriginal Australians.

Basically Black

1973

Gulpilil: One Red Blood poster
6.8

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

Gulpilil: One Red Blood

2002

Once Around the Sun poster
NR

AT LAST, the long-lost film inspired by Australia's first rock festival - The Pilgrimage For Pop Festival - at Ourimbah, near Sydney in 1970.

Once Around the Sun

2012

Senses of Cinema poster
1.0

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.

Senses of Cinema

2022

Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe poster
NR

A story of resistance across generations, the power of family and the unrelenting struggle for justice in a country that remains in denial.

Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe

2025

Lionel poster
4.2

Lionel Rose, Australia's first Aboriginal world champion boxing hero - the man behind the myth

Lionel

2008

You Can Go Now! poster
NR

The life and provocative work and writings of First Nations artist, Richard Bell. The film reveals the "two Richards" – "Richie" the provocateur and enfant terrible of the art world who challenges its whiteness, and the Richard who spent his childhood living in a tin shed, learnt his politics on the streets of Redfern and is known in his own community as an "activist".

You Can Go Now!

2023

Behind the camera