Ronin Films, with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, will progressively release some 30 remastered films of ethnographic and historical significance through 2013. They are destined for the education market, where there is high demand and a dearth of indigenous content.
When the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies was established as a statutory authority in 1964, it quickly created a film unit to serve as an archive of material already on film and to also record material of its own that it considered of national ethnographic and historical significance.
