Value Imagery collaborates with communities to feature and preserve Aboriginal perspectives. We can provide oral history recordings and video interviews with First Nations Elders for cultural maintenance and posterity.

Our approach is conversational and adaptable, whether it’s an individual interview, a yarn on Country or a shared discussion. We give people the time and space to tell their stories in their own way.

Interviews can be filmed in traditional yarning circle or panel formats, with multi-camera setups to capture dynamic visuals that complement storytelling. For oral histories and cultural documentation, we can also create high-quality archival recordings to help preserve knowledge, stories and perspectives for future generations, guided by the permissions, cultural protocols and ICIP considerations established by community.

Value Imagery has experience delivering video projects involving First Nations communities alongside government departments, not-for-profit organisations, schools, service providers and other stakeholders.

We bring this expertise to our video production services for Indigenous communities – such as awareness videos that provide First Nations people with essential information about support services.

These projects often involve multiple layers of consultation, approvals, accessibility requirements, filming permissions and community participation. We work collaboratively through this process while keeping the production practical and focused on the people the communication is intended to reach.

Value Imagery provides ground and aerial cinematography for projects involving Country, cultural education, land management, Ranger programs, environmental initiatives and community documentation.

Value Imagery’s drone pilots are CASA-certified and have experience working across the Northern Rivers and in regional and remote environments. Aerial cinematography can document the relationship between landscape, waterways, community and Country while operating within aviation requirements and the cultural permissions established for the project.

When filming landscapes, culturally significant places or community-held land, we uphold the recording permissions and boundaries set by community.

Value Imagery’s First Nations video production prioritises collaboration. Every project, community and relationship provides an opportunity to listen, learn and improve how we work.

We bring the cameras, sound, lighting, production experience and technical knowledge. Community brings the cultural knowledge, lived experience and authority over its own stories.

By establishing that relationship early, we can focus on creating work that has purpose beyond simply producing another video.

Value Imagery is proud to continue building relationships with First Nations communities and organisations across the Bundjalung Nation and wider Australia Indigenous community.

Cultural safety forms a core part of our video production services. We adapt our involvement to the project – whether that is as the technical partners to a community project, or as creative consultants for Indigenous storytelling.

Before production, we work with the relevant organisation, community representatives, Traditional Owners, Elders or cultural advisers to understand appropriate protocols, permissions and filming boundaries. This includes determining: 

• who should be consulted before filming
• where filming can and cannot occur
• whether particular stories, places, ceremonies or cultural knowledge can be recorded
• who has authority to approve culturally significant material
• how people should be identified and credited
• where and how the finished material will be used
• whether restrictions apply to future publication, editing or reuse

By defining clear filming boundaries with the community early on, we ensure our team is clear on what can be recorded, what can’t, and how the footage can be used throughout production. 

We recognise Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and understand that conventional copyright ownership does not replace cultural ownership, authority or responsibility. Cultural knowledge, stories, language, imagery and other cultural expressions remain connected to the people and communities they belong to, regardless of who may hold copyright in the recorded footage.

Where content includes culturally sensitive knowledge or images and voices of people who have passed, we apply appropriate warnings and honour any restrictions on its use.

All operators hold current Working With Children Checks and police background checks, and we follow cultural protocols of Country.