GOOLARRI MEDIA

Ramu Productions

A First Nations production company, telling Indigenous stories through an Indigenous lens

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Ramu Productions is an Australian Indigenous owned and managed content production company based in Broome, Western Australia. We specialise in telling Indigenous stories through an Indigenous lens and pride ourselves on training and developing First Nations filmmakers.

Our main focus is documentary, but we have also produced drama and children's content and currently have an exciting and diverse slate of projects.

Our Commitment

Fostering young and emerging Indigenous media practitioners and providing opportunities to develop their skills in the film and television industry

Team Member Name

Jodie Bell

CEO & Ramu Producer

Jodie Bell is a proud Butchella and Jagera woman from Southeast Queensland and is CEO and Producer at Ramu Productions in Broome, WA. Jodie has produced numerous award winning short narrative and documentary films. Jodie has also produced two short documentary series’ for NITV. Jodie was Co-Producer on the award winning feature documentary “Putuparri and the Rainmakers” in 2015.

Team Member Name

Divina McPherson

Development & Associate Producer

Devina McPherson is a proud Widi Yamatji and Noongar woman from Western Australia and has worked as the First Nations Executive at Screenwest for factual and scripted content, and as Series Producer and Production Manager at the Film and Television Institute (FTI), based in Fremantle. At FTI, Devina was instrumental in completing The Indigenous Community Stories (ICS) project, a hundred First Nations documentary films that went on to be broadcast nationally by the ABC, SBS and NITV, and also became part of the permanent exhibition at the WA Museum.

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Our Filmography

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2026
Drama

G.O.A.T.

When Lilah is challenged to find a NAIDOC Ball date from your cousin Dale, she meets the new girl , Rosie, and falls hard for her, but since Lilah isn’t sure Rosie is even queer, she’ll have to do some serious sleuthing to find out.

Duration: 11 min
Format: HD

Director: Kimberley Benjamin

Producer: Jodie Bell/Divina McPherson

Writer: Kimberley Benjamin

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2025
Drama

Warm Props

Caught between set life and home life, Charlie Flogim is thrust back to her hometown of Broome where she is forced to deal with a chaotic film shoot and face the one person she vowed never to see again.

Duration: 6 x 10 min
Format: HD

Director: Jub Clerc/Kimberley Benjamin

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Jub Clerc/Kimberley Benjamin

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2025
Drama

Yokai

This webseries tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman who navigates religion and identity.

Duration: 5 x 5 min
Format: HD

Director: Ngaire Pigram

Producer: Jodie Bell/Brooke Collard

Writer: Brooke Collard

🎬
2023
Documentary

Larapinta

Arrernte and Luritja woman Talia Liddle travels through the Central Australian outback along Larapinta, the oldest river in the world, meeting the people who call the river home and hearing stories of the river.

Duration: 6 x 24 min
Format: HD

Director: Gary Hamaguchi

Producer: Mitchell Stanley/Michaela Perske

Co-Production between No Coincidence Media, Purskey Productions & Ramu Productions

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2021
Drama

Lost Crystals of Jessica's Room

Two kids play a game where they use a treasure map to find a crystal in their backyard, but the treasure is not what is seems.

Duration: 10 min
Format: HD

Director: Gary Hamaguchi

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Gary Hamaguchi

🎭
2019
Drama

Doug the Human

An Alien kidnaps a human man and turns him into her pet.

Duration: 15 min
Format: HD

Director: Gary Hamaguchi

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Gary Hamaguchi

🎬
2019
Documentary

Saving Seagrass

On our watch Seagrass is disappearing at the rate of a football field every hour, yet is it 35 more times more efficient at capturing CO2 than a rainforest. Can Indigenous people and Scientists collaborate in time to save it?

Duration: 26 min
Format: HD

Director: Gary Hamaguchi

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Bessy-May Taylor/Gary Hamaguchi

🎬
2019
Documentary

First Time Home

A young baby is introduced to her father’s Yawuru country for the first time. She is guided by the spirit and voice of Country, as she travels from Melbourne to Broome with her parents and when she arrives she experiences all that it means to meet and connect with Country for the first time.

Duration: 16 min
Format: HD

Director: Kimberley Benjamin

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Kimberley Benjamin

🎬
2018
Documentary

Riiji Carver

Aubrey Tigan is an renowned pearl shell carver whose work is informed from his homelands, the islands of the Bucaneer archipelago, a place the missionaries removed him from as a young boy. Aubrey takes his grandchildren on his last journey to their country to try and imprint the stories of the country and his art to the young grandchildren before it is too late.

Duration: 24 min
Format: HD

Director: Nigel Abbott/Kimberley West

Producer: Jodie Bell

🎬
2018
Documentary

Yulleroo

Fracking - should we or shouldn't we? There is a conflict brewing between the Yawuru people of Broome, spearheaded by Traditional Owner, Micklo Corpus, and the Buru Energy Company, who want to extract gas from Yawuru Country using hydraulic fracturing. Yulleroo is the story of Micklo - to many a hero and protector of country, to some a lone fanatic, as he fights to protect his country from fracking.

Duration: 14 min
Format: HD

Director: Bessy-May Taylor

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Bessy-May Taylor

🎭
2018
Drama

Fishing

Johno and Tommy are not your typical father and son – they have a strained relationship that sometimes seems like their roles are reversed. Finally Johno pushes Tommy too far whilst they are out on another fishing trip and they both learn to accept and respect each other’s ways.

Duration: 9 min
Format: HD

Director: Gary Hamaguchi

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Gary Hamaguchi

🎬
2017
Documentary

Songlines on Screen 2: Marrimarrigun

The story of two young men out hunting, who get ripped from the mainland by ferocious tides and are saved by Marrimarri, the giant spirit. Marrimarri's daughter marry the men and their families become the foundation of the Yawuru nation.

Duration: 13 min
Format: HD

Director: Kimberley West

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Dot West

🎬
2015
Documentary

Songlines on Screeen 1: Naji

A story from the Bugarregarre time (the Dreamtime) when the spirit beings came out of the ocean, and woke up the silent, barren land as they moved from Dabberdabbergun in the west to the land of the rising sun, creating life and importantly, water, as they travel.

Duration: 9 min
Format: HD

Director: Kimberley West

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Dot West

🎭
2014
Drama

Maap Mordak

A distraught young girl confused about her own identity finds answers and comfort from an unlikely source.

Duration: 7 min
Format: HD

Director: Dot West

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Dot West

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2012
Drama

In The Air

Jealousy is a Curse. She’s her own worst enemy, jealous, impulsive, sabotages herself, awake or asleep in snagging her man, who is a reluctant player when it comes to messing with his little piece of paradise.

Duration: 12 min
Format: HD

Director: Kimberley West

Producer: Jodie Bell

Writer: Dot West