Prior to 2011, Year 8 students studied a single film as text, "Yolngu Boy." This had been on the syllabus for several years, and the consensus was that it was time to review the unit, refresh the text and introduce multiple film texts that would present varying visions and perspectives of notions of what it is to be "Australian". The authors aimed to introduce their students to a selection of films with an Indigenous focus to challenge existing ideas about Australian identity. The title of the unit, "New Visions", reflects this aim. "Yolngu Boy" is an age-appropriate, rich Australian text that examined the coming-of-age themes common to the bildungsroman within a cultural frame quite alien to most of the students, so they did not intend to remove it completely from the syllabus. However, it was agreed that a whole unit (which equates to between eight and 10 weeks) based on one film was unlikely to fully engage, challenge or sufficiently broaden the perspectives of the students.