OETHICA GROUP PRODUCTIONS
Engaging through ethical conduct to ensure
the wellbeing of others.
PRINCIPAL PARTNERS
Our life’s journey brought us together and we have formed an Australian business ‘Family Partnership’ in which we combine our skills and knowledge for service delivery, whilst maintaining our personal and professional relationships with our respective networks. We collaborate with individuals, businesses, and organisations who demonstrate through their own activities, a commitment to ethical conduct that upholds the wellbeing of others.
Dr Alexander Hayes
BA (Education), BA (Art), BFA (Hons), PhD (Computing & Information Technology)
Dr. Alexander Hayes is a Scottish Australian artist and scholar with a PhD. by thesis, focussed on the social and ethical implications of emergent technologies. As an entrepreneur, his enduring conceptual inquiry emanates from collaborative co-design, often encompassing intercultural partnerships, human rights and social justice themes.
Hayes is an acclaimed and award winning creative, as executive producer of short film and feature documentaries, photographer, printmaker, painter, sculptor, and audio-phonic installation artist. Alexander is also a non-fiction biographical ethnographer, currently leveraging artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies to write decentralised social-fiction Web3Lit narratives.
With a reputation for emancipatory, cross-cultural, and quality-driven social action initiatives over three decades, Hayes has instigated, managed and led project teams through rigorous cultural action and academic research inquiry. Hayes engages across many international networks, national communities of practice, and cross-discipline authorship initiatives to produce special issue articles, opinion positions statements, book chapters, conference papers and presentations published in peer-review and open access data journals.
As a principal partner with Oethica Group Productions and co-producer of Ngikalikarra Media, Hayes ethically co-designs online solutions, manages projects and administers information systems with First Nations leaders, charitable foundations, NGOs and their corporate partners.
Dr Magali McDuffie
PGDip. (Translation), MA (Languages & Linguistics), MA (Film & Television), Grad.Cert. (Cultural Heritage), PhD (Indigenous Studies).
Dr Magali McDuffie is an internationally awarded filmmaker, accomplished researcher, and consummate educator with over 17 years' experience working in culturally diverse regional and remote projects both as a filmmaker and academic researcher. She has worked for 17 years with Aboriginal communities throughout Australia, on internationally recognised documentaries as well as numerous film projects with Aboriginal media organisations. Privileging a listening approach, her films are the result of close collaborations with communities and individuals whose voices are not being heard in the mainstream media. Using the camera as an emancipatory tool, Magali is passionate about exposing injustice, and creating a dialogue around human rights, agency, and social justice.
Download Magali McDuffie’s PhD thesis titled ‘Jimbin Kaboo Yimardoowarra Marninil: Listening to Nyikina women's voices, from the inside to the outside’, focused on Nyikina women's agency in an intergenerational journey of cultural actions, economic, and self-determination initiatives, through film at https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/165459.
CORRESPONDENCE
All correspondence can be directed to the Principal Partners of Oethica Group Productions. We will endeavour to address your contact enquiry as soon as possible.
SERVICES
Our core service can be described as ‘Media Production and Broadcasting’, with additional services including research, teaching, web design, website development, digital productions, print publications, projects and data management. We publish our independent filmmaking co-productions as ‘Ngikalikarra Media’ through our Youtube, Vimeo, and Zenodo accounts.
STATUS
Our formal business partnership was registered with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) on the 12th January 2017 as ‘Ngikalikarra Media’, evolving into a ‘Family Partnership’ on the 14th of August 2020 (ABN 20 369 203 466).