From his earliest memories, David Batty can recall a lifetime of going bush, camping, canoeing, bushwalking and adventuring with his family on the South Coast of NSW. As a young single father, he moved to Alice Springs in 1981, where a whole new world presented itself. He wasted little time in exploring Central Australia and pursuing his passion to create media, especially for and with Aboriginal people. He was asked to establish the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) TV unit and took on four Aboriginal trainees in the process. He worked towards gaining a satellite broadcast licence and TV station now known as Imparja Television. Over the next 12 years, David established his own production company that travelled extensively throughout the Northern Territory and Northern South Australia, working with Aboriginal people in creating a vast array of films and videos. He created documentaries, health promotions, film clips, children's films, as well as content about human rights, land care and land rights, the list goes on - all predominantly in Aboriginal languages and often with pre-European-contact people. His most notable work at this time was the creation of the hit TV series Bush Mechanics. Moving to Broome in 1993, David expanded his repertoire of TV productions and teamed up with producer Jenny McMahon to write, shoot and direct several one-hour documentaries and TV series. Just as with his time in Central Australia, 12 years in the Kimberley gave David a rare insight into the country and those who live and work there: pearlers, stockmen, rodeo champs, singers, artists, dancers, and keepers of the songlines. With their reputation gaining momentum, David and Jenny established Rebel Films in Melbourne, where they continued making films and TV series for SBS and ABC. Of note was the epic tale of the last known massacre of Aboriginal people in 1928, Coniston (ABC). In 2015, David was approached to make a TV show with four young men in Northeast Arnhem Land. This seven-year journey has seen David create four seasons of Black As. Season 1 and 2 were made for ABC and season 3 and 4 for an array of social media platforms. Season 4 alone has now racked up over 200 million views worldwide. In 2016, ABC featured David in an episode of Australian Story titled "One of the Mob", which detailed his life and living legacy supporting Indigenous filmmaking. Leaving Broome behind, David bought 300 acres of bush on the far South Coast of NSW and lives off grid in his hand-built home. Now in his mid-sixties and with close to 40 years' experience as a storyteller, innovator and purveyor of bush knowhow, David is primed to extend his deep knowledge and understanding of what's out there, how to get there and what to do along the way ... and how to survive while doing it.