The NSW Aboriginal Legal Service is trying to change the high incarceration rate among young Indigenous people by helping them make films about the consequences of crime.

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Young Indigenous people are 24 times more likely to be in custody than non-Indigenous youths.

Last night young people travelled from Wagga Wagga, Bourke and Moruya for the premiere of their work in Redfern, Sydney.

The short films were made by people aged 12 to 17.

The project was funded by the Law and Justice Foundation to help educate young people about the legal system.

Fourteen-year-old Kade Dixon from Bourke in the state's north-west made a film about a group of young people who steal some scooters.

"The first one we made was Think Twice Before you Steal and it's a story about some kids stealing another kid's scooter from the wharf," he said.

Twelve-year-old Katie Brooksen was in another film about domestic violence in Bourke.

"I pretty much did everything, I did some filming, I helped write the script and I played a role in the video," she said.

"There's heaps of domestic violence so we're trying to give the message, and I think they might listen because it's local people in our community."

Young people just 'going down the wrong track'

Young people from Moruya on the far south coast made a film about three young footballers who are ready to play before a NRL scout.

One of the boys steals a pair of boots at the local sport shops and gets arrested.

Peaches stopped offending last year when she made a promise to her grandfather. ( ABC News: Lindy Kerin )

Seventeen-year-old Peaches said the group from Moruya wanted to show the consequences of crime.

"Young kids with a lot of opportunities that can do great in life and just going down the wrong track," she said.

"They have a lot of opportunities and a lot of people that can help them be put in their right places, so they can provide a better future for themselves."

Peaches said the story had a personal resonance for her.

"To be honest I've been down that track," she said.

"I've done a lot of crime in my past, for my age, my young age, break and enters, doing shops over, hotties [stolen cars], all the bad stuff."

She said she stopped offending last year when she made a promise to her grandfather.

"Last year, my pop passed away and he wanted me to do something good with my future," she said.

"So I realised if I want to do something good with my future, that means putting myself first and not just hanging around with my mates that do wrong."

Gary Oliver, the CEO of the NSW and ACT Legal Service, said projects like these were trying to change the high detention rates among young Indigenous people.

"I think engaging people at this stage in their life is what's important," he said.

"I think engaging with them and making use they're aware of their rights as well and it gives people the thought that there are other paths for them.

"So it isn't always the path of following others, but the path of doing what you're passionate about.

"Hopefully this is one of the paths people can follow."