To view samples of our Digital Story projects visit our vimeo site.
I have worked on a wide variety of doco’s across the country – from Echuca in the South to Darwin in the North.
My work has culminated in over thirty completed documentaries that are screened on Television, in Museum Exhibitions, School Classrooms, Film Festivals and National Archives.
We have created work in collaboration with Zeb Schulz of Real Art Works, Luke Barrowcliffe of Goorie Vision and world reknowned musicians Linsey Pollak, The Barleyshakes and hip hop groups Combat Wombat and Local Knowledge.
The following are just a few brief samples of that work. Please be advised that there is indigenous content on this page that may be of deceased people which may upset some viewers.
Still frame from Bait Layers & Babbling Brooks
Bait Layers & Babbling Brooks:
A story following a day in the life of a Shearer’s Cook near Hay in NSW.
Shearers tell of cooks both good and bad that have fed their hungry bellies over the years. Cooks of past and present tell of tales behind rough and ready stoves cooking from 4am to 7pm each day of the shearing season…
Still from 'Everyone Had Goats' Tambo Qld
Tambo Stories:
Seven mini doco’s including the story of the only fatal Qantas crash in Australia in 1927 where the pilots and a passenger were killed on the Claypan at Tambo. Other stories include how Tambo played cricket on concrete pitches during the drought and how the local rugby league team were dubbed The Grandfathers because of the ages of their players.
Chris at Nebo Cemetery with camera and jib after the ceremony
Bringing Uncle Home:
Kitchener Brown was a great man. A great horseman among any other talents. His story does not start there. An indigenous man from Nebo near Mackay in Queensland, he was stolen from the creek at a young age. Away from family and his traditional culture, despite all this he made a name for himself and led a full life until he died in Kingaroy. His grave was marked only by a white post among the many well-kept marble and stone gravesites there.
Family members decided it was time to have his remains repatriated to his traditional home and in 2009 they made that a reality. Friends and relatives from across Australia travelled vast distances to celebrate the occasion and grieve in honour of Kitchener as he was officially laid to rest…
From All Four Corners:
Wagga Wagga has many stories to tell about the people who have chosen the region as home. Migrants have arrived over the years looking for new life, work and an open community.
Screen grab of editing From All Four Corners
These mini-doco’s follow the lives of people from all four corners of the globe as they learn to live in regional Australia. Archival photographs and film colour the stories of hardship and success in a new world of opportunity and challenge.
Some of the stories in this series include Hiroshima Survivor Mitsue Stockley, The Dunlop Factory and Vietnamese Refugee Peter Vu.
The Long Paddock:
This documentary covers the travelling stock route from Echuca to Willcannia known as The Long Paddock. Locals in each town along the way tell yarns of their experience along the route.
Among the stories is Bruce Baird, an 80 year old truck driver tells of being the delivery driver along the original dirt track.
