DOCUMENTARYKim has made fully funded documentaries for; film festivals, television, the government and the private sector. Below are a few examples. The Last Diggers Documentary (television half hour).The Last Diggers is about a group of people living on the edge of the outback. The Diggers take a stand when the council tries to outlaw their hobby of fossicking for relics from the heyday of Broken Hill, in an abandoned dumpsite.
'I met some of the characters involved while I was researching another project. It struck me that their struggles and their love of the past was a terrific way to tell a story about outback Australia. ''The Last Diggers' has been a ratings success on SBS and was re-titled as “Trash or Treasure: The collectors of Broken Hill”. It has since be re-screened a number of times and was a hit at festivals. [ Produced by Lisa Duff and Dan Whitely] The glory days of it's Mining town heritage is still very much alive for the people of Out back Australia in Broken Hill. Anyone with a pick or a shovel can sneak across the green ban strip to the old dump to dig it up. But with the council moving to stop unlawful fossicking many of the true 'Hiller' locals are faced with becoming outlaws. Set against the backdrop of the amazing Australian Outback and the Mundi Mundi Plains, 'The Last Diggers' is a humorous and heat felt portrait story of how a group of 'Diggers' banded together to fight their right to dig a hole in the ground. Screened on SBS Television as 'Trash or Treasure the bottle fossickers of Broken Hill.' Indigenous Communities Volunteers'This was an incredible experience, visiting remote indigenous communities from the centre of the desert to the Torres Strait Islands and finding positive and uplifting stories about the people, their lives and volunteers working on specific projects. We took into account the profound connection the communities had with their land. We traveled via light planes, boats, up creek beds, by 4wd and hiked to shoot in places which in some cases no one had ever taken a camera before.'
1. Making a difference2. Getting Down to BusinessKim encourages you to visit the ICV website and volunteer. www.icv.com.au
Yowie Men Festival documentary‘YOWIE MEN’ is a bizarre collection of interviews and re-enactments about the phenomenon of YOWIES. Yowie Men - Coronial Inquest Court Room Compile Footage 'The producer and I were trying to track down rumored Australian footage of a seven foot ape-man filmed at night in a national forest. We soon realized our interview footage with men who believe they have seen a YOWIE was the real story. We later received a copy of the footage in the mail. It is incredible. It creates more questions than answers.' |
