The Last Shift

My short noir thriller "The Last Shift" is screening at the Angry Film Festival in Melbourne. Starring Darren Sabadina, Anni Finsterer and Steve Rodgers, the film takes you on a tense ride through the streets of Sydney and explores the dark side of being a taxi driver. An antidote to my upbeat doco series, "Taxi School", I wanted to make a provocative thriller with a sinister twist.

Kulka - The Life and Times of Indigenous Activist Gordon Briscoe

"Kulka" is a 50 minute bio doc that celebrates the life and times of Dr Gordon Briscoe, a campaigner for basic human rights for Indigenous Australians, an activist, motivator, thinker, researcher, author, teacher and mentor. It is the inspirational story of an institutionalized Aborigine, interned in an ‘alien’ camp during the second World War with very little education, who struggled against the odds to achieve dignity and respect for himself and his people. His work as co-founder of the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern in the 1970’s led him to initiate the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program conducted by the late Professor Fred Hollows - a program which opened the eyes of the world to the poverty and disease underlying the health problems of Indigenous Australians. As a Land Rights activist and the first Indigenous Australian to stand for federal parliament, Gordon travelled throughout the Northern Territory talking to communities about their rights as traditional owners. The intensely personal story of Gordon Briscoe’s journey as a boy once labeled a ‘ward of the state’ to a man who reclaimed his traditional family and cultural identity, is a powerful one that resonates with the ongoing struggle for self-determination facing Indigenous Australians today.

Broadcast on NITV on Foxtel
Written and Directed by Claire Haywood
Produced by Kingston Anderson
Co-Produced by Gordon and Norma Briscoe

DVD available from Ronin Films
www.roninfilms.com.au