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Acts of Heroism
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Produced: 2022
Length: 15.34 minutes
Funded by: Telematics Trust
In collaboration with: Federation University
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Aboriginal Heroes of Flood Fire and Food Digital Map.The Story
This short documentary film explores the history of emergency rescues and assistance in Victoria by Aboriginal people of non-Aboriginal people.
In the 19th and early 20th century Aboriginal Victorians saved lives. They knew how to manage fire and flood in the bush and where to find food in times of scarcity. Despite the devastating impacts of European invasion, Aboriginal people consistently offered help and rescue to colonists.
‘Acts of Heroism’ looks at instances where Aboriginal people took action in emergency situations in Victoria and reflects on the legacy of these shared histories. It includes Indigenous and academic perspectives, with speakers Yaraan Couzens-Bundle, Jidah Clark, Uncle David Wandin, Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Professor Richard Broome and Associate Professor Fred Cahir. Directed by Jary Nemo, produced and written by Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo, the film features the original music of composer Deb Lowah Clark.
Warning
Viewers are advised that the film may contain images and names of people who have died.
The film mentions acts of violence and the killing times which may be distressing.
Viewers are also advised they will hear and see words written more than a hundred years ago.
In quoting the words as they were first written the film makers intend no disrespect to peoples past or present.
Background
This short film is a companion to a web-based education portal ‘Aboriginal Heroes of Fire, Food and Flood’ which spatially maps locations and documented instances of Aboriginal heroism to do with fire, flood and food in Victoria and Southeastern Australia from the 1800s to the 1930s.
The project was funded by the Telematics Trust and is a collaboration between Federation University historians, the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation at Federation University, and Wind & Sky Productions. The film was produced in Ballarat, in regional Victoria, on Wadawurrung Country.
More information at https://www.aboriginalheroesmatter.org.au/
Viewing the film
Not yet released to the public. Coming soon.Credits
- Featuring (in order of appearance):
- Yaraan Couzens-Bundle, Jidah Clark, Fred Cahir, Richard Broome, David Wandin and Michael-Shawn Fletcher
- And the voices of:
- Bryn Cahir, Hannah Cahir, Heather Horrocks, Kylee Smith, Tobias Horrocks, William Horrocks, Thomas Brooker
- Directed by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written and produced by:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Executive producer:
- Fred Cahir
- Original music:
- Deb Lowah Clark
- Soundscape:
- ‘Place-we-be’. Composed, recorded and performed by Deb Lowah Clark. Featuring Deb Lowah Clark, Sarah Jane Hall, Bonnie Chew and Tony Lovett. Production support Dave Clark.
- Stock content:
- Footage courtesy of iStock by Getty Images. ‘Old Prophecy’ by Felipe Adorno Vassao. Courtesy Beat Suite.
- Equipment support:
- Assisted by a City of Ballarat Creative Inspiration Grant through Creative Ballarat and Regional Arts Victoria.
- With thanks to:
- Maxine Briggs, Craig Briody, Deb Lowah Clark, Dave Clark, Kirsten Clark, Pete Dahlhaus, Sam Henson, Kathy Horvat, Clare Gervasoni, Geoffrey Lord, Malcolm Sanders, Helen Thompson, Rob Milne, Dan Tout, Anthony Romano, Charley Woolmore, City of Ballarat, Latrobe University, Melbourne University Indigenous Knowledge Institute, Federation University Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Regional Arts Victoria, Federation University SMB Library, Royal Historical Society Victoria, State Library Victoria and Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation.
- License:
- This film has been released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
- Produced in collaboration with:
- Federation University Australia
- Supported by:
- the Telematics Trust
- Companion website:
- Aboriginal Heroes Matter
- Acknowledgements:
- Film production and development took place on the lands of the Bunurong, Dja Dja Wurrung, Djab Wurrung, Jardwardjali, Taungurung, Wadawurrung, and Wurundjeri peoples. We acknowledge these Traditional Owners and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future.
- Copyright with:
- Wind & Sky Productions ©2022 unless otherwise acknowledged.
Harbour Lights
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Commissioned by: Victorian Government
Produced: 2020
Length: 17:51 minutes
About The Film
In WW1 Melbourne a pioneering network of women at the Mission to Seafarers called the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild supported sailors who risked their lives at sea.
The documentary ‘Harbour Lights’ tells the remarkable story of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild and the lives of seafarers in early 20th century Melbourne. It focusses on Melbourne’s iconic Mission to Seafarers building, its connection to the Great War and to a unique community of ships crew and volunteers.
This Wind & Sky Production was produced in collaboration with the Mission to Seafarers Victoria. It was directed by Jary Nemo and written and produced by Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo with executive producers Sue Dight and Gordon MacMillan.
Narrated by Sharon Turley, the film features Jill Garner, Kate Darian-Smith, Chris McConville, Janet Miller and Gordon MacMillan. Music was specifically composed by the incredible Richard Chew. Featuring Melbourne historians, commentators, archivists and architects and rare footage and images of sailing and social life in and around the ports of Melbourne, this film will inform and connect audiences young and old.
Created with the support of the Victorian Government.
Story Background
At the outbreak of World War One shipping was central to the Victorian way of life.
Seafarers from every corner of the world visited Melbourne on merchant ships. They risked their lives bringing goods to what was then the largest port in Australia. Life could be equally difficult in port where exploitation of sailors was rife.
To help protect them from harm the Mission to Seafarers set up a network of support in Australia and around the world. The Mission was first established as a floating chapel in Hobson’s Bay in 1857, but by the early 20th century had established shore-based missions in Williamstown, Port Melbourne, and on the Yarra River in Melbourne.
The Melbourne Mission to Seafarers, which still stands today, was constructed on the Yarra River waterfront in 1917 during the First World War at a time when ships carrying cargo and people were subjected to heightened dangers at sea.
What is little-known about the story is the crucial work of a group of women called the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild who raised significant funds for the Mission’s construction and who volunteered their time to support the global welfare of seafarers from ship to shore.
The inspiration for the film project was the rediscovery in 2007 of a near-forgotten set of dusty old boxes stored under the Mission’s theatre. The boxes were filled with documents and photographs related to the activities of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild from its foundation in 1906 to its demise in the 1960s.
In recent years a dedicated team of volunteers and staff at the Mission has been gradually digitising, identifying and cataloguing the Guild records. Through their research they discovered that the construction of the current Mission building at 717 Flinders Street, particularly the building of the Memorial Chapel, was paid for in large part by the fundraising efforts of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild during WW1.
The archives also revealed that the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild model was a homegrown invention, pioneered in Melbourne in 1906 and exported to Missions around the world.
Though the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild disbanded in the 1960s, their legacy is present in the bones of the building they helped construct during the terrible years of the First World War. Their traces can be found in the outdoor garden, designed and planted by members of the Guild, and in the stained glass, decorative work and plaques in the building’s Memorial Chapel, dedicated to the memory of merchant mariners who lost their lives in the Great War.
Today the Mission continues to operate from the same building and has an active staff and volunteer community working in support of the world’s seafarers who visit the port of Melbourne.
In the News
Peter Krausz, Interview with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo Harbour Lights, Movie Metropolis, WYN 88.9FM, 24 July 2021.
Documentary Drive, ‘MDFF 2021: Shorts to Watch’, 06 July 2021.
Annie McLoughlin, ‘Harbour Lights & The Last Typewriter Shop In Melbourne’, Interview with Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo, Showreel, 3CR Community Radio, 24 June 2021.
Screenings and Events
Winner, Best Documentary Film, Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 2021, 27 November – 4 December 2021.
Official Selection, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2021, 7-31 July 2021.
Official Selection, Setting Sun Film Festival 2021, 18-26 June 2021.
Official Selection, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2021, 18-19 May 2021.
Geelong Wooden Boat Festival: Sunday 8 March 2020, West Lounge Theatre, Geelong Foreshore. Program
Film Launch: Wednesday 26th February 2020, Melbourne Mission to Seafarers.
Viewing the Film
The film is free to show, watch and share online at internet quality at Harbour Lights on YouTube.
To arrange for a high quality screening copy for community screenings and events contact Wind & Sky Productions or Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Media Contact
For interviews and further information, contact Wind & Sky Productions or Mission to Seafarers Victoria.
Credits
- Narrator
- Sharon Turley
- Featuring (in order of appearance)
- Dr Chris McConville, Gordon MacMillan, Janet Miller, Professor Kate Darian-Smith and Jill Garner
- With
- Raul S Gantalao Jr, Escoto Lemuel, Ben Schroeder, Cinda Manins
- And
- Ian Fletcher, Yuan Jia, Uma Kothari, Gordon Lansley, William Reed and Cheka Samaranayake
- Directed by
- Jary Nemo
- Written and Produced by
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Music by
- Richard Chew
- Executive Producers
- Sue Dight and Gordon MacMillan
- Research advisors
- Geraldine Brault, Maria Culka, Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Ros Fletcher, Professor Uma Kothari, Dr Barbara Lemon, Catherine McLay, Dr Chris McConville, Janet Miller, Rick Mitchell, Duncan ‘John’ Perryman, Dr Annette Sheill and Peter Taylor
- Archival photographs, music and footage courtesy of
- Australian Red Cross Society, Central Highlands Libraries, Internet Archive, National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia, Mackarness Family Personal Archives, Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Public Record Office Victoria, State Library of Victoria and US National Archives
- Music
- Harbour Lights. Music by Richard Chew. Westering. Music by Richard Chew. Twilight (Crépuscule) by Jules Massenet. Performed by Amelita Galli-Curci. I Love You So, Waltz from The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár. Performed by Elise Stephenson and Harry Macdonough with Orchestra. Harbour Lights 2. Music by Richard Chew. If I Could Fly by Walking Hearts featuring Jennifer Holm. Courtesy of Epidemic Sound.
- With thanks to
- Peter Barrow, Sarah Bartak, Lin Bender AM, Patty Braumueller, Csilla Csongvay, Emer Diviney, Moira Drew, Ian Fletcher, Ajith Jayasuriya, Ben Jones, Patience Jones, Cinda Manins, Madeleine Martiniello, Georgia Melville, Elisabeth Moglia, Tara Oldfield, Lyn Pasquier, Nigel Porteous, Rev’d Onofre (Inni) Punay, Dr Rosalie Triolo, Ben Schroeder, David Simpson, Cheka Samaranayake, Daria Wray, the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and KPMG.
- A special thanks to
- The women of the Ladies Harbour Lights Guild 1906 to 1961
- Produced in collaboration with
- The Mission to Seafarers Victoria
- Created with the support of
- The Victorian Government
- Licensing
- This film has been released under a
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license - Acknowledgement of country
- Project production and development took place on the lands of the Kulin nation. We acknowledge Traditional Owners and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
- Production company
- A Wind & Sky Production
- Copyright with
- © Wind & Sky Productions MMXIX
The Missing
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Commissioned by: Victorian Government
Produced: 2019
Length: 11:21 minutes
When WW1 brought Australians face to face with mass death a Red Cross Information Bureau and post-war graves workers laboured to help families grieve for the missing.
The unprecedented death toll of the First World War generated a burden of grief. Particularly disturbing was the vast number of dead who were “missing” – their bodies never found. This short documentary and online exhibition explores two unsung humanitarian responses to the crisis of the missing of World War 1 – the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau and the post-war work of the Australian Graves Detachment and Graves Services. It tells of a remarkable group of men and women, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, who laboured to provide comfort and connection to grieving families in distant Australia.
Documentary Film
The short documentary features Professor Melanie Oppenheimer of Flinders University and Dr Bart Ziino of Deakin University, with original compositions by Dr Richard Chew of Federation University. Not to be missed are rarely seen archival images from the Australian Red Cross Heritage Collection and from Anzac House Victorian RSL headquarters.
Skillfully crafted and edited by director Jary Nemo, the eleven minute film is a moving and visually rich reflection on war, grief, commitment and loss, a fitting vehicle to commemorate the centenary of the Great War’s aftermath.
This Wind & Sky Production was directed by Jary Nemo and written and produced by Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks, with executive producer Associate Professor Fred Cahir of Federation University.
Online Exhibition
A companion online exhibition was launched on the Victorian Collections portal in April 2021.
The ‘Missing’ exhibition provides some of the context of the crisis of the missing, the role of the Red Cross and the Graves Workers and the story of the creation of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne to provide a place for people to mourn.
Curated by Lucinda Horrocks of Wind & Sky Productions the exhibition features contributions by historians Fred Cahir, Carole Woods and Sara Weuffen and essays by volunteers, archivists and family members who share personal journeys of people during the First World War and in its aftermath.
The exhibition features the stories of: Vera Deakin, determined head of the overseas Wounded and Missing Inquiry Bureau; Winifred Brotherton, dedicated volunteer bureau clerk who travelled from Castlemaine to London to be of use; Stanley Addison, Red Cross ‘searcher’ who looked in hospitals and battlegrounds for missing and wounded soldiers; Emma Tout, grieving mother at home of a son whose body was never found; Frank Cahir, the seasoned Gallipoli veteran who volunteered for extra duty to photograph war graves; and Will McBeath, young army recruit who was too late to fight and instead became a war graves worker, digging up graves and reburying people he knew.
Visit https://victoriancollections.net.au/stories/the-missing to view the free exhibition.
Screenings and Events
Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 2021, Erie, Pennysylvania, United States, 29 November – 4 December 2021.
Online Exhibition Launch 19 April 2021, Victorian Collections.
Ogeechee International History Film Festival 2021, February 26-March 5 2021.
Setting Sun Film Festival 2020 (postponed due to COVID), 4-13 February 2021.
Veterans Film Festival 2020, 30 November – December 31 2020.
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2020 30 June 2020- 15 July 2020.
Film Launch: Friday 29th November 2019, Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance.
Awards and Nominations
Honourable Mention, Social Concern Category, GSF Awards-Global Short Film Awards, 2022.
Silver Award, Spotlight Documentary Film Awards 2021.
Nominee, Documentary Award, Directors Circle Festival of Shorts 2021.
Shortlisted, 2021 Victorian Premier’s History Award, and Commendation, Digital Storytelling Award, 2021 Victorian Community History Awards.
Finalist, Best Documentary – History, 2020 ATOM Awards
Viewing the Film
The film is free to show, watch and share online at internet quality at The Missing on YouTube.
To arrange for a high quality screening copy for community screenings and events contact Wind & Sky Productions.
Viewing the Exhibition
The exhibition is free to watch, show and share online on the portal Victorian Collections.
In the News
‘Frank Cahir saw more of the horror of war than most, and knew its cost‘, Caleb Cluff, The Courier, 27 September 2021.
Interview with Lucinda Horrocks, Heather Horrocks and Fred Cahir, Saturday Breakfast with Matt Tribe, ABC Radio Victoria, 24 April 2021.
‘ANZAC Exhibition’, Sam Mills, WIN News Ballarat, 23 April 2021.
The Missing: the inspiring Australians who went looking for the war dead, Peter Litras, Federation University News, 19 April 2021.
‘What did you do after the war?’ The Missing is short but packs a punch, David Stephens, Honest History, 14 January 2020.
The untold story of the ‘searchers’ who tracked down missing World War I soldiers, Elise Kinsella, ABC News Online, 30 Nov 2019.
PM daughters’ hunt for wartime missing, Yaz Dedovic, Flinders University News, 29 November 2019.
After the war: Remembering those who chose to stay behind, Peter Litras, Federation University News, 13 November 2019.
About the ‘Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances’ Project
The ‘Ordinary People in Extraordinary Circumstances: The Missing’ film and digital gallery project was supported by the Victorian Government and was a project partnership of Federation University, Wind & Sky Productions, Australian Red Cross and RSL Ballarat.
Media contact
For interviews and further information, contact Wind & Sky Productions.
Credits
- Acknowledgements:
- Project production and development took place on the lands of the Wathaurung, Boon Wurrung Wurundjeri and Kaurna peoples. We would like to acknowledge these Traditional Owners and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future.
- Federation University Research Project Chief Investigator:
- Fred Cahir
- Creative Producers:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Produced in collaboration with:
- Federation University Australia, Australian Red Cross Society and RSL Ballarat
- Created with the support of:
- the Victorian Government
- Research Advisors:
- Fred Cahir, Moira Drew, Katrina Nicolson, Linda North, Melanie Oppenheimer, Sara Weuffen, Carole Woods and Bart Ziino
- With Thanks to:
- Gillian Anderson, John Cahir, Sandy Cahir, Julie Cotter, Joanna Day, Alan Douglass, David Fitzroy, Leigh Gilburt, Sam Henson, Andrew Hope, Heather Horrocks, Maurie Keating, John MacDonald, Georgia Melville, Kristine Morgan, Brendan Nelson, Paula Nicholson, Fred Pratt, Lynne Redman, Matt Smith, Alex Tascas, Kristen Thornton, Sharon Turley, Creative Victoria, Deakin University, Flinders University, the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance and Royal Historical Society Victoria.
- Featuring:
- Bart Ziino and Melanie Oppenheimer
- Film Directed by:
- Jary Nemo
- Film Written and Produced by:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Executive Producer on behalf of Federation University:
- Fred Cahir
- Music by:
- Richard Chew
- Research Advisors:
- Fred Cahir, Moira Drew, Katrina Nicolson, Linda North, Melanie Oppenheimer, Sara Weuffen, Carole Woods and Bart Ziino
- Archival photographs and footage courtesy of:
- Anzac House RSL Victoria, Australian Red Cross Society, Australian War Memorial, Central Highlands Libraries, Deakin University Library, Family of Stanley Addison, Museums Victoria, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of South Australia, State Library of Victoria, University of Melbourne Archives and US National Archives
- Music:
- Sun Rim: Music by Richard Chew and Ian Dixon. The Windhover: Music by Richard Chew. Solo Violin; Stephen Morris. A View of the Sky: Composer Richard Chew. Produced by Richard Chew and Tom Robinson.
- With Thanks to:
- Gillian Anderson, John Cahir, Sandy Cahir, Julie Cotter, Joanna Day, Alan Douglass, David Fitzroy, Leigh Gilburt, Sam Henson, Andrew Hope, Heather Horrocks, Maurie Keating, John MacDonald, Georgia Melville, Kristine Morgan, Brendan Nelson, Paula Nicholson, Fred Pratt, Lynne Redman, Matt Smith, Alex Tascas, Kristen Thornton, Sharon Turley, Creative Victoria, Deakin University, Flinders University, the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance and Royal Historical Society Victoria.
- Produced in collaboration with:
- Federation University Australia, Australian Red Cross Society and RSL Ballarat
- Created with the support of:
- the Victorian Government
- Licensing:
- Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International.
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Copyright with:
- Wind & Sky Productions ©2019.
- Curator:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Commissioning Editor on behalf of Federation University:
- Fred Cahir
- Victorian Collections Project Officers:
- Ash Robertson, Georgia Melville and Lynda Bernard
- Essay Authors:
- Fred Cahir, Jo Caminiti, Lucinda Horrocks, Linda North, Kate Spinks, Sara Weuffen, and Carole Woods.
- Digital Essay Photographs and Items Courtesy of:
- Anzac House RSL Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Australian Red Cross Society, Australian War Memorial, Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, Central Highlands Libraries, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Deakin University Library, Imperial War Museum, Tracey Hind (Flickr), Larry Koester (Flickr), Melbourne University Archives, Museums Victoria, National Archives of Australia, National Library of Australia, Private collection of the Cahir family, Private collection of the Harrison and McBeath families, Private Collection of the Family of Stanley Addison, Private Collection of the White Family, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of South Australia, Shrine of Remembrance, State Library of Victoria, University of Melbourne Archives, National Library of Australia, Wernervc (Wikimedia Commons)
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Digital Gallery Credits
Data Democracy
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Commissioned by: CeRDI
Produced: 2018
Length: 13:11 minutes
Data Democracy
We are in an era where communities can interact with data in ways that were impossible to imagine a few short decades ago. While there are undoubted public benefits from accumulating, federating and aggregating data, both government and private institutional data use has in recent times been highly controversial, raising important questions about access, rights and community interest in the new digital and geospatial age.
Commissioned by the Centre for eResearch and Digital Information (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia, this short documentary aims to inform and inspire discussion on the issues of fairness, access, sharing and communicating data in the technological era.
It features Paul Box (CSIRO), Associate Professor Peter Dahlhaus (CeRDI), George Fong (ex-Internet Australia), Professor Richard Sinnott (University of Melbourne) and Dr Gillian Sparkes (Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability).
Screenings
Official Selection Silicon Valley Film Festival 2020, 11-13 December 2020.
Launch screening, panel discussion and networking drinks: Monday 8 April 2019, 5:30pm-7:15pm, Room 106, The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf VIC 3006.
Credits
- Featuring :
- George Fong, Professor Richard Sinnott, Dr Gillian Sparkes, Paul Box and Associate Professor Peter Dahlhaus
- With:
- Matthew Currell and Kirsten McKenna
- Directed by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written and Produced by:
- Lucinda Horrocks and Jary Nemo
- Executive Producer:
- Associate Professor Helen Thompson
- ‘CSIRONET’ (1985) Film Footage Courtesy of:
- CSIRO
- Stock Footage and Photography Courtesy of:
- CSIRO Publishing, Pexels, Pixabay, PxHere, NASA Images, Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability
- Music:
- Spherical Piano by Magnetize Music (via Premium Beat)
- With thanks to:
- Jessica Anderson, Craig Briody, Jennifer Corbett, Birgita Hansen, Jenny Jelbart, Robert Milne, Angela Murphy, Erin Seymour, Emily Ross, CSIRO Science Image, the Office of the Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, and the Ballarat Technology Park.
- Licensing:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
- Acknowledgement of country:
- Film production took place on the land of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their traditional ownership of country and pay respects to Elders past, present and future.
- Produced by:
- Wind & Sky Productions www.windsky.com.au
- Commissioned by:
- Commissioned by the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI), Federation University Australia www.cerdi.edu.au
- Copyright with:
- © CeRDI 2018
In Memory of Bull Allen
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Client: Ballarat RSL
Produced: 2013
Length: 9.16 minutes
Links
The Making of ‘In Memory of Bull Allen.
‘Bull’ Allen Film Media Release‘Australia’s War’ article on Allen by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs.
Entry on Bull Allen in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
ABC News article on Bull Allen featuring interview with Lucinda Horrocks.
Allen & Unwin’s “Hell’s Battlefield” book by author Phillip Bradley.
About
This short film tells the little-known story of Leslie ‘Bull’ Allen, brought up in hardship in Ballarat in regional Victoria, to become a courageous, complex war hero.
Corporal Leslie ‘Bull’ Allen was a stretcher bearer in the Australian Army in World War II who showed extraordinary bravery in recovering wounded men during battle. Our micro-documentary tells the story behind the famous photograph of Allen carrying a wounded soldier over his back during the battle of Mt Tambu, New Guinea, in 1943. Allen was never officially recognised in Australia for his actions on that day. We were commissioned by the RSL to tell Allen’s story to raise awareness of this complex, almost-forgotten Ballarat war hero.
For more information about Bull’s actions and how we made the film, read Lucinda’s blog post The Making of ‘In Memory of Bull Allen.
Please Share
The film is free to share, watch, copy, distribute and embed for non-commercial purposes under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC conditions. If you would like to embed the film in your web site, visit the YouTube version of the film and follow the embed instructions under the ‘share’ tab.
If you do embed or link to our film, please drop us an email to let us know. We love to hear about how our films are used!
Credits
- Written and produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Music:
- ‘Serenade’ composed by Franz Schubert, arranged by Franz Liszt, performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Recorded 7 February 1942. ‘Leslie Allen Theme’ composed by Lucinda Horrocks. © Lucinda Horrocks 2013
- Executive Producers:
- Alex Tascas and Maurice Keating
- Featuring:
- Bill Allen, Leslie Allen, Phillip Bradley, David Cranage, Eleanor Johnson
- Additional original music by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- With thanks to:
- The Allen Family, Gary Browning, Graeme Cummins, Doug Sarah, Dianne Atkins, Tom Atkins, Rhonda Keating, Pauline Cummins, Alan Douglass, Narelle Caldow, Kristine Morgan, Keith Sharpley, Bianca Stammers, the Internet Archive and the Australian War Memorial.
- Financed by:
- Ballarat Sub-Branch RSL, Bill Allen, Doug Sarah, Wind & Sky Productions.
- Distribution License:
- Free to distribute online for non-commercial purposes under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND conditions, all other use requires permission.
- Copyright with: © Ballarat RSL and Wind & Sky Productions Pty Ltd Pty Ltd 2013.