Karin Altmann
Set in the industrial town of Whyalla, this is an intimate portrait of John Croall, a Glaswegian immigrant to Australia, and the father of long-time Adelaide Fringe director, Heather Croall. John Croall delivered three generations of babies and planted thousands of trees in the town. He was also a great letter writer, and this very personal documentary uses these letters as its point of departure. Heather Croall films with her father as a way of coping with his approaching death and reflecting on the close, and often very funny, relationship between a father and a daughter.
Dr Darryl Jones is obsessed with Alphamale, a wily Brushturkey from the Tropics. Ex-motor mechanic Ray 'Whimpey' Reichelt loves Charlie, a shy desert dwelling Malleefowl. An extraordinary tale of two vastly different men and their love for two of Australia's unusual mound building birds.
The ebb and flow of erotic desire makes for a summertime splash in this vibrant realisation by Ann Turner. Inspired by a Jeffrey Smart painting, Turner's work starts out baking in the sun before it takes a cool dip beyond the sexual shoreline.
This award-winning film is a tightly constructed history documentary, a model of its kind, intelligently and sensitively narrated by the filmmaker, Karin Altmann. It incorporates a wealth of archival material – much of it never seen publicly before - and reveals historical and political connections never previously made.
