PinnedMarifel: The Woman Who Left Her Children Behind to Look After MineWomen who sacrifice a lifetime with their families to find work overseas deserve respect, but they don’t often get it.Jun 16, 2015A response icon17Jun 16, 2015A response icon17
PinnedPublished inHuman Parts‘The Adopted’: I visited a WW2 soldier’s home in Michigan to see what he sacrificedAt his home in Lansing, his family shared the remarkable bond they have forged with the Dutch who adopted his grave.Feb 7A response icon44Feb 7A response icon44
PinnedPublished inHuman Parts‘The Adopted’: how the Dutch rallied to honour their liberators after WWIIThousands of American soldiers died liberating the Netherlands from Nazi Germany. After the war, the Dutch started adopting their graves…Sep 13, 2024A response icon23Sep 13, 2024A response icon23
PinnedPublished inHuman PartsWhatever Happens, Grief Will Have Her WayShaken by her sudden death I took a camera into mum’s house to tell her story, my way. But grief had other plans.Mar 21, 2024A response icon15Mar 21, 2024A response icon15
PinnedPublished inHuman PartsMy Accidental Britpop MumAfter mum’s sudden death I fell into a hermetically sealed ’90s music bubble. And now it’s time to leave.Nov 10, 2022A response icon11Nov 10, 2022A response icon11
Published inHuman Parts‘The Adopted’: It’s up to us to keep the World War II generation aliveTo connect schoolchildren to my documentary film I told them a love story about two British army officers with a twist in the tale.Sep 11A response icon12Sep 11A response icon12
Published inHuman Parts‘The Adopted’: From Lansing to Margraten, the past is always presentOur documentary follows the family of an American WW2 soldier as they visit the Dutch adopters of his grave.Jun 30Jun 30
AfterI saw the house before I heard the birds, standing, head bowed in a Rutland field, hopelessly unaware, but knowing just enough: she…Jan 22Jan 22
Published inHuman Parts‘After’: a 9-minute documentary that tried to kill meWe don’t talk about grief properly. And it’s only when I turned the camera on that I started to understand why.Oct 18, 2024A response icon1Oct 18, 2024A response icon1
Vale! Jack the BackDr.John O’Brien, or dad, was the world’s first full-time spinal surgeon. He left Sydney on the P&O Himalaya in 1963 and never returned…May 13, 2024A response icon2May 13, 2024A response icon2
