Making Our Fillum...

Well hey there. If you know me and / or read this blog semi-regularly, you'll know that I am currently in the midst of making a film about refugee stuff (with - of course - the assistance of some mighty talented other people without whom I would probably try and do the whole thing in claymation. and that would just take AGES).

Well, we're making our film! We've done most of the shooting during the trip to Baxter, and we've done interviews with the former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, and with Julian Burnside, and an ex-guard who worked at Maribyrnong and Baxter. It's coming together wonderfully, thanks to the talents of Mr Adam Arkapaw (cinematographer and cameraman extraordinaire) and David 'Big Man Hands' Schmidt, cameraman and editor, pictured above right).

I just wanted to post this little update because I don't want you to think that nothing is happening! In reality LOTS of stuff is happening and it's great. I'm very excited and can't wait for you all to see it :)

ALSO - little update... In case you haven't caught up with the goss, the Migration Amendment Bill was basically stomped on at this session of Parliament, having been fundamentally rejected by a number of members of Howard's own party. He may try to pull a swifty and reintroduce it into Parliament in August but hopefully as a nation we'll be ALL OVER IT and not let him try anything tricky.

If you haven't already signed the Getup petition (or implored everyone you know to sign it too), go to http://www.getup.org.au/campaign.asp?campaign_id=30 and sign that puppy. The initial goal was 35,000, but that was blitzed. Then it rose to 50,000, then to 75,000, and now they've pumped it up to 100,000! It would be AMAZING if we could pull that off, and at the time of writing it was at 84% (83,715 people!), so let's DO IT!

Cheers

:) Jess x

PS if you can think of a cool name for our film let me know. I may come up with some kind of prize... ;)