![]() ![]() And then Rusty turned up and I literally filmed him on his first day. If he’d had other opportunities he would have been a scholar. He can really see what the big picture is. He’s very insightful about his story but also about the other kids’ stories. And one of the first people I was very drawn to, and most people are because he’s very articulate, is Zac. Whenever you make a documentary you cast the film. Originally considering the story as a possible half-hour doco, she quickly realised that there was material here for much more, the film unfolding to tell the story of three boys: Zac, Rusty and Tyrson. Literally, within two weeks of this conversation I was up there with a camera and I started filming. As soon as I heard about him I thought “oh my god, this has just got everything that I love”. I was talking to someone about my diabetic son and how I was thinking about getting an assistance dog, and then we were talking about some of my work and this guy who knew Bernie put dogs and prisons together and said “Look you’ve got to meet this amazing guy”. It was at a party of a friend of mine who is a film maker. So how did Scott come across this remarkable story? Prior to this feature, the program was not widely known outside of Armidale, where it is based. Her current work, Backtrack Boys, looks at the Backtrack program run by Bernie Shakeshaft, where he takes the most marginalized kids (mostly boys) and trains them to be part of his dog-jumping team. I like to do stories about people who are misrepresented or misunderstood or are outsiders in some way: maybe because I personally identify, or because I find what’s happening in that space really interesting. And has never looked back.ĭespite many years working as a producer/shooter for such august shows as Dateline and Foreign Correspondent, it is as a freelancer that Scott has perhaps done her most interesting work, including Scarlett Road, following a sex-worker who specializes in clientele with a disability. Upon her return to Australia she took up this topic with her camera. This lead to her finding out that many Australian prisons had been privatized, and were being run by American corporations. Slowly moving into documentary making, Scott made an acclaimed series about the criminal justice system in the US. So I was like a kind of media fringe dweller. Then we moved into covering social movements. We did a lot of deconstructing the media, which everyone does now, but back then it was quite an edgy thing to be doing. ![]() After that I joined a group called Paper Tiger Television, which was a video arts group doing a weekly show on the public access channel. I did a graphic design course and then won a scholarship to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Despite a grueling schedule, she kindly squeezed in a chat with Glam about her incredible career and her two years filming the Backtrack program, which works with young offenders, or those at risk of offending.Īlthough a highly respected documentary director and producer, Scott’s early career trajectory was outside of the norm. These are all of Sam Neill's horror movies ranked from worst to best.Documentary film-maker Catherine Scott is currently travelling the country promoting her already critically acclaimed feature, Backtrack Boys. He joined Peaky Blinders co-star Adrien Brody in 2015 for the film Backtrack. Neill hasn't divorced himself from the horror genre altogether, despite no longer acting in as many. He's become a horror legend since cult followings for his classics are growing every day, in the age of boundless streaming services. Lovecraft inspired movie In the Mouth of Madness. Acclaimed horror director John Carpenter eventually picked him up for a few of his more well-recognized films, Memoirs of an Invisible Man and the H.P. ![]() The leading characters are very dissimilar and proved his range as both a brilliantly theatrical and trained actor in Hollywood and especially in horror. In 1981, Sam Neill starred in Andrzej Żuławski's psychosexual horror film Possession and Graham Baker's cult classic The Omen III. ![]() Related: Why Sam Neill & Laura Dern Weren't In The First 2 Jurassic World Movies It wasn't until Jurassic Park that he became a big name in Hollywood and continued to star in various hit films and television series, including Jurassic Park sequels. His time at the University of Canterbury exposed him to acting and after achieving starring roles in My Brilliant Career and The Omen III: The Final Conflict, Sam Neill truly started to garner recognition. Born in Northern Island, in 1947, Sam Neill moved to New Zealand in his youth and began his acting career at age 24 in the TV movie The City of No. ![]()
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