The angels: kickin’ down the door (2022)
100 min, Feature Documentary | Universal Pictures, Beyond Entertainment, Living Not Beige Films
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Synopsis: It’s not easy being in a rock ‘n’ roll band. The Angels came hurtling out of Adelaide with the searing guitars of the Brewster brothers and Doc Neeson, a frontman who was beyond intense. Their songs are etched in the DNA of this city: Take a Long Line, Am I Ever Goin’ to See Your Face Again. They were on the path to international success… until they just missed out. Yet they revolutionised Aussie music with gritty guitar rock and ferociously theatrical live shows. Adelaide’s Madeleine Parry has made an intimate documentary exploring the tensions that tore relationships apart while producing unforgettable rock’n’roll.
Cinema Release: December 2022 (Australia)
Currently streaming: Binge, Foxtel, Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play
Adelaide Film Festival 2022 Opening Night Film Select (Australian Premiere)
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Selected works:
Songs inside (2024)
93 min, Feature Documentary
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Synopsis: A group of incarcerated women sign up to learn an instrument and write their own songs, as part of a unique music program in an Australian prison. The process opens deep scars around trauma and addiction, but can they prove that music has the universal power to heal, even in the complex world of prison?
Official Selection: Sydney Film Festival 2025
Winner Audience Documentary: Adelaide Film Festival 2024
EMBRACE KIDS (2022)
79 min, Feature Documentary
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Synopsis: Body-image advocate Taryn Brumfitt is a best-selling author and speaker, and the film director behind break-out documentary EMBRACE (2016). This time she’s talking to school-aged kids and famous friends about body image, bullying, gender identity, advocacy, representation and more. Featuring Taryn’s network of well-known celebrity friends including Celeste Barber, Jameela Jamil, Electric Fields, along with Chico the family dog, EMBRACE: KIDS brings together a vibrant collection of stories and voices to entertain and inspire kids and parents alike, showing us that the first step in changing the world, is changing your own mind.
Cinema Release: September 1, 2022
BARBECUE (2017)
82 min, Feature Documentary
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Synopsis: Barbecue is about more than grilling a piece of meat. It is a deeply entrenched ritual, an act performed religiously around the world, a ceremony refined over millennia. Every culture has some form of barbecue. But what is it about cooking meat over fire a thing that brings communities and families together? Barbecue is a tool for celebration. It is the pride of nations. It is something that transcends cultural differences.
Barbecue looks not only to the past, but also the future. From Shisanyama in Africa, to Engangsgrill in Sweden, people light fires, gather, and talk. This isn’t just a film about food – it’s about why life is worth living. From the Syrian border to an outback town in Australia, barbecue is all around us. We celebrate life through it. We find unity in it. We discover answers through it.
Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Documentary
Official Selection: SXSW 2017 (World Premiere)
Official Selection: Sydney Film Festival 2017 (Australian Premiere)