Big Dreamers receives investment from AFC

Big Dreamers receives post-production investment from Australian Film Commission

BarkingCat Productions are very pleased to announce they have been selected to receive post production investment from the Australian Film Commission for their comedic feature documentary Big Dreamers – a film focussing on one man’s quixotic struggle to build The Biggest Gumboot in the World.

Big Dreamers is a hilarious comedic documentary following life-long Rotary Club member, Ron Hunt as he struggles to erect the World’s Biggest Gumboot in the tiny township of Tully, Far North Queensland, Australia, in honour of Tully’s reputation as the wettest town in Australia. Ron is a very dry character in a rather wet town, and soon finds himself stuck between the two commissioned artists as they compete against other to build the boot. Even though Ron sometimes wonders whether the townsfolk will accept his totemic 8 metre-high offering, the maze of financial hurdles, feisty small town politics and bureaucratic engineering difficulties can not halt Ron’s quixotic determination, but perhaps the relentless rain will. Big Dreamers holds an audience appeal from six to sixty and nine to ninety.

After three years of hard slog getting the film made, director Camille Hardman is very pleased with the AFC’s investment, and is looking forward to refining the rough cut in preparation for the global festival circuit. “The competition in this round was extremely high, and the feedback from the AFC was very encouraging, so this is a real boost.” Says Camille, who shunted her "real job" in the film industry to follow her dream of making this film as an indie.

“There are so many well made documentaries out there telling us how bad things are, so from the beginning I set out to make a film that affirms life, makes us feel good about who we are, no matter what part of the world we might live in.”

Big Dreamers
Produced By John Fink & Camille Hardman
Directed By Camille Hardman
Written By John Fink
Edited By Peter Barton
Music & Underscore By Neill Duncan
Consultative Editor - Andrew Aristedes
Critical Consultant - Bob Connolly, Karin Altmann

If you want to find out more about the film Big Dreamers, or BarkingCat Productions, please reply to this email, or call John Fink at BarkingCat Productions on (02) 9261 4055 – or 0414 610 225.