Our trip to Kalgoorlie was expected to be the last piece of filming that we did on the documentary. We flew up there on Thursday courtesy of one of our sponsors, Barrick and were very kindly looked after by the All Seasons Grand Plaza Hotel; whose manager incidentally used to be involved with Everton Football [...]
Our Other Documentary
Check out the trailer to our other documentary “Standing at the Touchlines” where Ashley traveled around Africa recording the continent’s reaction to hosting its first Football World Cup in South Africa. It was a very different documentary to film. The weather ranged from stinking-hot-humid to freezing-your-nuts off (oh hang on Germany was the same too!). [...]
Side by Side
The final interviews have now been filmed. I flew to the Gold Coast – thanks to Xstrata Nickel – and met Kyah and Lydia while they were back in camp preparing for the Olympic qualifiers, which start next month. Not surprisingly the girls were still thinking of what might have been in Germany, and how [...]
The Black Lords of Summer
By Ashley Mallett. This book is written to commemorate the 1868 Aboriginal Cricket Tour of England. It is set in a time long ago when the attitudes were extremely different to today, and life was very different. However once again we witness how the good nature of the Aboriginal people was abused for other people’s [...]
Fine Tuning
We have gone through all the clips that we filmed from the very start of our journey with Kyah and Lydia and picked out the footage that we want to use, some of which will never make the final cut. We have also started editing the interviews that we have conducted over the period that [...]
