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Pacific Mother makes a big splash at Australian Premiere

04 Sep 2023 | Demand.Film

Fresh from winning Best Feature at the Doc Edge Film Festival, the documentary Pacific Mother had its Australian premiere in Sydney at the Ritz Cinema, Randwick last week to a packed audience. In attendance was the films director Katherine McRae and Birth Time co-director Zoe Naylor who hosted an exclusive Q&A.  Pacific Mother is based around Sachiko Fukumoto, a Japanese champion free diver and actress who is married to fellow-free diving champ William Trubridge. It’s an extension to the ultra-short doco Water Baby, which showed Fukumoto’s giving birth at home in a tub in New Zealand – Trub...
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Pacific Mother: A stunning-looking documentary that also has a lot to say

04 Sep 2023 | Graeme Tuckett, Stuff

Sachiko Fukumoto is a diver, actor and – now – film-maker from Japan. Her partner is New Zealander William Trubridge, the world champion free-diver who featured extensively in The Deepest Breath, wh...
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Pacific Mother delivers a feast for the eyes along with food for thought

23 Aug 2023 | Annette Basile, Film Ink

    With its exquisite underwater images, this documentary delivers [boom tish] a feast for the eyes along with food for thought. Intertwined with amazing free diving scenes, it tells the storie...
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‘Hey, spunky, come over here!’: how Audrey Napanangka grew a life-changing family

Napanangka and her Sicilian-born partner have ‘grown up’ more than 30 foster kids in the Northern Territory. A new doc...

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Solstice documentary gains widespread screening opportunity through Demand.Film

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