Opening Shot: Meatwork

Given there has been some discussion on the site, following news of Australian Story‘s episode tonight, I thought readers might be interested in checking out ABC2’s Opening Shot doco: Meatwork this Sunday.

Opening Shot features new films by emerging talent.

Can you eat meat and really care about the animals on your dinner plate? Documentarian and meat-eater, Madeleine Parry wants to find out. So she enlists to become an abattoir meat-worker, and works her way up the production line toward the ‘killbox’. With unparalleled access to a slaughterhouse, she explores the experiences of the animals we eat and the men who kill them. As she truly becomes part of the industrial meat production process, she faces the reality of killing hundreds of animals a day. Maddie wants to know the truth, but can she stomach it?

Meatwork is A Projector Films Production. It was developed and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and financed with the assistance of the South Australian Film Corporation and Screen Australia.

Director: Madeleine Parry
Madeleine was awarded the Emerging Filmmaker award at the 2011 South Australian Screen Awards, shortly after the completion of her first short documentary Murder Mouth. The film won ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Cinematography’ at 2011 Bondi Film Festival, was nominated for an IF Award for Best Short Doco and screened in festivals internationally.

Producer: Daniel Joyce
Daniel received the Adelaide University’s Graduate Entrepreneurial scholarship and subsequently co-founded Projector Films after collaborating on the 2009 Tropfest finalist Jackie’s Spring Palace. Other shorts include Paper Planes and Collision (MIFF official selection) and the short documentary Murder Mouth, winner of the Best Film at the Bondi Short Film Festival, Best Doco at Cineglobe (Switzerland) and the Silver award at Shorts Adelaide.

Sunday 11 November 9.30pm ABC2.