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Baxter and Me

2016-06-14 en 80m
Documentary
In this charming documentary, director Gillian Leahy combines her two great passions: dogs and film. She openly reveals her life story through a canine prism – lovers may come and go, but there are always the dogs. Leahy also weaves in her filmmaking career, starting out at the Women's Film Workshop in 1970s Sydney and the newly formed AFTRS. Dogs have carried her through childhood illness and heartbreak; in return she lavishes care, and frets over their waywardness. Today, she shares her life with a big brown Labrador called Baxter. There are echoes of Leahy's award-winning My Life Without Steve, a study in love and loss, in this meditative and romantic film.

Producer

Sue Brooks

Director

Gillian Leahy

Writer

Gillian Leahy

Editor

Denise Haslem

Original Music Composer

Elizabeth Drake

Director of Photography

Steve Macdonald

Status

Released

Countries

  • Australia

Companies

  • Gecko Films Pty. Ltd.