And all the while, I’m thinking, there’s people hurting and those are the First Nations people - and their story needs to be told. The brain’s going nineteen to the dozen, trying to make sense of it. We headed out there and we started talking to people, hearing this jargon that we really weren’t familiar with. Peter: To some degree, we didn’t keep our bearings. What questions were guiding your story and how did you keep your bearings, wading through all the complexity and detail? I’m interested in how you and Rory navigated through the jargon. Then maybe 15 minutes in, we get all the terms, with gigalitres, sustainable diversion limit, efficiency measures and all the rest. The film starts with a dry riverbed, talking about the power of the river, what it means, the sustenance that it provides and the gravity of the theft of the river. Tyler: There’s an interesting movement to the documentary and, in a lot of ways, I think it mirrors the experience of trying to understand what’s happening in the Basin. And, you know, the mere seven or eight hour drive up to Menindee to start chasing down the story and filming - a process that then took many, many weeks to finish, and I’m sure we can be up there even now. Within an hour, we’d packed the car and we were gone. They were not telling us about the impact of this killer event on the First Nations people who live along that river. Let’s just go and document this.’ Rory is a filmmaker, he’s got all the gear, and I’m an anthropologist and I just had a real sense that the media was telling us about the dead fish. I said, ‘We just need to go get in the car. We were looking at that and seeing that we just need to do something different. Peter Yates: Well, yeah, we were sitting here, these days living in Maldon, and saw that video from Tolarno Station, Rob McBride and Dick Arnold in the river picking up dead cod and this was just harrowing stuff. You’ve talked about seeing the footage of the Murray cod after the Menindee fish kills and, from what it sounds like, pretty much just getting into the car with your son Rory, the director of the film.Ĭould you talk about when you knew that this project would be a film? What story were you looking to capture that you felt other media was missing? Tyler Rotche: I really like the story of how the film came into being.
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