I’ve been asked by the Blue Mountains World Heritage institute to direct and edit a documentary about the great Leura bushfire of 1957, the worst bushfire in NSW history, when 200 houses, shops and schools were destroyed.  Glenn Meade from Blue Mountains National Parks applied for Community Resilience funding to make the film and the Rural Fire Service have come on board as well, to honour the people who survived this devastating fire and to collect their stories. 

We will research the events and survivors this year and hope to film interviews in February next year. So far, we have newspaper articles from November 1957 to December via Trove, which show what a hot and dry season it was and how many fires occurred in NSW before the big day.