Mm

... about this unique character.

Um, and there was just obstacle after obstacle, but somehow the story would never let go, and, um, I managed to persist with it, uh, eventually make the film, which was really my whole objective, and then the film just went...

It just sort of exploded.

Yep.

Uh, there was a international film festival from about 1958 in Adelaide, and I was in fact on the board of that festival when it got sort of disbanded through an extraordinary set of circumstances when the attorney general banned a film that was supposed to be in the film festival.

Mm-hmm

... about this un- unique character.

Um, and there was just obstacle after obstacle, but somehow the story would never let go.

And, um, I managed to persist with it, uh, eventually make the film, which was really my whole objective, and then the film just went...

It just sort of exploded.

Yep.

Uh, there was a international film festival from about 1958 in Adelaide, and I was in fact on the board of that festival when it got sort of disbanded through an extraordinary set of circumstances when the attorney general banned a film that was supposed to be in the film festival.

I mean, what was it about him during that first encounter which made you want to try for a decade to actually get his story on film?

Well, I mean, I happened to go to a small concert that he was playing in Adelaide.

He and Gillian had just recently been married in Perth.

They were on their way to the eastern states.

They stopped in Adelaide.

He had a one-night concert in a small concert hall.

Probably 100 people or less might have been there, and it was just so mesmerizing, his He might be mental technique as a concert pianist, but it had become, you know, obviously affected by his years away from the concert platform, his years in and out of mental institutions and so on.

30 years later, remastering it in 4K, what are we going to see in that remastering that maybe we might have missed slightly in the original version?

I mean, what was about him during that first encounter which made you want to try for a decade to actually get his story on film?

Well, I mean, I happened to go to a small concert that he was playing in Adelaide.

He and Gillian had just recently been married in Perth.

They were on their way to the eastern states.

They stopped in Adelaide.

He had a one-night concert in a small concert hall.

Probably 100 people or less might have been there.

What are we going to see in that remastering that maybe we might have missed slightly in the original version?