Only months after becoming a father for the first time, Jeremy is diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer on his heart. With a prognosis of less than 6 months to live, he urgently sets out to document for his children who he is, what he has achieved and what has given his life meaning. As he struggles to remain positive and search for a cure, he is confronted with the fact that only 200 people in medical history have had this cancer, most discovered only after death, and none of them alive today. With his twins less than one year old, his motivation to survive is intense as he battles with hope and pragmatism in his final months. What matters most in life is crystallised as he faces everything he has to lose. As universal as death is, it is only when staring into its face, that the meaning of life becomes apparent.
Mitzi has been working in the film industry for over 30 years as a documentary director, producer and editor. Alongside her production career she has worked in the academy teaching documentary production and screen studies and Murdoch University WA before being employed as co-head of documentary department at the national film school, AFTRS for 6 years. Mitzi’s credits include: as Producer – KaChing! Pokie Nation; Night Parrot Stories; Memoirs of a Plague; End of the Rainbow. As Director – A Common Purpose; Chinese Take Away; Hatred and as Executive Producer – Backtrack Boys; Undermined: Tales of the Kimberley; Leunig Fragments; Zach’s Ceremony; Constance on the Edge; I Am a Girl; Surgery Ship.
Mitzi has a Phd in Cultural Studies. She co-founded and is the CEO of Documentary Australia Foundation which has developed a new paradigm for funding and outreach of social impact documentary films. Documentary Australia Foundation is a not for profit organization that connects philanthropy and filmmaking to inspire social change.
She has been a board director of the Film and Television Institute in Western Australia and AIDC (Australian International Documentary Conference where she served as co-chair for 3 years). She was Jury President at APSA in 2018 and has participated on juries of film festivals in Australia (SFF, AACTA, ADG, Walkleys, Logies, Persian International Film Festival), in Iran (Tehran International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival) China (Guangzhou Documentary Film Festival).
