Council knew immediately when we reviewed the Ashwater Films proposal that Ash was the right person for the job. His background as an entrepreneurial Aboriginal film maker was an excellent fit for our needs. Council gave Ash a very broad commission and invited him to give his creativity full flight on the film, and we have had an incredibly positive experience working with Ash and his team.

Ash engaged deeply and authentically with local Aboriginal Elders, with the Aboriginal artists, with Council’s Mayor and with Aboriginal leaders. Council responded positively to every suggestion of Ash, and we and the artists and our broader stakeholders are delighted with the resulting film, an astounding, mature expression of his extraordinary professional capability.

Using only the voices of Aboriginal people themselves to speak of survival, Reconciliation and healing, the film is an elegant and powerful additional creative element to the award-winning Survival Memorial and it will continue to boldly restate and amplify the Memorial’s deeper purpose.

Ash is a superlative practitioner in cinematography and film production and on behalf of Council, I recommend him wholeheartedly for any project in cultural
heritage story telling and film making.