Baxter and Me (2016)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 20M

Director : Gillian Leahy

Synopsis

In this charming documentary, director Gillian Leahy combines her two great passions: dogs and film. She openly reveals her life story through a canine prism – lovers may come and go, but there are always the dogs. Leahy also weaves in her filmmaking career, starting out at the Women's Film Workshop in 1970s Sydney and the newly formed AFTRS. Dogs have carried her through childhood illness and heartbreak; in return she lavishes care, and frets over their waywardness. Today, she shares her life with a big brown Labrador called Baxter. There are echoes of Leahy's award-winning My Life Without Steve, a study in love and loss, in this meditative and romantic film.

Actors

Crews

Gillian Leahy
Gillian Leahy
Director
Sue Brooks
Sue Brooks
Producer
Gillian Leahy
Gillian Leahy
Writer
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake
Original Music Composer
Steve Macdonald
Steve Macdonald
Director of Photography
Denise Haslem
Denise Haslem
Editor
Frank Haines
Frank Haines
Line Producer