Peter Du Cane

Nascimento : 1951-01-01, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa

História

Peter Du Cane is a documentary film producer, director and writer. He was born in South Africa to an Australian mother and half-British half-French father. His family lived in Namibia for three years and Sierra Leone, West Africa for eight years, before moving to the UK. In 1983, he established an Australian documentary production company, Wildfilm Australia. Peter has worked with the Chinese documentary industry since 2004.

Filmes

O Projeto Laramie
O Projeto Laramie
Co-Executive Producer
Na pequena cidade de Laramie, o corpo de Matthew Shepard, um estudante universitário de 19 anos, foi encontrado preso a uma cerca com marcas de um brutal espancamento. Dois outros jovens moradores da região foram descobertos como os autores do crime. Não demorou muito tempo para que a polícia descobrisse que a condição de homossexual foi determinante para que escolhessem Matthew como vítima. Um mês depois da tragédia, o dramaturgo nova-iorquino Moisés Kaufman viajou até Laramie com planos de criar uma obra teatral que servisse como reflexão sobre o episódio. Nas palavras de Kaufman “o projeto não é apenas sobre o caso. É sobre a cidade: por que aconteceu em Laramie, o que os moradores estão dizendo, como eles se sentem e o que pensam a respeito do que aconteceu”. “The Laramie Project” é a versão filmada do trabalho, com um grande elenco de atores interpretando os membros da comunidade.
Big Brother of Christmas Island
Big Brother of Christmas Island
Writer
Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.
Big Brother of Christmas Island
Big Brother of Christmas Island
Producer
Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.
The Last of the Nomads
The Last of the Nomads
Producer
Like an antipodean version of Romeo and Juliet, it emerges that Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr Bill Peasley and one of their own number, a childhood friend named Mudjon. The film takes Dr Peasley back into the desert to relive his momentous journey with Mudjon and culminates with poignant archival footage of the elderly couple found naked and starving.