Movie

I’d like to to introduce you to the team behind our upcoming movie, Long Tan based upon the true story of The Battle of Long Tan.

First of all there is me, Martin Walsh! I approached the seven Long Tan combat commanders (Harry Smith, Morrie Stanley, Dave Sabben, Geoff Kendall, Bob Buick, Adrian Roberts & Bob Grandin) back in late 2004 to secure the documentary and film rights.

To ensure as many people as possible were aware of the Long Tan story around the 40th Anniversary of the battle in 2006, I created, researched, co-wrote, produced and marketed (phew) the ASTRA award winning and TV Week Logie Award Nominated documentary on the Battle of Long Tan for The History Channel in Australia and New Zealand. The documentary was financed by FOXTEL and myself. I am also a senior marketing executive specialising in strategic and executional marketing. This is an interview I did for Sky News about Long Tan on the 41st anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan in 2007:

Charles Hannah who Executive Produced the acclaimed movie ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’ starring Anthony Hopkins and Directed by Roger Donaldson (’13 Days’, ‘The Recruit’, ‘The Bank Job’) is producing Long Tan with me. Charles has also been behind many other films such as ’Newcastle’, ’Unfolding Florence’ and ’Control’.

The amazing Bruce Beresford ‘Driving Miss Daisy’, ’Double Jeopardy’, ’Black Robe’, ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ and ‘Breaker Morant’ is Writing and Directing Long Tan.

We have two awesome Executive Producers on board. Meyer Shwarzstein who co-produced Bridge to Terabithia and Peter Wetherell. Meyer and Peter are based in Los Angeles and bring many years of independent film financing, distribution and sales experience to the project.

In 2009 we also brought in an additional writer, Justin Monjo (Farscape, The Alice) to help with the script whilst Bruce Beresford was busy filming Mao’s Last Dancer.

And of course we also have the unique talent and experience of Graham ‘Syd’ Cassidy who has been handling all of our media and PR for the project since 2004.