Feature documentary I’m Wanita is a piece of travelling chaos which stuck out like a burning guitar at the 2021 Sydney Film Festival and won the Documentary Australia Foundation Award. Wanita Bhantiar herself is a Loretta Lynn tragic who committed herself utterly to becoming a Country Music Star. Her blinding vision took her to set up in Tamworth 25 years ago, tour when she could, marry a Turkish cowboy (in Turkey) and plot to record in Nashville. She calls herself ‘Australia’s Queen of Honky Tonk’.
Director Matthew Walker on making I’m Wanita
Making I'm Wanita was a five year crusade through the perils of a very difficult craft.
23 Dec 2021
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