Sometimes it’s the simplest of stories that utterly disarm you. Like dropping in on the everyday life of the family at the heart of [CENSORED] filmmaker Sari Braithwaite’s latest documentary Because We Have Each Other, which has just debuted at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).
That’s par for the course when making documentaries in Australia, Braithwaite notes, pointing to Australian filmmakers Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson as personal heroes. ‘I remember seeing this interview with them in the 80s and Bob says, ‘What the documentary maker needs more than anything is time,’ because it eradicates that thing of luck. If you’re there all the time, it’s not luck.’
