The Giants, in cinemas this month, is a biopic of iconic environmentalist Bob Brown, the first openly gay member of parliament in Australia and leader of the world’s first Green party. It’s also very much about the life of trees, and promises ‘a joyous exploration of the forest delivered in a new, creative and awe-inspiring way’. We spoke to the film’s co-director Rachael Antony.
The Giants is an attempt to make something beautiful out of the ashes of the Black Summer bushfires. It’s a love letter to the trees, intertwined with the story of Bob Brown. When we pitched it to Bob he said, ‘I’ll do it for the trees’. So the trees and the forest were integral to the project from the start – they provided the creative oxygen.
