If you only go to see one film this year make sure it is “Helen Kelly-Together “by Director Tony Sutorius and produced by Catherine Fitzgerald.
I went to a morning session today and came away feeling a mixture of inspiration and anger.
Helen was an exceptional woman and in Tony Sutorius she could not have picked a better film maker to capture the last year of her life. He largely funded it himself because he could not get a mainstream broadcaster to support the project.
So it’s a work of love by all those who gave their time and talent to make the film – and it shows.
All of the above was inspirational
What made me angry is that the film exposes how we are doing bugger all about the appalling on – going work related deaths in our country and how Worksafe, far more often than not , put the blame on the employee, not the employer for the death.
It’s fine and dandy that this Labour coalition want to promote “well- being” . How about walking the talk and legislating compulsory safety- at -work education and prosecute employers more often and more rigorously for callous disregard of human life , so that when Dads,Mums, brothers and sisters, friends and whanau leave for work in the morning, they have the best possible chance of coming home that night.
Helen Kelly – Together will be screening at 28 sessions around the country.
Please make sure you catch one of them.This is a very important film that deserves your support
“I just want people to be kind. It would make a hell of a difference”.
Helen Kelly
Bryan Bruce is one of NZs most respected documentary makers and public intellectuals who has tirelessly exposed NZs neoliberal economic settings as the main cause for social issues.
I’d pay to see it online. Hopefully that’s possible later on.
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