THE OASIS

THE OASIS
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THE OASIS

A feature documentary about Australia’s homeless youth.

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SYNOPSIS

Tough kids from tough backgrounds living dangerous lives — these are the young people of Oasis, a homeless youth refuge in inner-city Sydney. No story is too horrific, no circumstance too dire, no kid too damaged for its tireless director, Captain Paul Moulds.

Father figure, counsellor, saviour, and an orphan himself, Paul is nothing short of a legend amongst those who stumble in at breaking point, with nowhere left to go. Only Paul is there through all the chaos, from the birth of new babies to the funerals of those who self-destruct prematurely.

This raw observational documentary filmed over two years, charts the fraught lives of Paul’s extended family and captures his daily battle to save these lost children of the so-called ‘Lucky Country’.

vimeo ON DEMAND

Directors:
Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Ian Darling

Producer:
Ian Darling

Cinematographer:
Sascha Ettinger Epstein

Editor:
Sally Fryer

Composer:
Felicity Fox

Executive Producer:
Susan MacKinnon

Line Producers:
Mary Macrae and Isabel Perez

Assistant Editor:
Hilary Balmond

SYNOPSIS

Tough kids from tough backgrounds living dangerous lives — these are the young people of Oasis, a homeless youth refuge in inner-city Sydney. No story is too horrific, no circumstance too dire, no kid too damaged for its tireless director, Captain Paul Moulds.

Father figure, counsellor, saviour, and an orphan himself, Paul is nothing short of a legend amongst those who stumble in at breaking point, with nowhere left to go. Only Paul is there through all the chaos, from the birth of new babies to the funerals of those who self-destruct prematurely.

This raw observational documentary filmed over two years, charts the fraught lives of Paul’s extended family and captures his daily battle to save these lost children of the so-called ‘Lucky Country’.

vimeo ON DEMAND

Directors:
Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Ian Darling

Producer:
Ian Darling

Cinematographer:
Sascha Ettinger Epstein

Editor:
Sally Fryer

Composer:
Felicity Fox

Executive Producer:
Susan MacKinnon

Line Producers:
Mary Macrae and Isabel Perez

Assistant Editor:
Hilary Balmond

SYNOPSIS

Tough kids from tough backgrounds living dangerous lives — these are the young people of Oasis, a homeless youth refuge in inner-city Sydney. No story is too horrific, no circumstance too dire, no kid too damaged for its tireless director, Captain Paul Moulds.

Father figure, counsellor, saviour, and an orphan himself, Paul is nothing short of a legend amongst those who stumble in at breaking point, with nowhere left to go. Only Paul is there through all the chaos, from the birth of new babies to the funerals of those who self-destruct prematurely.

This raw observational documentary filmed over two years, charts the fraught lives of Paul’s extended family and captures his daily battle to save these lost children of the so-called ‘Lucky Country’.

Directors:
Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Ian Darling

Producer:
Ian Darling

Cinematographer:
Sascha Ettinger Epstein

Editor:
Sally Fryer

Composer:
Felicity Fox

Executive Producer:
Susan MacKinnon

Line Producers:
Mary Macrae and Isabel Perez

Assistant Editor:
Hilary Balmond

vimeo ON DEMAND