Australia Behind Bars is a Nine Australia series I worked on as a shooter producer in 2021. I spent four months in Wellington and Silverwater maximum security prisons filming the day to day lives of both correctional officers and inmates. I met some amazing people and saw a very different side of life. The series takes a look at what day to day life is like in Australian prisons and correctional centres. I was a one man team producing, directing and cameraman shooting on my Sony F5 camera and using various cinema lenses and tools such as DJI Ronin gimbal and drone.
It took awhile to gain the inmates trust to film and we were granted access to pods where the inmates are held. We were thought of as a news crew and it took time spent with the inmates chatting and hanging out for them to start to trust us and open up. The series has just gone to air on Nine and can be watched on Thursday nights at 9pm.