Pip Starr

I began making videos with Bent TV, a queer video collective and a member group of Channel 31, a community TV station in Melbourne, in 1995. Soon after picking up a camera I became attracted to stories about social justice. Not just for the reasons of justice, though that remains a key focus, but for the attraction to a good story. I get much inspiration from activists. There are so many switched on, powerful and inspired people, who take all sorts of risks in the name of justice. I am honoured to be trusted enough by many of these people to be able to tell their stories.

Pip Starr

"Though he made films for Friends of the Earth, completed a number of short projects independently, guided several teams under terrible conditions, and shot beautiful footage with great determination, he did not have an Australian broadcaster willing to back him. They would not commit even one hour of national television time to a world view won by his experience and fortitude."

David Tiley

SPECIAL NOTE March 2011:

The director, Pip Starr, unfortunately died in January 2008. "Fight For Country" remains as a tribute to his passion and dedication to this cause. This document is largely as Pip wrote it in 2002. Approximately a year before his death, he carried out some further editing to Fight For Country which included moving much of the material in the original 12-minute preamble into a new separate work called "Atomic Footprints".

Bill Runting, Producer


Desde a primeira vez que eu peguei em uma câmera tornei-me atraído por histó- rias sobre a justiça social. Não apenas por razões de justiça, embora seja o foco principal, mas pela atração a uma boa história. Eu recebo muita inspiração dos ativistas. Há tantas pessoas conectadas, poderosas e inspiradas que se submetem a todos os tipos de riscos em nome da justiça. Tenho a honra de receber a confiança de muitas dessas pessoas e ser capaz de dizer suas histórias.

Pip Starr

"Embora ele tenha feito filmes para os Amigos da Terra, completou uma série de projetos de curtas de forma independente, orientando várias equipes em condi- ções terríveis, e produziu belos filmes com grande determinação. Ele não tinha uma emissora australiana disposta a apoiá-lo. Eles não iriam comprometer uma hora do tempo da televisão nacional para uma visão de mundo que revela a sua experiência e coragem."

David Tiley

"O Diretor Pip Starr faleceu em janeiro de 2008. Luta pela Terra permanece como um tributo à sua paixão e dedicação a esta causa. Este documentário é em grande parte como Pip escreveu, em 2002. Aproximadamente um ano antes de sua morte, ele realizou algumas novas edições."

Produtor Bill Ruting 

Australia, 2006, 14 min, English Documentary Australia is facing what could be the largest expansion of our nuclear industry ever, with the proposals for increased uranium mining, nuclear power generation and a radioactive waste dump. This film looks at some of the reasons why we must continue to oppose nuclear proliferaton.
Australia 2001/2002, 62 min Writer/director/camera: Pip Starr Rockhopper Productions, www.rhproductions.com.au The documentary took 4 years and 4 weeks to complete. It tells the story of one of Australia's largest ever land rights and environmental campaigns, the fight to stop the building of a second uranium mine within Kakadu National Park. Made with the cooperation of the Mirrar aboriginal clan, the owners of the land on which Jabiluka is proposed to be built. Whatthe film makes clear is that the Land Rights Act has is not enabling aboriginal people to control activities on their land, and that their political and cultural rights continue to be eroded. Fight for Country is a powerful and inspiring story of an aboriginal nation standing up for their country, and of the non-...