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From Kev Franzi’s Journeys in Time

80 YEARS Capturing the Australian Image

THE JOURNEY
This year I’m celebrating 80 years working in the Australian film industry and its been
the most wonderful journey anyone could wish for. For most of that time I’ve been a
Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker with a few years working in TV Drama as
Senior Film Editor on the Crawford Productions Homicide, Division 4, Hunter and
Showcase? Then I returned to my first love – documentaries.

Fancy being paid to travel all over the country getting into the most exciting places a
young fellow could imagine. I was paid to meet and work with famous and talented
people and learn from their experience. I was paid to go to the football grand final and
the Melbourne Cup and shoot it in colour for the very first time. Always shooting the
action from the “Best seat in the house” and in doing so, I have filmed and/or screened
almost every aspect of Australian life. For over 40 years I have celebrated and
showcased Australia’s LIVING HISTORY and the work of the photographers and
filmmakers who captured it.

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