Deep Water - The Real Story (2016)

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	David McMahon	Himself
	Sue Thompson	Herself
	Peter Russell	Himself
	Ted Russell	Himself
	Susie Elelman	Herself
	Craig Ellis	Himself
	Duncan McNab	Himself
	Jacqueline Milledge	Herself
	Rick Feneley	Himself
	Dean Ingram	Himself
	Les Skidmore	Himself
	Shane Brown	Himself
	Malcolm Smith	Himself
	Paul Simes	Himself
	Alan Rosendale	Himself
	Steve Page	Himself
	Dr. Allan Cala	Himself
	Steve Johnson	Himself
	Dan Glick	Himself
	Michael Smith	Extra
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	Mitchell Butel	Thomas Katz

Director/Choreographer

Amanda Blue

Producer

Darren DALE
Stewart Dean

Writer/Composer

Amanda Blue
Jacob Hickey

Cinematography

Simon Morris

Music

Antony Partos

In the 1980s and 1990s a wave of murders bloodied the idyllic coastline of Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The victims: young homosexual men. Disturbing gang assaults were being carried out on coastal cliffs around Sydney, and mysterious deaths officially recorded as ‘suicide’, ‘disappearance’ and ‘misadventure’. Individual stories are woven together by emotional first person interviews and detailed re-enactments, piecing together the facts of these unsolved cases, decades later.

Edition Details
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Tags	heritage
Links	* Commentaries: SBS (Australia's Special Broadcasting Service) ‡ News: Queerty "Hunting gay men for sport: Man’s fall from cliff ruled a hate crime 30 years later" ‡ News: Queerty "Police arrest suspect in 30 year old case of murder of a gay man" Deep Water at Core for Movies TheMovieDb.org IMDB

References
Streaming, VoD	Amazon Prime
IMDb Voters	<500

Deep Water is a conventional interview documentary exploring a large number of murders and assaults on gaymen in and around Sydney, Australia in the 1970s and 80s. It convincingly posits the initial investigations were bungled and covered up by the police. A strong argument is made for police officer involvements in the murders and assaults. While homosexual relationships had by that time been decriminalized, queer bashing was still widely practiced by youthful gangs and some elements of the police. Deep Water is an important queer heritage film.