Deep Water - The Real Story
Blackfella Films (2016)
Crime, Documentary, Queer Themes/Interest
Not In Collection
#1329
7*
Seen It:  Yes
(04/22/2018 Amazon)
IMDB   7.5
87 mins Australia / English
Streaming, VoD 
Director
Amanda Blue
Producer Darren DALE
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
References
Streaming, VoD Amazon Video
IMDb Voters <500

Notes
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.