DEEPER WA Premiere: Special Event Screening + Live Q&A

Join us for the Special Event screening on Sunday, 12 October at 3.30pm at Luna Leederville with a Live Q&A featuring Dr Richard Harris, SC OAM and Dr Craig Challen, SC OAM, Heroes of the Thai Cave Rescue | 2019 Australians of the Year.

A lauded Australian documentarian and two heroes from the Thai cave rescue come together for a gripping new adventure into deep water.

Richard “Harry” Harris and Craig Challen know a thing or two about diving. Named Australians of the Year for their pivotal role in the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue which saved the lives of 12 Thai children and their coach. Now they are returning to the waters – this time, in New Zealand’s Pearse Resurgence, in pursuit of perhaps the deepest-dived cave system in the world. Accompanied by their crew and filmmaker Jennifer Peedom, they descend to chart a new path forward.

Peedom has crafted some of the country’s most eye-opening and successful works of documentary, including Sherpa (2015), Mountain (2017) and River (2021). Working here with the sublime cinematography of Benjamin Dowie (Embrace Kids, 2022) and an enthralling score by award-winning composer Anthony Partos (Animal Kingdom; The Rover), she captures the dangers lurking in the waters as well as the camaraderie and nervous excitement that come with thrill-seeking. But Deeper goes beyond the superficial pleasure of risk – it’s also a sensitive examination of the profound yearning that compels a person to plunge into such a daring feat.