Fishermen, The

The spine of this film is a series of interviews between a dogged, retired detective, Gordon Davie, and a long-term prisoner, James Ryan O'Neill. The location for these interviews is a large corrugated-iron shed on a lonely hilltop at Tasmania's Hayes Prison Farm. This is O'Neill's domain – the place where he breeds worms, rats and mice for the prison system. Through these interviews, O'Neill is revealed as an intelligent and articulate person – the antithesis of a crazed killer. Yet over the course of the film, frightening questions are raised about his past activities.

Useful for late secondary and tertiary students in SOSE, Health and Physical Education, Legal Studies, Justice Studies, the Criminal Law, Forensic Science, Counselling and Health, Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, Media Studies and Communication. Also useful for Domestic Violence education programs, prison rehabilitation programs, corrective services training and police training.