An afternoon in the country with a family in Dubbo, NSW with Family Filmmaker and Photographer, Courtney Holmes

When I make a film, my goal is not to tell a literal story of your day. It’s not about the things you do, or the places you go. It’s about the tiny micro moments that happen while you’re doing those things. As I sat in the back of the buggy riding around this family’s farm I was hyper aware even then, of looking for those micro moments. I could have focused on the things we were doing, but instead I was looking for the in between. The conversation about wheat and what it’s used for, and the fact that little Eddie has all this in his farmer’s book. The look on Bella’s face when she swings on the gate. Liv's life and experience as the third child who gets a used tissue pushed in her general direction - yet she smiles all the way through it. The way that Cameron kept an eye on Eddie as they rounded up the sheep. The look in Kylie’s eyes when she was with her beautiful horse. The significance of rain at the end of the film, in this drought stricken town. Everything I include in this film is a tiny, but hugely important moment, that makes this family who they are. And I’m in love with every second of it.