Location shooting is underway for a movie based upon a real-life debate surrounding a potato race in the NSW southern highlands.
Key points:
- Filming has actually started for the Paramount Plus production of The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race in the NSW southern highlands
- The movie follows a mission for equivalent spend for ladies contending in a yearly potato-carrying race
- Playwright and scriptwriter Melanie Tait matured in Robertson, house of the Big Potato, where a few of the occasions illustrated occurred
The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, composed by Melanie Tait, is requiring overdue additionals for scenes at Robertson and Bundanoon.
The movie is based upon Ms Tait’s play of the very same name, which she started composing quickly after learning guys who contended in the Robertson Show’s yearly potato-carrying race would be paid 5 times more than the females.
” I matured in Robertson and I invested great deals of years as a rural press reporter around various areas in Australia,” she stated.
” I seem like I had that play in me, I simply required the story to hook it on, which’s what took place.”
Back in 2018, Ms Tait took a trip back to her home town to discover that the cash prize for the very first chap to end up bring a 50- kg sack over 400 metres in the Australian Championship Potato Race was $1,000
But females who won got simply $200 for going the very same range with a 12.5- kg sack on their shoulders.
It is now equivalent pay.
Based on a real story
At the time, Ms Tait’s household owned the primary traveler destination in the area, the well-known Robertson Big Potato.
The self-described previous “Big Potato heiress” was annoyed and began a GoFundMe project, so females potato racers might get the exact same quantity as guys.
” My bestie is a theatre director, and she called me, as she does every year when she is pitching concepts to theatre business, and stated, ‘Have you got any concepts for a brand-new play?’
” And I stated, ‘This thing I went through with the potato race would be a great play’.
” She pitched it and after that I composed it.”
The play was a hit, going to sellout reveals throughout the nation, from the Melville Theatre in the Western Australian town of Palmyra to the Royalty Theatre in Adelaide and the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney.
Now, it is set to be a movie starring Claire van der Boom (Blacklight), Katie Wall (Puberty Blues), Genevieve Lemon (Ticket to Paradise) and Tiriel Mora (The Castle), after winning support by Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW and the NSW Regional Film Fund.
” I composed the movie script from my play, which was terrific since it was my very first movie script and it’s with a huge studio Paramount Plus,” she stated.
Ms Tait stated she was both anxious and ecstatic about enjoying the movie shoot however didn’t wish to sidetrack those with a task to do, so would attempt not go to frequently.
The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race is because of screen in the very first half of 2023.