About
A journalist’s ear,
now turned to film.
Paul Daffey has spent a working life asking people about theirs. Now he puts those stories on film.
Melbourne writer & journalist
Thirty years of asking people about their lives.
Paul is a Melbourne writer and editor who spent many years as a footy journalist, and has written several books on Victorian country football. He lives in the inner north, and also leads walking tours of the city.
Over decades in newsrooms and out on the road across regional Victoria, he learned how to draw a story out of someone — to find the moment that matters, and let a person tell it in their own words.
That is the craft he brings to every film. Not a slick production, but an honest, professional record of a life: captured calmly, and kept for the people who come after.
I have just always liked asking people about their lives.
Honest
No script and no performance. A real conversation, recorded with care, so the person comes across as themselves.
Unhurried
The pace is gentle on purpose. Older voices are given room, and the focus stays on getting the story right.
Made to keep
A finished film and a hard drive, built to outlast the telling and stay in the family for the people who come after.
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