The production company Flickchicks are making an Ipswich-based drag queen documentary entitled ‘Bowled Over’.
The documentary follows a group of drag performers called ‘Taboo’, who have been keeping the local lawn bowls club afloat with immensely popular shows.
Writer and director Mandy Lake says, “For all its apparent fun, frocks and frivolity, it’ll give me a cunning platform to tackle some deeper, topical issues such as the current suicide epidemic within the LGTBQI+ community.”
The one-hour documentary is being commissioned as part of SBS’s Untold Australia, and to assist those from diverse backgrounds, production is offering a training opportunity for an early-career filmmaker from an underrepresented group in the screen industry.