A Song of Good

Gary Cradle (Gareth Reeves) wants to go straight, but has to face up to a drug habit, family dysfunction and the burden of guilt over a past sin. This redemptive recovery yarn from writer/director Kingi Rummler (then known as Gregory King) debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Rummler's second feature, the film won Qantas Film and TV awards for the best picture made for under $1 million, and for Ginny Loane's camerawork. Reeves and Ian Mune (playing a far-from-supportive father) were also nominated for awards. The film won media attention when it was made available to watch free online for 24 hours in February 2009.

I wanted to give a strong sense of an environment that is alienating on many levels — the peer group, the family, the society at large. To create a sense that Gary’s world is not able to really support him in his redemption, his struggle to change, to be a ‘good’ person, so to speak.

– Writer/director Kingi Rummler, in an interview with Lumière, July 2008

Key Cast & Crew

Gin Loane

Cinematographer

Danielle Cormack

As: Rachel Cradle

Gareth Reeves

As: Gary Cradle

Ian Mune

As: Ron Cradle

Mark Foster

Producer

Kingi Rummler (aka Gregory King)

Writer, Director