Category: Documentaries

  • Country rain – from Switzerland to Nigeria.

    Driving through stinging rain. Grey clouds hang like a shroud, whilst further to the south, sweeping sheets of white cover the hills and fields, causing small streams in paddocks to run, puddling at fence lines. Today I am going to film a small country funeral for a Swiss woman, who…

  • A Christmas Story (to be read aloud)

    T ‘was the night before Christmas And in Little Bethlehem Mary’s labour had commenced “Thank God” she said, “Amen”.   T ‘was the night before Christmas And Mary’s labour had begun “I’m glad I’m off that donkey now, My bottom is quite numb!”   There was no room inside the…

  • The Spirit of Boothville

    Many of you already know me. You call me atmosphere. What you feel is the patina of a thousand families, the shared tradition of birth, the dignity, the feelings that are right, the choices you have made. Recently I have felt your fears, when it was thought my spirit might…

  • Jacquie’s Funeral – Thoughts.

    Driving through canyons of concrete and kilometres of road works, I am relying on my GPS to take me to a large Maori family at Redbank Plains, to film their beloved daughter and sister who died quickly and tragically of an undiagnosed tumour in her chest. She was 37, she had…

  • Remembering Daniel Morcombe

    Build strength in Tibrogargan: Grasp the earths core and call out to ancient spirits; Fly home to mums loving arms and your fathers heart. For eight years you’ve slept and dreamed of home, Now is the time. Your time to shout and be heard. Call out! Be known, and rest…

  • Bruce Buckham Funeral Highlights

    The Celebration of Bruce Buckham’s Life, with RAAF Guard of Honour. I had the pleasure of filming Bruce Buckham’s large funeral last week, and here is the short version of it. The family assured me it would spectacular, and it was. Bruce was a war hero, pilot and highly decorated.…

  • Patty Beecham Productions – Showreel

    Helping you celebrate your life and milestones!

  • Franco’s Funeral

    I’ve just finished editing a beautiful funeral; it was a small, intimate gathering of 40 for an old, much-adored, rascally Italian chef, who managed to produced a couple of families and leave a roomful of laughter and tears behind. The Service was performed by his own family, no celebrant or…

  • A mourning of winter sun.

    It’s been two years today since I found him, lying with his face to the sun. He was still warm, probably from the streaming yellow winter sunshine filling his bedroom with a golden light. He wore grey trousers and a Singlet with an unbuttoned shirt over it. On his feet…

  • Letting Go…Signs of Passing

    Have you had any personal experiences of your Loved Ones passing over? Would you be prepared to share them with us? At a time of grief many of us are sensitive to the other world, and perhaps we see into things too much, or perhaps they are really there. Perhaps…