A profile of two men who go to exceptional lengths to improve – and in some cases, save – the lives of those with nowhere else to turn. They risk their freedom by supplying black market medicinal cannabis to thousands suffering from chronic and terminal illnesses.
Direction
Intimate access without exploitation—rare for activist docs.
Writing
Lets subjects speak; no preachy narrator needed.
Production
Guerrilla filmmaking that mirrors its subjects' risk.
Director
Ned Donohoe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during Australia's shifting medicinal cannabis laws; Luke and Nicholas operated in a legal gray zone that technically still exists for personal cultivation.
Director Ned Donohoe met the subjects through a friend of a friend at a music festival—he had no documentary experience and shot most footage himself on a borrowed camera.
US
AU
