Audio: Birds of a Feather

BIRDS OF A FEATHER is about Patty Mark and Debra Tranter; two women from suburban Melbourne who became radical activists fighting for the rights of battery hens. A story of conflicting roles and identities, the program is a study of passion - that ineffable source of meaning and life-purpose that motivates someone to fight for a cause. Engendered as easily by a personal sense of lack as it is by abundance, passion is seen as something that once roused can have a terrible life-force of its own. Recorded over six years, this intimate portrait explores how Patty and Deb found what it was they were looking for.

Featuring:
Patty Mark, Debra Tranter and their families; The Action Animal Rescue Team; Constable D. Ford of the Victorian Police; and Peter Barber of the RSPCA.

Credits:
Producer: Kyla Brettle
Executive Producer: Tony MacGregor
Final Audio Mix: Richard Girvan at ABC Southbank Studios, Melbourne, Australia.

Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, Radio Eye.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER incorporates materials from THE PECKING ORDER, a television documentary commissioned by ABC Television, financed by the Film Finance Corporation, produced by Cristina Pozzan of Buona Notte Film Productions and co-directed by Kyla Brettle and Greg Spiller.

The programme is dedicated to the memory of Marjorie Julienne Huntley

Photograph by Greg Spiller

BIRDS OF A FEATHER was Highly Commended at the Moving Portraits Documentary Awards, 2004