It’s got Australian speedway legends, a road trip and it’s hot off the track.
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Hard Enough: A Speedway Family will premier in Warrnambool this weekend to coincide with the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic.
The advanced movie screenings will be on Saturday and Sunday from 2pm at Warrnambool’s Capitol Cinema.
Director James Cameron has just flown from Germany to be at the special movie event.
He said he had filmed at Warrnambool twice for the documentary.
“There are lots of locals from Warrnambool in it,” he said.
The film tells the story of Mr Cameron and his father Gil who was a sprintcar driver.
They travel around South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales meeting Gil’s speedway-legend friends.
Mr Cameron, who decided not to become a speedway driver like his dad, said the experience gave him an insight in to his father’s world.
Incidentally, Gil broke his back in Warrnambool in the 1980s.
Mr Cameron said his father was at Warrnambool Base Hospital after the incident and made a surprise recovery.
“He jumped back in his car,” he said.
“It demonstrated his passion for speedway and the passion that everyone has for the sport.”
Mr Cameron said that family was important to the speedway community and it was a key theme of the documentary.
The film also features interviews with many important figures in Australian Sprintcar history.
This is Mr Cameron’s second film and he worked on it with award-winning Italian filmmaker Mario Bucci.
The documentary was finished earlier this month just in time for the Sprintcar Classic.
Mr Cameron grew up in South Australia at One Tree Hill but has been based in Berlin for the past 12 years.
He and some special guests will be at the Capitol Cinema to introduce the movie which runs for 80 minutes.
