Parer's War is a 2014 television film about Damien Parer, the Australian war photographer whose Second World War documentary film Kokoda Front Line! documenting the Kokoda Track campaign was the first Australian film to win an Oscar at the 15th Academy Awards.
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Plot
The film opens in 1942 with Parer in Mubo, New Guinea filming Australian troops during the Kokoda Track Campaign and covers the production of Kokoda Front Line!, his relationship with his wife Marie, events leading to his redeployment, and his subsequent death by Japanese gunfire at Palau in September 1944.
Cast
Matthew Le Nevez as Damien Parer
Adelaide Clemens as Marie Cotter
Rob Carlton as Ken G. Hall
Luke Ford as Ronnie Williams
Alexander England as Chester Wilmot
Nicholas Bell as Bob Hawes
Nathaniel Dean as Major George Warfe
Khan Chittenden as Captain Fred 'Doc' Street
T. J. Power as Lieutenant Johnny Lewin
James Ivor as Lieutenant Jock Erskine
Joshua Brennan as Corporal Scotty McMillan
Ian Meadows as Terry Banks
Lindsay Farris as Max Dupain
Toby Wallace as Lieutenant Ron 'Judy' Garland
Kevin MacIsaac as Captain Norm Winning
Marco Chiappi as Lt. General Sydney Rowell
A.J. Garrett as George Weller
Christopher Sommers as Dr. Bill McLean
Alan David Lee as Father English
Production
Director Alister Grierson utilised point-of-view shots centred on Parer's camera throughout the film and shot scenes set in New Guinea on-location at Tamborine Mountain in Queensland.