Feature Documentary · 90 min
The Abundance Code
A ninety-minute documentary on the journey from scarcity to abundance.
Role · Co-Executive Producer
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Films.
45+ years behind the camera. More than forty documentaries. Three hundred productions. Stories from places few film crews had been, screened in over a hundred countries.
Asaro mud men · Papua New Guinea · Festivals of the World
The Origin
Go where others don't go.
Tell the stories no one else is telling.
At sixteen, I travelled to India with my brother Albert Falzon (filmmaker, maker of Morning of the Earth, 1972, OAM 2023) to make my first documentary film. The operating philosophy was simple from the start: go where others don't go, tell the stories no one else is telling.
Six years later, that philosophy put us in the cab of a broken-down truck high on the Tibetan plateau, in a whiteout, in the dark, on the way to film the Wesak Festival at the foot of Mount Kailash, a peak held sacred by four of the world's great religions.
"We made films about things most film crews never went near. Spiritual festivals. Indigenous ceremonies. Places few film crews had been."
45+ years on, the films number more than forty. Beyond the documentaries: three hundred corporate films, television and radio commercials, and a decade running the Sydney advertising agency CCM Group. The instinct that took two brothers to Tibet hasn't changed.
40+
Documentaries
300+
Productions
100+
Countries broadcast
45+
Years behind the camera
The Two Series
Eighteen episodes, screened internationally.
Series One · 6 × 1hr
Festivals of the Far East
A six-part documentary series for international television exploring the great spiritual festivals of India, China, Sri Lanka, Burma and Tibet.
- 01
Same as it Ever Was
- 02
Before the Jungle Gods
- 03
Jewel in The Himalayas
Tibet
- 04
Colours of Rajasthan
India
- 05
The Kumbha Mela
India
- 06
Moon of The Buddha
Role · Location Sound, Stills Photography, Post-Production Supervision
Series Two · 12 × 30min
Festivals of the World
A twelve-part documentary series for international television about the colour and spectacle of festivals around the world, from Korea to Peru, Morocco to Trinidad, the PNG highlands to the temples of Cambodia.
- 01
Birds of a Feather Carnival Together
- 02
Butterflies & Warriors
- 03
Land of Morning Calm
Korea
- 04
Fiesta Siesta
- 05
From the Heart of Morocco
Morocco
- 06
Song of the Rainbow
- 07
Inti Raymi — The Inca Sun God Festival
Peru
- 08
Island Dreaming
- 09
Festival of Light
- 10
Trinidad Carnival
Trinidad
- 11
Remembrance
- 12
Behind the Mask
Role · Producer
More from the filmography
Selected productions, beyond the Festivals.
Series · 8 × 1hr
In pre-production40 Women
A visually stunning series for international television. Two women travelling to forty fascinating countries, meeting forty extraordinary women, each one having reached the milestone age of forty.
Role · Co-Executive Producer
Series · 13 × 30min
Released · Screened globallyUnder Southern Skies
A visual exploration of Australian flora, from desert to tropical jungle, indigenous foods to early botanical history, environment, farming and the sensitive plant life of the driest continent on earth.
Role · Producer
As Editor
Additional credits.
- 01The Great Invocation
- 02Metaphysical
- 03Quiksilver Country
- 04Globus — The Meaning of Light
From the archive
A life behind the lens.
A selection from forty-something countries. Production stills from a career spent going to the places few cameras had been.
The story continues
From behind the camera, to behind the scenes.
The instinct that put two brothers in a Himalayan whiteout at twenty-two is the same instinct that runs the work today, mentoring the founders, writing the books, and backing the ventures that go where others don't go.