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Pip Starr Pictures

[Pip Starr Pictures] evolved out of [Rockhopper Productions] in 2005. Rockhopper began in 1996 as a collaboration between Bill Runting and Pip Starr. Rockhopper grew out of a series of live to air simulcasts produced by Pip and Bill that were broadcast on Channel 31 and [PBS FM] in Melbourne, Australia.

Pip Starr Pictures, like Rockhopper before it, is dedicated to the production of quality documentaries about important social issues. Pip Starr pictures creates emotionally engaging and aesthetically beautiful films. It's productions are more commited to making documentaries that engage the senses as much as they engage the mind. Almost all productions feature a prominent original score by Melbourne composer, Mark Daniel.

The nuclear industry, and Australians resistance to it, has been a regular topic:

"Cradle to Grave" (22 min), about the proposed expansion of Australia's nuclear industry. (2007) "Fight for Country" (62 min) - the Story of the Jabiluka Blockade, (2000) "Fire ane Water" (26 min) , about the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, (1997) and

Other films include:

"The Okapa Connection", about the production of fair trade organic coffee in Papua new Guinea; (2005) "A Certian Point" the documentartion of a Critical Mass bike ride (1999) "RTS7" about Sydney's biggest ever Reclaim the Streets protest. (2000) "Through the Wire". Which documents a mass escape from the notorious Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. (2002)

Pip Starr Pic's is currently documenting the evacuation of the Carteret Islands, off the coast of Bougainville, PNG.

Coffee Cherrie2s.jpg Coffee Cherries - "The Okapa Connection"

Jacqui yvonne.png Jacqui Katona and Yvonne Margarula launch the Jabiluka Blockade

07-no-borders 1.jpg Protestors gather at the Woomea Detenton centrre.

19-jumping-to-crowd.jpg A Woomera detainee jumps into the crowd