The Family (2016)
Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.
Director: Rosie Jones
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Jordan Fraser-Trumble as Detective Lex De Man (young) |
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Anne Hamilton-Byrne as Herself (archive footage) |
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Bill Hamilton-Byrne as Himself (archive footage) |
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Lex De Man as Himself (interview) |
| Directing | Rosie Jones | Director |
| Sound | Livia Ruzic | Sound Designer |
| Production | Anna Grieve | Producer |
| Camera | Jaems Grant | Director of Photography |
| Production | Anna Grieve | Production Manager |
| Editing | Jane Usher | Editor |
| Sound | Keith Thomas | Sound Designer |
| Production | Barbara Ghammashi | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Rosie Jones | Writer |
| Editing | Lex De Man | Consulting Editor |
| Sound | Mark Tarpey | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Aida Innocente | Production Manager |
| Production | Rosie Jones | Co-Producer |
