Stunt Love

This story of Australia’s very own J.P ‘Jack’ McGowan plays like a Hollywood script. An epic romance set against the birth of cinema featuring high adventure, war, fame and great love won and lost. J.P was one of Hollywood’s first stunt directors, who with his wife and on-screen daredevil Helen Holmes, paved the way for the action-adventure blockbusters we know today. Long before ‘Brangelina’ it was Jack and Helen who ruled Hollywood’s silver screen. His career holds a mirror up to a time when the movies were growing up, when the language and cinema was being written and when rules didn’t really exist. –Dungog Film Festival