DOCUMENTARIES
Doug Craig, one of WCPs’ founders has won many awards for his shows and his documentaries over the years in Australia.
WCP has four documentaries in different stages of production they are.
The Australian Light Horse
A ninety-minute documentary on the Australian Light Horse and the modern day dedication of those who help perpetuate the memory of this unique regiment. Comprising of modern day footage and historical visuals sourced from the Australian War Memorial and private collections.
Presented by military historian Maj. Don Hampton, (retired) this documentary will be sold to commercial TV, cable etc and is to be donated to every school in Australia and NZ in association with the our sponsors and will be distributed worldwide by Umbrella Entertainment.
Stage: In pre-production stage to be filmed in 2023
The Setting of the Rising Sun
Presented by military historian Maj. Don Hampton, (retired) the documentaries will be shot in New Guinea with material augmented from media libraries and the Australian War Museum to produce a commercial three 60 minute (55 minute non-commercial) documentary, which will act as a flagship for an on-going series of documentaries on similar subjects.
Additional fully electronic interactive e-Book, for sale to all Public, University and school libraries as well as the armed forces networks, along with a DVD for world release.
Stage: In final script and preproduction stage, planned to be filmed in 2023/2024.
Beer the Inspiration of Man
Registered WGA-W
Humans have been around for about 100,000 years. The first 90,000 we achieved absolutely nothing. All human accomplishments have been made in the last ten thousand years; from agriculture, to writing, from mathematics to modern medicine.
So what happened that inspired us into creativity, invention and our modern civilization? The answer is Beer! Beer happened, and it changed the world forever.
I say, “Beer happened” because BEER isn’t the invention of one man, or a group or race of people. Beer was a worldwide phenomenon that happened around ten thousand years ago.
At first it sounded too bizarre to be true, but it seems we’re not the only people who think this way; many anthropologists and archaeologists believe that it was the taste for beer, not bread, that started the agricultural revolution around 8,000Bc.
The first civilization known to exist: Mesopotamia (the land between two rivers). In modern day Iraq, people started growing crops and domesticating animals, to help them do so. In this society the most valuable commodity was Beer. In the parallel development of civilizations such as China and then in Egypt, Beer retained its glorious stature.
The two 60 minute documentaries will be produced in conjunction with the online streaming TV series, it is educational, light entertainment, funny in places but totally factual. It shows how beer helped build the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China, how people drank beer in the morning hot or cold as it was safer than water, how the taxman in the early middle ages in Europe tested the alcohol content to determine the tax not by drinking it but by sitting in it. Pastuerisation was invented for beer not milk as we were told, eventually used for milk 25 years later.
We currently have the full support of the top major beer manufacturers in the world, such as Heineken, Carlsberg, Kirin, AB-Inbev, Asahi, Molson Coors and many other brewers, who are backing us and have allowed us access to their respective histories on the beer they are making so that we can show the development of beer around the world and its impact on man.
So what is the world’s most popular beer? What’s the country that drinks the most per capita? The strongest beer manufactured? To the new micro breweries, and the rise of beer tourism. Discover the manufacturing secrets of this nectar of the gods, the third most consumed liquid on the planet (after water and tea) join us as we explore this wonderful world.
Stage: Both back in pre-production along with the pre-production of the live streaming tv show. Production will commence in 2024.