In 1990-91 I resigned from my job to write the story that I had to write. It took nearly 30 years to finish. The book, titled WE WERE NOT MEN, will be published by Fourth Estate in June 2021. This video was created in the middle of 2020, pre-publication, when I was wrung out, worn down and raw. It’s not a story of redemption. It’s about stupid stubborn rock-like hope.
It won Best Regional Short Film at the St Kilda Film Festival 2020.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
