When I started making these films as a young father back in the 1970’s and 80’s, I designed my work to be presented with no narration or any blatant subjectivity that would skew the film’s point of view. It would be just a straight up ‘let them tell their story’ approach. This was done to provide primary ‘original’ source documentation of a people – in a place and time. My only bias was, and is, I love my country and I wanted to commit to giving credit where credit was due. The very things that these lovely films and videos capture – the hard-fought, hard-won values, beliefs and responsibilities that intuitively come from living in the world’s greatest, constitutional, liberal democracy – urgently need to be rekindled.

We won’t be able to save the Earth without investing in our natural capital.

We won’t be able to save ourselves without supporting and voting for a richly diverse and inclusive democracy.

Please enjoy this reaffirming look back to the way we were, and then imagine, and work, and vote, (if that’s still available to you), for what we can yet become, moving forward.

Peter R Griesinger
Producer/Director
February 2026