Capturing The Fire 

A photographer risks her life to document the devastating Australian bushfires that burnt her family home to the ground. 

When Louise Coghill saw the first plume of smoke begin to rise behind her parents property, she could never have predicted that in less than four hours, it would become a wall of flames, swallowing everything in its path. A photographer by trade, Louise has travelled the world documenting everything from the nomadic wanderers of Mongolia, to base life at Mount Everest. Capturing the extraordinary comes naturally to Louise, so when her family home in the semi-rural Western Australian town of Gidgegannup became engulfed in flames, her first instinct wasn’t to take shelter, it was to pick up her camera.

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Directed by Frances Elliott & Samantha Marlowe

Written by Frances Elliott & Samantha Marlowe

Produced by F&S FIlms

Director of Cinematography Toby Hoffman

Edited by Oliver Dear

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