Jimmy Barnes doco to premiere at Melbourne International Film Fest
Working Class Man will debut at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 21 before its airing on Seven towards the end of the year.
The film, which was announced at MIFF's official program launch on Thursday night, was many years in development but not so many months in production.
'We always wanted to do a second one,' says director Andrew Farrell, who was executive producer on the first. 'It was just when was the time going to be right?'
Hectic schedules for Barnes and his musical clan finally presented a brief opening late last year for a week of interviews and recordings of acoustic versions of some of his biggest hits, solo and with Cold Chisel.
The experience for 69-year-old Barnes was painful. Not because he was trawling the emotional wreckage yet again, but because his body was falling apart.
'When we interviewed him, he was about to go in and get his hip replaced, so he's hobbling around,' Farrell recalls. 'He'd just come off tour, he'd had to be strapped up by a physio before he could walk on stage each night, and even sitting down on the couch talking to us, he had to get up and have a bit of a ripple. And then he went straight into surgery the next week.'
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