Film
A Mile With May
About
Director
Beau Miles
Producer
Beau Miles and Mitch Drummond
Running time
11 minutes
Country / Nationality
Australia
Our Judges say:
Uplifting dad and daughter bonding.Jimmy Hyland
It's your favourite mad antipodean from "A Mile an Hour" doing home-based adventures, this time with added baby action. Enormously entertainingPaul Hodgson Music Judge
Such a true adventure Dude, and now with a sidekick!Claire Carter Writer, Film Officer for Kendal Mountain Festival, 'Creative Consultant'.
May and I head off on a slow, tooled-up, distracted lap of the block- which happens to be a perfect mile. Seated within the wide, book and plum filled bucket of a wheelbarrow, May and I check on the trees from A Mile an Hour, do a few nice things for the neighbours (it’s Christmas!), whack weeds, pick up rubbish, pick up sticks, eat plums and generally have a good time. What you might think to be an episode of Beau teaching May is in fact very much a process of May teaching Beau- looking at the world closely, distracted, with immediacy- which is fast becoming his key ingredients of Backyard adventuring.
Sustainability Notes
If there is one thing a parent can give a child, it's practical, realife epereinces that can be copied. Teaching your child that weeds can be dug out, rubbish should be collected when you see it, and that horses are a great waste of money (joking) is what makes the parenting role the most powerful learning process known to humanity.
