Filmmaker Jay Richards will be at next week’s United in Compassion (UIC) 2025 Australian Medicinal Cannabis Symposium shooting footage for forthcoming documentary In Plain Sight.
Richards said the project, which is backed by UIC co-founder Lucy Haslam, has been “slowly taking shape” with interviews conducted last year being used to create a trailer and UIC presenting an opportunity to broaden the narrative.
“The storyline is vast, there are many jigsaw pieces we still need to film to present a relevant, complete picture that all Australians can understand, learn from, and be entertained by,” he said.
“As a filmmaker, it’s a privilege to be telling this story.”
Haslam has launched a fundraising campaign and called on the industry to help finance the documentary, whose tagline reads “The next big breakthrough in medicinal cannabis could be a movie!”
The aim is to raise A$200,000 and release it this year.
Richards added: “I’m grateful to the doctors, professors, researchers and patients who have taken their time to contribute truth and experience to the telling of In Plain Sight so far. I look forward to meeting, talking and interviewing [more] over the duration of the symposium.”
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