It was understood within our group that we wanted to create a short documentary on a story that creates social awareness and a story that hasn’t been saturated by the media over the past few years. A few of us were oozing with ideas and we managed to narrow it down to a few realistic potentials: a male escort service owned by two women, a psychologist who specialises in getting people out of cults, and an LGBTI elders dance club that occurs every month in the Fitzroy club.

Unfortunately, the two women who owned the male escort service were in the middle of selling their business and the psychologist is currently living interstate. We therefore decided to focus our short doco on the LGBTI dance club as it’s based in Melbourne and our subjects agreed to an interview within the next few weeks.

Everything went smoothly with the proposal and we were confident in wanting to pursue what we assumed didn’t have much media coverage yet. Rohan commended us for our detailed pitch, however, he dropped the bombshell that this story is about to become a feature film. It didn’t necessarily mean that we weren’t allowed to document this story, but it did limit us to only showcase it on an academic level rather than what we aim to be a story on a film festival calibre.

Rohan encouraged us to pursue any other people who are part of the All the Queen’s Men organisation and tell their story in association with the monthly dance club and the coming out ball. We do have a few leads to those who are active in the organisation and hopefully they can accommodate with our schedule.