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Friday 4 March 2016
ISSUE 33
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IMAGE: Forbes film maker Dane Millerd will produce a movie based on Australia’s worst female criminal. Photo: Joshua Matic.
Former Journalist Goes to Hollywood Forbes filmmaker Dane Millerd has realised his dream of making the big time in film, with his film about Australia’s worst female criminal to enter Hollywood. In 2001 Katherine Knight became the first female in Australian history to be locked up “never to be released”. Her crime involved stabbing her partner at the time, John Price, 37 times in a horrific murder. Ms Knight then beheaded her victim, skinned his body and cooked it. She had planned to serve him up to her own children with vegetables and gravy, before she became comatose from an overdose of pills she had taken. Police arrived on the scene before her
meal could be served. She is serving her sentence at Sydney’s Silverwater Women’s Correctional Facility, and had an appeal for parole turned down in court a number of years after her sentencing. Mr Millerd managed to obtain the rights to a book about Katherine Knight’s shocking crime last year, and wrote a script for the film. US-based film company ‘Shoreline Entertainment’ picked up the script, and it was fast to contact Mr Millerd to express interest in making his film. He will take the reigns of producer of the film while Shoreline Entertainment set most of its direction. Continued on page 2
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