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A few good men By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
Filmmaker Sophie Wiesner will be working with Casey local and trained counsellor, Dave Nugent, to make a documentary exploring the positive influence of men's behavioural change groups. 126046 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
guard and lost my cool, I publicly lost my cool. “I went to the party and made a fool of myself, I got a bit of steel pipe out of my work truck and started smashing up the car in front of a lot of people
and children and I realised when I saw the looks on those kids’ faces that I’d really scared these guys.” Ms Wiesner’s documentary, to be aired in the second half of 2015, is currently in pre-production.
She and Dave are now calling on men who desire to change their behaviour to take part in the Heavy METAL program and allow their journey to be filmed. Continued page 8 1127041-LB13-14
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MEN looking to change their behaviour towards their family and friends are being encouraged to take part in an ABC documentary which will focus on the positive influence of a Casey-based men’s group. The Heavy METAL (Men’s Education Towards Anger and Life) group, based in Narre Warren, will be a primary focus of next year’s documentary as independent filmmaker, Sophie Wiesner, films and collates the progress of the participants as they embark on a life-changing journey. “There was violence in my mum’s family when she was growing up and I’ve grown up around the stories of that,” Ms Wiesner said. “I was working in documentary television and went to Australian Film Television Radio School and gathered skills over the years and decided I wanted to work on a project that meant something to me and that I thought would potentially help others.” “We talked with a number of organisations in Victoria but Dave’s was one that I was drawn to for a couple of reasons. One is Dave’s story, he isn’t just professionally trained in this area, he’s lived some of the challenges that these families go through. “That was really powerful to me and I thought it could be very powerful for everybody else.” Dave Nugent, who started up Heavy METAL in 2004, is a trained counsellor and psychotherapist who specialises in men’s behavioural change programs. It was 20 years ago when Dave, 53, realised he had to change. “I used to think I was a top bloke. I didn’t realise I was as bad as what I was,” Dave said. “Then one particular day, I was in my early thirties. My partner and I were invited to a family function and we had a disagreement before the func-