Thomas Tancred, director of the new Max documentary Last Stop Larrimah, discusses the film’s novel premise and surprising depth of emotion.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Last Stop Larrimah is a documentary about an 11-person Australian town and a mysterious disappearance that shakes its residents to the core. It’s funny, quirky, heartbreaking, and fascinating all at once; as much as it’s a film about a disappearance, it’s also an exploration of how relationships grow, change, and fall apart over time.
What I wanted to start off with was that I saw that you started your career in reality TV, which famously pokes and prods people to get the right story. Was there anything about that experience that you either used or avoided in making a doc? The weird thing about unscripted at times is that for people who work in that world, their job is to create drama. They go to these locations, these settings, and it's like, "How do we get these people?" I don't want to talk too disparagingly about that world, but I do feel like that starts to become part of making these shows, too, because when you're creating drama all the time, then people start creating it behind the scenes too.
That's what I was going to ask about; the murder is the hook of the film, but the thing that was even more impactful to me was the rise and fall of the town and what's happened to everyone. You see that old footage where everyone's having such a great time, and then you see it all just fall apart.
This was a story that, again, I found on Twitter, and I just slowly started digging in a bit more. There's a podcast, and then I would start talking to reporters about it. This is about seven months of research, and during that time I'm pulling clips from the internet and creating a sizzle reel in hopes that the sizzle reel will then get me funding to go to Australia.
Thomas Tancred: That was a hectic moment because that was a lot of planning. We didn't put it in the film, but I was with Fran in Melbourne, and then I had a crew up in the Northern Territory in the court, and there were going to be two days of deliberation, or--I don't know what you call it--something going on there. I was like, "Okay, I need to be with Fran in case anything happens with her, and I should know after day one if something happens.
Did you have an interview that was the most frustrating? The most frustrating one to watch, for me, was the attorney, but I'm curious about your side of things.
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