Despite being tall, very athletic, and once handsome; despite having on-the-job training as an accused foreign spy who was thrown into a squalid Cambodian jail, Australian independent journalist and filmmaker James Ricketson has no desire to apply to be the next James Bond.
However as one of Australia’s most talented original new wave filmmakers of the 1970s and 80s, Ricketson can both act and direct, and has won numerous overseas and Australian film festival prizes.
His films are shown all over the world.
In full: https://www.echo.net.au/2019/05/jailed-journo-james-ricketson-speaks-may-29-30/
