The award-winning film director Scott Millwood (Wildness) and producer Michael McMahon (The Home Song Stories) began shooting a documentary film about the disappearance of Brenda Hean in Hobart this week. Millwood has himself offered a $100,000 reward for information that solves the mystery of the disappearance.
‘The disappearance of Brenda Hean and her pilot Max Price is one of the great mysteries of Tasmania’, said Millwood.
‘By offering a reward we hope to encourage people to come forward with their accounts. The secrecy that surrounds the question of what happened to these environmental champions is extraordinary. We are determined to uncover the facts and to tell the story of this amazing woman – but we really need the help of the public.’
Brenda Hean was one of the leading environmental campaigners of the early 1970s and a founder of the first environmental political party in the world. Hean was campaigning against the destruction of Lake Pedder by a massive hydro-electric scheme. Just months before the Federal election, she and her pilot took off from Tasmania in a two-seater Tiger Moth bound for Canberra where Hean intended to meet with key Federal Government figures. They planned to sky-write ‘Save Lake Pedder’over Parliament House. However the plane never reached its destination and the battle to save Lake Pedder was lost.