GREEN: The Fight for Rock and Roll documentary announced

Wayne Green and the Phantoms.

A new documentary about the life of highly-regarded and much-loved Perth musician Wayne Green has been announced.

In what will be the feature film debut for writer and director Luke Griffiths, GREEN: The Fight for Rock and Roll will look back on an incredible era of music as told by Green himself. The story will also focus on Green’s raucous life as a leading member of Wayne Green and the Phantoms – a wild, irreverent, loud as buggery and sharp witted outfit which formed in 1979.

Green will share a reflective, warts and all story throughout the new film which will also celebrate a bygone era of rock ‘n’ roll in Perth.

“Wayne Green knows all about rock, having lived and breathed it for over forty years,” Griffiths tells Cinema Australia.

“It has taken him around the world, to the highest highs and the lowest, booze-soaked lows. I can’t wait for audiences to hear the now 70-year-old’s stories as he reflects upon his hard rocking days as he looks to the future and prepares for one last fight for rock ‘n’ roll.”

Griffiths has two short film credits to his name, the 2015 action thriller The Scarlett Sapphire, and Murals which won best short film at the Oniros Film Awards in 2019.

GREEN: The Fight for Rock and Roll will be a co-production between Griffiths’ Man with Rock Productions, and HALO Films who will also distribute the film.

“Music and film go hand in hand, so we are excited and proud to announce Green: The Fight for Rock and Roll as our first co-production and to pay homage to not just Wayne Green, but also to an era of music now gone,” says Ian Hale, managing director of HALO Films.

Hale will also serve as Executive Producer on the film, while Suzanne Worner and Susie Conte (Parkerville Amphitheatre: Sets, Bugs and Rock n Roll) will produce.

GREEN: The Fight for Rock and Roll is eyeing an 2023 release date.