Danielle Laidley documentary in final days of filming
Former AFL coach and premiership player Danielle Laidley has given an update on the upcoming documentary on her life.
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Filming is almost complete on the feature documentary about former AFL coach and premiership player Danielle Laidley.
Cameras have been quietly following Laidley for months charting her life as a prominent transgender and diversity advocate.
“The documentary is still filming,” Laidley said.
“We are coming up to our final days of shooting and it should be complete, editing and everything, by May and then it will be handed over to STAN and it will be up to them when they want to air it.”
Laidley was guest speaker at the launch of the Australian Open Pride Day at The Osborne Rooftop in South Yarra on Friday. She will play in the Glam Slam celebrity event on Pride Day, January 27, at Melbourne Park.
She was supported at the launch, which was attended by Moana Hope, Ben and Hester Brown, Changkuoth Jiath, Angie Greene, Simon Lennox, Craig Tiley, Luke Dennehy and Kate Jenkins, by her son Kane and her partner Donna Leckie.
“Kane and a few of his mates have come along and it is very special,” Laidley said.
Laidley, whose memoir Don’t Look Away has been a bestseller, held the room spellbound as she told of her struggle with gender dysphoria while living in the AFL spotlight.
“I feel so privileged to be a small part of it,” she said of Pride Day, “and to create spaces for love and inclusion and diversity, and for people to be able to be themselves.
“That is obviously something that I wrestled with for so many years, but for the Australian Open to be a world leader in this area is something to behold.
“It is about showing the next generation that you can live life without barriers, you can be yourself.”
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