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KEEP YOUR GIN UP – DOCUMENTARY Sally is a clown, Amanda is a nurse, and they are fierce friends bound together by the awful, shared experience of caring for a child who is very sick. They both understand living with perpetual grief, battling against bureaucracy and having to pre-pay your child’s funeral. Realising the value of their friendship, Sally and Amanda start a podcast where they share their friendship with the world – having honest and raw conversations about the daily struggles of being a carer, plentiful gin sampling and finding a laugh in the face of darkness.

KEEP YOUR GIN UP

KEEP YOUR GIN UP – DOCUMENTARY 17:10 minutes

Director/Producer:  Rebecca Thompson

Synopsis

Sally is a clown, Amanda is a nurse, and they are fierce friends bound together by the awful, shared experience of caring for a child who is very sick. They both understand living with perpetual grief, battling against bureaucracy and having to pre-pay your child’s funeral. Realising the value of their friendship, Sally and Amanda start a podcast where they share their friendship with the world – having honest and raw conversations about the daily struggles of being a carer, plentiful gin sampling and finding a laugh in the face of darkness. 

Themes

  • Caring for others
  • Journeys for very sick children
  • Isolation of carers
  • Value of community, friendship and comedy to help deal with hard situations
  • Duty of care for the medical community around diagnosis
  • Importance of ‘normal’ activities for sick kids

Discussion questions

  • How do Amanda and Sally help others in their lives?
  • What are the methods Amanda and Sally use to cope?
  • How important is it to look after the carer as well as the person being cared for??
  • Ways to make life better for those with terminal illnesses?
  • What does the medical community do to make life harder for these mothers?
  • How does comedy work to help Amanda and Sally?

Alice Webb

Alice Webb is a passionate advocate for diversity, inclusion, and social justice, bringing over 18 years of leadership experience to her role as CEO of A Fairer World. With a background in education, disability advocacy, and organisational leadership, Alice is dedicated to empowering individuals and organisations to create meaningful change. She holds a Master’s in Education and a Master’s in Business Administration, equipping her with both the strategic insight and educational expertise to drive impactful change. Alice is a skilled facilitator in unconscious bias training, diversity and inclusion programs, and workplace cultural change initiatives. Under her leadership, A Fairer World delivers innovative programs like the Hobart Human Library, where real-life storytellers share lived experiences of bias and discrimination to foster empathy and challenge assumptions. Committed to creating inclusive spaces, Alice believes that awareness leads to action and that education is the key to breaking down barriers. Her engaging training style, combined with real-world case studies and interactive discussions, makes her an inspiring leader in the fight for a fairer, more equitable society.