Inside the Firestorm

Inside the Firestorm is a 2010 documentary film written and directed by Jacob Hickey. It was a look back at the Black Saturday bushfires. Hickey interviewed eight families who survived and told their stories through the interviews, file footage and survivors own footage. It also explored the factors that lead severity of the blazes. It aired on the ABC on the first anniversary of the fires.^[1][2][3]

Inside the Firestorm
Directed by	Jacob Hickey
Written by	Jacob Hickey
Produced by	Alex West Lucy Maclaren
Narrated by	Hugo Weaving
Cinematography	Alan Cole Jaems Grant Simon Ozolins Peter Zakharov
Edited by	Steven Robinson
Release date	2010 (2010)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

Awards

• 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards^[4]
  • Best Direction in a Documentary - Jacob Hickey - won^[5]
  • Best Editing in a Documentary - Steven Robinson - won^[5]
  • Best Sound in a Documentary - Tristan Meredith, Jock Healy, A.J. Bradford - won^[5]
  • Best Feature Length Documentary - Lucy Maclaren and Alex West - nominated^[6]