Baxter and Me

In this charming documentary director Gillian Leahy combines her two great passions dogs and film She openly reveals her life story through a canine prism lovers may come and go but there are always the dogs Leahy also weaves in her filmmaking career starting out at the Womens Film Workshop in 1970s Sydney and the newly formed AFTRS Dogs have carried her through childhood illness and heartbreak in return she lavishes care and frets over their waywardness Today she shares her life with a big brown Labrador called Baxter There are echoes of Leahys awardwinning My Life Without Steve a study in love and loss in this meditative and romantic film