DAY 4 begins with Roberts in his home town of SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA pondering the colonial legacy of Great Britain of his home country. Australia was first settled by white people in 1788 after they invaded the country and effectively initiated an intentional and sustained campaign of genocide on the indigenous peoples.
It’s a shocking history. Roberts decides to journey to London which was once the centre of the great colonial power Great Britain. Flying the famous ‘kangaroo route’ on Qantas QF1 from Sydney to London, he arrives in London on DAY 6 ready to start his pilgrimage to Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days”.
80 DAYS
In “80 DAYS“, starting from his home base of Sydney adventurer and Award winning film maker Paul G Roberts, retraces the global footsteps of Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne’s most famous work, “Around the World in 80 Days”, and this time around Roberts does a deep dive on history, art and culture of the cities he visits, and he captures and records his global adventures for a new 80 Episode TV series.
Making an Award winning film is no small feat. Roberts has no less than 16 Best picture wins from major international Film festivals. Usually it takes a great story, a team of highly skilled artisans. Writers, producers, a great director, editors, actors and usually a pile of money. And even then it takes a decent amount of luck and a lot of dedication for it to realise the promise it had on paper. There are a million things that can derail the project. The degree of difficulty is amplified many times over when it has ambitions to become a series. But for one person to attempt to all of this solo, is for most experts just insanity. In this new 80 episode solo Round the World Series,
Award winning filmmaker and travel lover Paul G Roberts is the writer, director, producer, star, presenter, camera / sound / lighting / drone cam operator. Edited by Angel Lee.
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