AJAX doco full of heart, sweat and soul
AJAX’s mission to preserve its history has become a feature documentary screening at JIFF.
It began with the simple aim of capturing stories before they were lost forever.
In 2019, volunteers from the AJAX Football Club community started recording interviews with significant members, conscious that many from the club’s earliest decades were now elderly.
The project then took on a life of its own, developing into a feature documentary called Who Are We, which will be screened throughout the upcoming 2026 Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) in Melbourne, and an additional screening in Sydney.
“We thought, let’s just keep going with it,” AJAX vice-president Craig Joel – the driving force behind it – told The AJN.
He said that about 100 interviews were recorded, with players who took part in the Jewish club’s first Australian Rules football game in 1957, to today’s generation of “Jackas” players.
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