Director Michael Wilkins
Score 4/6

What happens when you destroy a war memorial and what do you put in its place?
These questions faced Arts Officer, Colin James, and Project Manager and Artist, Amanda Gibson as they looked for ways to replace the much-loved Greensborough War Memorial statues, which had stood for 14 years in a local park.

Right off the bat I have to say that this is the shortest documentary I have watched for the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival so far. I would also like to say I felt that the way that Homefront started seemed to be very abrupt and I felt that I was thrown off the deep end without much explanation about the previous war memorial. Having never been to Greensborough in Melbourne I’m still wondering what the previous war memorial looked like.
The behind the scenes of the project for the War Memorial Statues was interesting seeing the veterans involved with the project where encouraged to write so that their stories could be gathered up and serve as inspiration for the statues. I enjoyed the footage of the artists involved with crafting the statues of the war memorial at work, it was very interesting to see forged piece of metal being used with wooden statues without setting the statues on fire. The stories behind the creation of the individual statues of the War Memorial where extremely interesting particularly the statue of the lighthorseman.