In Australia’s towns and cities, people are in rental stress*. Families, professionals, essential workers, students and creatives – millions of people – being forced from the hearts of our urban centres, denied a chance at community, and increasingly held back from living ‘sustainable’ lifestyles. So – what are we going to do?
This satirical, solutions-led impact documentary spends time with essential workers, artists, young families and students who all have one thing in common – they rent! Unable to access what we’ve been told is the ‘Australian dream,’ they make up a third of households in Australian, are a growing cohort, and are a key to a sense of community. In its hybridized, comedy meets documentary style, this film follows the threads of their stories while
simultaneously allowing our host, satirist and renter Mark Humphries, space to dive into the system that got Australia here, while digging out the solutions to these problems.
With an associated impact campaign highlighting solutions to one of the wicked problems of our time, The Renters aims to entertain, inform and activate.
With a team of award-winning journalists, doco makers, comedians and, ahem, *renters* behind it (Mark Humphries and Evan Williams (ABC, SBS), Bill Code (Al Jazeera, The Guardian), Craig Reucassel (War on Waste, The Chaser) Ange McCormack (The Monthly, JJJ), Justine Moyle (Tall Poppy), The Renters will either make you laugh, cry, or demand change. It might make you do all three!