Prostate Cancer: From Crisis to Cure

Rural vs. Urban. Men in rural areas often have less access to specialised care than those in urban centres. Should a man’s life expectancy be determined by his distance from a capital city?
Ageism. Why are men over 70 routinely denied access to the life-saving PSA blood test?
Wealth Gap. While breakthrough treatments offer spectacular outcomes for some, these can be locked behind a paywall, adding another trauma to a diagnosis.
Mental Health Crisis. Without a mental health plan, men can lose hope and spiral into life-threatening depression.
Genetic Disadvantage. African men are more likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer at a younger age.
The Lady. Prostate cancer has been labelled a ‘couples’ disease — yet women, as wives, partners, mothers, and daughters, are often forgotten.
National Screening Program. Despite a simple ‘early warning’ blood test, Australia has no national screening program akin to those for breast, bowel, cervical, and lung cancer.

To use storytelling to shift how the world understands and responds to prostate cancer by moving it from a silent, late-detected disease to one identified early and treated effectively and fairly for ALL Australians. Through a lived experience, presenter-led documentary, we aim to raise awareness, influence behaviour, and drive systemic change in screening, funding, and public conversation.
By connecting audiences emotionally with real stories and cutting-edge science, we seek to empower men and their families to act sooner, support each other, and demand better outcomes. Our vision is measurable impact: earlier diagnoses, world-leading and improved survival rates, and a global audience better informed, less fearful, and more proactive about men’s health.

What we hope to achieve with this documentary is to bring to the national consciousness that far too many men and their families are enduring the trauma of a late-stage prostate cancer diagnosis. Without a national screening program and an awareness campaign, we will continue to lose nearly 4,000 men each year to a disease that, in so many cases, should never have reached this point.

We will also focus on the cost of this disease to the Australian taxpayer. In large part due to late diagnosis, prostate cancer is Australia’s most expensive cancer, accounting for 15% of the entire cancer budget. With an ageing population and cases set to double by 2040, there is no logical case for the continued absence of a national screening program — as has been clearly demonstrated by the success of screening programs for breast, bowel, cervical, and lung cancer.

We have developed this documentary in parallel with conversations with Australia’s pre-eminent prostate cancer foundation, the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA).
We have had discussions with Movember and have requested an interview with one of the organisation’s Founders to discuss their 23-year history of raising awareness of prostate cancer and men’s health.
We have been given permission to film at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, a world-leading cancer institution that is at the forefront of prostate cancer diagnostics and treatment research.
Beyond prostate cancer surgeons and scientists, we will also be interviewing experts in sexual health and exercise physiology — both of which play a critical role in prostate cancer recovery.
As prostate cancer survivors, the Director and the Producer bring genuine lived experience to the story

For men over 40 with a family history of prostate cancer — speak to your doctor about PSA testing.
For all men over 50 — speak to your doctor about PSA testing.
For all doctors — discuss prostate cancer with all male patients over 40.
For government — enact a national screening and awareness program.
For all Australians — support men with prostate cancer with the same vigour that was deservedly brought to the breast cancer cause