Film Script Reading: Almost Human, The Movie (Fundraiser) LOCATION DATE A multi-cast reading of Almost Human, the feature film script developed in collaboration with Melbourne film maker Angelo Salamanca is now ready to go into early stages of pre-production. Almost Human tells the story of the life of maverick émigré photographer, feminist pioneer and colourful personality, Maggie Diaz who arrived in Melbourne aboard the maiden voyage of The Royal Canberra in 1961. It was a one-way ticket, a divorce gift from her Australian husband and the last time she would ever see America. This ninety-minute production encompasses her life’s work and journey through key events, with the anchor of the production held in her vast collection of photographs which span 1950s Chicago to 1990s Melbourne. The story also encapsulates the 30-year friendship with her now curator, Gwendolen De Lacy, which led to the telling of the story. In the form of a slideshow set ‘in the now’, Diaz is asked about decisions she made – children given up for adoption, how her work saved her sanity and indeed her life and what she thought about living mostly hand to mouth as an artist on the edge of society.