Tickets will be available at the cinema box office. Q&A: Following the screening with the director – Jeremy Ervine Peter Short’s wife, Elizabeth. Cassy O’Connor the leader of the Australian Greens in Tasmania
Peter Short is the CEO of Shell Coles Express in Australia, has less than 9 months to live. His death, he learns, will likely be painful and undignified. After talking himself out of a violent suicide, Peter instead decides to take matters into his own hands by trying to source the lethal and illegal drug Nembutal. FADE TO BLACK records this intimate journey where Peter uses his precious remaining months of life to become a passionate advocate for the right for every Australian to be able to die with dignity legally assisted by the medical profession.