True life crime’s delicate balancing act

November 2, 2009  Filed Under News, 1 Comment » 

In directing A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne, Tony Tilse was mindful of the sensitivity of the story for those who were closest to it. Having directed Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback, The Postcard Bandit and Underbelly, he is well placed to know the legal and emotional minefield of depicting actual events.

“True crime dramas are always both an interesting and tricky affair,” he tells TV Tonight. “The closer you are to an actual event, you have quite a few legal issues to deal with, so that’s always a …