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<p class="font_7">When drag queens first frocked up to the North Ipswich Bowls Club almost nine years ago, the struggling bowlsie was on the brink of closure.</p>
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<p class="font_7">But thanks largely to the spectacular success of Taboo – a monthly drag show – the club’s kept rolling on.</p>
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<p class="font_7">Now that the queens have helped rescue the club, the next chapter to this charming, inspiring story centres on three drag performers – Crystal Heart, wanda dparke, and 12-year-old Candy Featherbottom - who are now having to save themselves, their careers and their dreams.</p>

<p class="font_7">When drag queens first frocked up to the North Ipswich Bowls Club almost nine years ago, the struggling bowlsie was on the brink of closure.</p>
<p class="font_7"><br></p>
<p class="font_7">But thanks largely to the spectacular success of Taboo – a monthly drag show – the club’s kept rolling on.</p>
<p class="font_7"><br></p>
<p class="font_7">Now that the queens have helped rescue the club, the next chapter to this charming, inspiring story centres on three drag performers – Crystal Heart, wanda dparke, and 12-year-old Candy Featherbottom - who are now having to save themselves, their careers and their dreams.</p>

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Run time: 90 Minutes

Distributed by: SBS Australia


Director: Mandy Lake

Editor: Clark Kent

Sound: Bruce Wayne

Lighting: Diana Prince

Set around a monthly drag show in an Ipswich lawn bowls club, Bowled Over: The Dragumentary follows three fabulous drag queens as they confront some major personal challenges over the course of a very frocky year.

Roma-based, retired cattleman, Dexter Kruger, is old.


Very, very old.


So old, in fact, that he was four when World War 1 broke out, he’s seen about 20 Prime Ministers come and go, and he’s currently in the record books as the second oldest ever Aussie bloke.


What’s more, at the time of writing, he’s the second oldest living Australian, and the 16th oldest living man in the world.


The last time we saw Dexter on ABC’s Compass - in ‘The 100+ Club’ documentary eight years ago - he was busy finishing off his 7th book, with the help of his faithful “decipherer”, Bob.


Little did we imagine back then while we were capturing Dexter riding a quad bike on his grandson’s property, cracking whips, and jokes, that he would not only still be ‘with us’ in 2020, but also filming for the sequel – ‘The 110+ Club’!


Yes, at 110 years of age, Dexter’s not only very much alive and kicking, but he’s also as sharp-witted, fully focussed, and goal oriented as ever!


And, as we’ll see in this half hour documentary - which has been shot over the bumpy course of his 111th year - the supercentenarian still has a few outstanding items to tick off his bucket list.


For starters, he’s absolutely determined to blow out the candles on his 111th birthday cake on 13 January, 2021.


The world’s oldest living author is also ardently working on his 13th and final book - which he describes as “a collection of all the little and big things that I’ve seen and heard through my long life”.


“It’s a story of success,” Dexter says. “For I’ve defeated everything put before me.”


What’s even more impressive is that he’s aiming to release it on the very day he’ll become Australia’s oldest ever man – 17 May, 2021.


Those who know Dexter have no doubt that his sheer mindpower and tenacity could help carry him to that seemingly ambitious deadline; but, sadly, it’s his body that may ultimately let him down - his organs are now starting to shut down.


‘The 110+ Club’ won’t only be a heart-warming, inspiring story about the incredible strength of the human spirit, it’ll also be a powerful exploration of friendship and faith, thanks to another storyline and character we’ll see at play.


Make no mistake, the writing is keeping Dexter going, but he also arguably wouldn’t be alive today were it not for his “adoptive grand-daughter” and self-described “secretary”, Janet Rowling.


Janet stepped up to the plate with her laptop, as Dexter’s decipherer, following Bob’s eventual departure from Roma four years ago, and she’s since been visiting the near-blind author three times a week to help put his stories onto ‘paper’, as well as update his social media (he’s a huge fan of Facebook).


A devout member of Roma’s Life Christian Church, the 56-year-old mum of two firmly believes “God sent me to work with Dexter” and has been fervently “praying for his soul” since his surprising revelation to her that he – a regular church-goer - doesn’t believe in the bible and “God is but three letters on a piece of paper”.


Needless to say, these unlikely friends have had some very spirited conversations about religion over the years and Janet’s now on her own personal quest to save her beloved friend from “eternal hell” but, as we’ll see, the mutual respect they have for each other’s belief systems is simply beautiful to behold.


There’s more than 110 reasons that this moving film will resonate with Compass’s audience - not least of which is its unprecedented access to a remarkable supercentenarian who still has a very active storyline and is very much chasing dreams.


And, just in case you were wondering, here’s Dexter’s tips to longevity:


No smoking.

No alcohol.

No floosies.

And always remember: Procrastination is the thief of time!

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