Curtis Levy is an independent documentary filmmaker of political and humanitarian stories. His films have been numerous and internationally awarded, they include: The President versus David Hicks, about the Australian Taliban fighter David Hicks (AFI Award for Best Documentary Film and Logie for Best Documentary Film), and Hephzibah, a biography of the social activist and concert pianist who inspired his career (Silver Wolf Award for Best Video Documentary at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, AFI Award for Best Documentary Film, and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Documentary Film). Levy has made many films in Indonesia including High Noon in Jakarta, an intimate portrait of Abdurrachman Wahid, the first democratically elected president of Indonesia. His film Breakout, about the mass suicidal breakout of Japanese prisoners-of-war from their camp in Cowra in New South Wales, won the Award for Best Television Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival. In The Matilda Candidate (2009), Curtis Levy stood for election to the Australian parliament. In Sons of Namatjira (1975) Levy followed Keith Namatjira, son of Albert, and his wider family in their interactions with white tourists and art galleries from their camp in Alice Springs, Central Australia.

Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-81) was a celebrated concert pianist, linguist, and social activist. She was born in San Francisco, California, May 20, 1920, to Hebrew teachers Moshe and Marutha Menuhin, who home-schooled their three children, developing prodigious musical and linguistic abilities in all three. Her elder brother, Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999), became a world-famous violinist in his youth. Like Yehudi, Hephzibah debuted at 8 years old. Despite possessing talent that exceeded her brother's, her parents resisted critical pressure to allow her a solo career and instead, encouraged her to marry young and well. The Menuhins moved throughout Europe, developing Yehudi's career while Hephzibah accompanied him on piano. Hephzibah developed fluency in Russian, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English. In 1933, Hephzibah and Yehudi won the Candide Prize for the best recording made in France and they began to tour internationally together. In 1938, the three Menuhin siblings married; Hephzibah, aged 18, proposed to Lindsay Nicholas, heir to the Aspro fortune, and Yehudi proposed to Lindsay's sister, Nola Nicholas. Hephzibah spent The Second World War with Lindsay on his sheep station, Terinallum, in outback Victoria. Here, Hephzibah had two children: Kronrod and Marston Nicholas and fostered a number of war orphans. While in Australia, she played locally and founded a travelling library to improve access to education in the outback. When she commenced touring in Europe again, a trip to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1947 altered the trajectory of her life. From this point forward, she turned her attention to humanitarian causes and left-wing politics. In 1955, Hephzibah divorced Lindsay and married Viennese sociologist, Richard Hauser. When she left for London with him in 1957, she left her Australian children behind. In London, Hephzibah and Richard Hauser established the Institute for Human Rights and Responsibilities and The Centre for Group Studies, which was essentially a refuge for desperate and marginalised residents of Bethnal Green, in London's East End. Hephzibah was active in peace negotiations in Northern Ireland and involved in the peace movement in India. In 1977-81 she served as British president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She and Richard had a daughter, Clara Menuhin-Hauser and fostered a son, Michael Alexander Morgan. Hephzibah Menuhin died in London in 1981 from throat cancer.