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Media stories
VCA filmmakers win award for Left Write Hook documentary
Dr Shannon Owen and A/Prof Donna Lyon from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) have been awarded the Distinguished Innovation in Creative Arts Award at the 2025 Deans and Directors of Creative Art (DDCA) Awards for their documentary Left Write Hook.
The film that brought a trauma conference to its feet
Kelly Royds, ED of Knowledge Mobilisation and Practice at the Australian Childhood Foundation, reflects on her experiences moderating a Left Write Hook Q&A Screening at the 2025 International Childhood Trauma Conference, encouraging sector professionals to watch the film in community.
Throwing a left and a write hook
Medical Forum magazine speaks to Director Shannon Owen about the making of Left Write Hook.
Vic Statewide Drive - Donna Lyon Interview
ABC Radio, Victorian Statewide Drive , Prue Bentley interview with Donna Lyon (23 April 2025). Listen from 2hrs 10min
Netflix: best new shows.
SCREENhub lists Left Write Hook in its guide to best new shows streaming on Netflix 14 to 20 April 2025.
Left Write Hook now available on Netflix
TV Tonight article about Left Write Hook's Netflix release.
Left Write Hook now streaming on Netflix
The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music website.
SCREENhub - Best new shows streaming
SCREENhub lists Left Write Hook in its guide to the best new shows launching on streamers between 7 to 13 April 2025.
AIDC Awards Jury Statement
AIDC Awards jury statement regarding Left Write Hook, winner, Best Feature Doc Award 2025
Left Write Hook 4 Star Review: Survivor documentary stings like a bee. By Stephen A Russell
Screenhub
Marie Claire Special Report: Survivor Circles.
Marie Claire Australia, Jan 2025 article by Kathryn Madden, featuring Dr Donna Lyon and LWH participant Nikki.
Left Write Hook follows survivors of childhood sexual abuse reclaiming power through boxing
ABC News article by Jared Richards
Powerful abuse survivor documentary to screen in Ballarat
Ballarat Times news article 22 Feb 2025
Left Write Hook: How a boxing and writing programme helps
Radio NZ Kathryn Ryan interviews Donna Lyon on the Nine to Noon program
Releasing trauma from the body through words and punches
Donna Lyon, boxing instructor, trauma survivor and producer of Left Write Hook and Left Write Hook film and program participant Pixie in conversation with Jacinta Parsons on ABC RN Life Matters, 15 Oct 2024.
Left Write Hook, the journey of reclamation
Star News - Berwick / Beaconsfield article about the Left Write Hook film and program by Ethan Benedicto. Featuring Donna Lyon and film and program participant Julie.
Interview with Left Write Hook Director Shannon Owen
Director Owen talks to the 3RRR Breakfasters about the Left Write Hook documentary. 14 October 2024
Celebrating Strength and Resilience: An Interview With Shannon Owen
MIFF Revue
The individual and collective: co-creating social impact to transform trauma
Minderoo Foundation article by Donna Lyon
Left Write Hook - FilmInk Review
FilmInk film review of Left Write Hook by by Lisa Nystrom. "Powerful documentary... insightful and deeply personal …"
The CinefestOZ Podcast - In conversation with the Left Write Hook team
Hosted by Joel Jackson. Featuring director Shannon Owen, producer Donna Lyon and film participant Nikki. A discussion on the journey from program to book to documentary, recorded at Cinefest Oz Film Festival 2024.
Left, Write, Hook…Boxing, Writing, Healing
Dr. Donna Lyon chats to Tiffanee Cook on the Roll With The Punches Podcast, about survivor experiences, recovery, the Left Write Hook Program and the Left Write Hook Film
Left Write Hook to get national cinema release
Screenhub
National theatrical release announced for Shannon Owen’s Left Write Hook!
Cinema Australia
New boxing program helps sexual assault survivors process trauma
ABC Melbourne - Drive
‘People’s lives have been changed’: could boxing help child abuse survivors deal with trauma?
The Guardian
A child abuser taught Nikki to not resist. Boxing helped her confront her trauma
The Sydney Morning Herald
Survival stories: punches and prose unearth the write stuff
MIFF: the power and pain of Left Write Hook
The Burne
‘Left Write Hook’ (Trailer)
if.com.au
Premiere With Purpose - Left Write Hook
Melbourne International Film Festival
Left Write Hook at MIFF 17 - 25 August. Metro & regional screenings.
Melbourne International Film Festival
Adult survivors take back their power in documentary film 'Left Write Hook'
University of Melbourne
