Strikebound is the dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1937, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra.
[1][2] Richard Lowenstein had made a short film, Evictions, about unemployed Australian people during the Depression, but felt slightly unsatisfied by the experience and wanted to have another attempt at the subject matter.
During the making of the short film he had met Wattie and Agnes Doig and heard stories about unionism in coal mining in Victoria.
[citation needed] The film was co-produced by Victorian filmmaker Miranda Bain[a] and New Zealand producer Timothy White.
[3] In Australia, film won the AFI Award for Best Achievement in Production Design (Tracy Watt, Harry Zettel, McGregor Knox, and Neil Angwin).