
Wild Dog Hunting in Australia
Tom Varney spent his early life as a criminal before a conversion to Christianity redirected him toward what he now calls his calling: culling wild dogs across the Australian outback. The film follows him on hunts, tracking packs that prey on livestock and threaten rural farming communities, while he talks through the mechanics of the job, the rifles, the terrain, and the toll dingo and wild dog attacks take on sheep and cattle stations. Interviews with Varney trace the line from his violent past to his present work, framing the killing of animals as an odd extension of the redemption he found. The camera stays close to the practical reality of pest control in remote Australia rather than romanticizing it, showing carcasses, traps, and the physical grind of tracking dogs across scrubland. It is a small, specific portrait of one man's unlikely second act, built around the tension between his stated faith and the violence still central to his daily work.