Baz Luhrmann - Director

There are some film directors who strip things down, shun artifice and worship at the altar of realism. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Baz Luhrmann, a director who sees filmmaking through a very different lens. He made his directorial name with a wildly entertaining debut movie called Strictly Ballroom, which was theatrical, sentimental and sweet. Since then he has continued to make larger than life films based on epic stories. How did a boy from the Australian backwoods get to make his celluloid dreams come true?