Clyde & Co Film Screening

Across the last few months Clyde & Co have been screening the film Past Continuous with a Q&A with the starring couple Oscar Shub and Dr Ilan Buchman. The documentary was made by award-winning documentary filmmaker Kineret Hay-Gillor. It features the now-famous nuptials of Oscar Shub and Dr Ilan Buchman, who were married at Emmanuel Synagogue in Woollahra in 2018. Ilan and Oscar were the first same-sex couple to be legally married in a religious ceremony after the country legalised same-sex marriage. Kineret videoed their wedding and was inspired to make a film about their life story. In collaboration with LINK, the insurance sector LGBT+ network, the event was an incredible success in the London Clyde & Co office.

Oscar is one of the founding partners of Clyde & Co’s Australian operation, having joined from one of Australia’s leading law firms. Oscar emigrated from South Africa to Australia in 1986, having formerly headed up the insurance and reinsurance practice of one of South Africa’s leading law firms. Oscar has been involved in many of the country’s leading pieces of litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Prior to coming to Sydney, Ilan worked as a senior child protection officer with the West Australian Department of Children and Families. In Sydney, he joined JewishCare as the Senior Manager of child and family services and remained in that position for 20 years. For the past 5 years, Ilan has been the Official Visitor to Long Bay Prison Hospital and is responsible for regularly inspecting the facility and providing bi-annual reports to the Minister, Inspector of Custodial Services and the Commissioner of Corrective Services.

Their journey of being two openly gay men married to each other was a long one, filled with obstacles, discrimination and migration. But it is also a love story of resilience

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