How to Make Gravy: first trailer for film based on Paul Kelly song released

Jonah Wren Phillips as Angus, centre left, and Daniel Henshall as Joe in How to Make Gravy. Paul Kelly has said the track’s characters ‘have been stuck inside that song so long, I’m glad they’re going to get a chance to live life a different way’. Photograph: Binge

The first trailer has been released for How To Make Gravy, the upcoming film based on the much-loved song by Paul Kelly that has become an Australian Christmas anthem.

Kelly’s lyrics, which take the form of a letter from a man named Joe who is writing home from prison four days before Christmas, contain a whole host of characters including Joe’s brother Dan – the recipient of the letter – and Joe’s wife Rita.