ed in 2022. The film was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It was nominated for two awards at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards in 2022. Audiences and critics received Clean well. Synopsis Clean focuses on the life of Pankhurst. Pankhurst's mother was forced to give her up as a child. An unwelcoming family adopted her, and she was evicted at the age of seventeen. Born male, Pankhurst later married a woman and had children. The marriage failed once Pankhurst realised she wished to transition from male to female. Pankhurst tells the story of how she changed her name from Peter to Sandra, working in several jobs (including as a sex worker and drag queen) before becoming a funeral director. Her second marriage also ended in divorce. The majority of the film focuses on Pankhurst's later life as the owner and operator of a trauma cleaning service n
amed Specialist Trauma Cleaning Services, a cleaning company specialising in crime scene clean-up and hoarder restoration. The film follows Pankhurst as she attends various jobs across Melbourne, where she demonstrates and discusses the nature and challenges of cleaning crime scenes and assisting those living in squalor. Pankhurst reveals she is terminally ill, and this is likely due to exposure to cleaning chemicals early on in her business's development. Pankhurst is shown attending speaking events across Melbourne. Towards the end of the film, her employees are notified that Pankhurst has died owing to her illness. Cast Sandra Pankhurst as herself Cleaning workers Brian, Chris, Rod, and
