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MEDIA RELEASE
12 March 2007
Australian film festival opens with Silence, stars and style
Australian Film Focus 2007 opens on 20 April with The Silence, making its Asian debut.
This artistically-shot film, by Cate Shortland, director of Somersault, tells the story of a detective who becomes obsessed with an archive image of a beautiful murder victim. Richard Roxburgh from Van Helsing and Mission Impossible II heads the cast, which also includes Essie Davis from Girl with a Pearl Earring and Charlotte’s Web.
EVENT : Australian Film Focus, part of 20th Singapore International Film Festival
WHERE : National Museum and Lido, Shaw House
WHEN : 20–22 April, various timings, tickets from SISTIC.
Australian Film Focus 2007 also features:
Ten Canoes
Silence speaks more than words in this much-awaited film – the first major Australia feature film completely filmed in an indigenous Aboriginal language. Ten Canoes is narrated in English in some parts by David Gulpilil, the famous Australian indigenous actor and dancer. It stars David’s son, Jamie, whose character covets one of the wives of his older brother, was filmed at Arafura Swamp in the remote Northern Territory of Australia and was directed by Rolf de Heer. This film won the Cannes Un Certain Regard section’s Special Jury Prize and Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2006 for Best Film, Cinematography and Editing.
Candy
Starring Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish as two lovers caught in the storm of love and addiction and clearly out of control. This sexy, junkie love story is adapted from a novel by Luke Davies and directed by well-known Australian Director Neil Armfield.
Unfolding Florence – The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst
Director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many facets of Florence Broadhurst, a flamboyant Australian design pioneer, in this documentary. Broadhurst was a complex and eccentric woman, but highly talented and always stylish. Many years after her tragic death, Broadhurst’s fashion, interior and homeware designs and prints are now in huge demand internationally. She was 78 when she died and her death remains an unsolved mystery.
The Kitchen
Directed by Ben Ferris, Executive Director of Sydney Film School, The Kitchen tells the story of a dysfunctional family in one single shot with no dialogue. Ben will be in Singapore during to conduct workshops on creating an award-winning one-shot film.
The Last Chip
This short film stars three unknown actors, all ‘found’ at a Chinese opera club in Chinatown in Sydney. To improve her chance of landing a role, one of the actors walked the city streets removing all the audition notices posted around the suburb!