Australian film-maker Jan Sharp was honoured at the Telluride Film Festival. The festival was dedicated to both Sharp and Us producer Bingham Ray. Sharp’s film credits include Wide Sargasso Sea and Echoes of Paradise.
Accompanying The Sapphires and documentary On Borrowed Time by David Bradbury about film-maker Paul Cox and his life on a liver transplant waiting list were short films Rain by Tom and Sam McKeith, Barn Owl by Anna Spencer and Boo! by Rupert Reid.
The announcement:
Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival ending today was dedicated to the late Australian writer/producer/director Jan Sharp, as well as to the late Us producer Bingham Ray.
Jan’s long career began at Film Australia and included credits Wild Sargasso Sea and The Good Wife.
Bingham was a co-founder of October Films, a leading independent distribution company of the 1990s, and a former president of United Artists.
Australian films...
Accompanying The Sapphires and documentary On Borrowed Time by David Bradbury about film-maker Paul Cox and his life on a liver transplant waiting list were short films Rain by Tom and Sam McKeith, Barn Owl by Anna Spencer and Boo! by Rupert Reid.
The announcement:
Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival ending today was dedicated to the late Australian writer/producer/director Jan Sharp, as well as to the late Us producer Bingham Ray.
Jan’s long career began at Film Australia and included credits Wild Sargasso Sea and The Good Wife.
Bingham was a co-founder of October Films, a leading independent distribution company of the 1990s, and a former president of United Artists.
Australian films...
- 9/4/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
An Australian short film has been selected for the 39th Telluride Film Festival.
Directed by Aap journalist Sam and brother Tom McKeith, Rain is set in Western Sydney and follows a pregnant teenager seeking shelter from a storm.
Rain will be shown within the festival’s Film-makers of Tomorrow program.
The film was self-funded and made with the support of MetroScreen.
Joining Rain is Hopscotch/eOne distributed-feature film, The Sapphires, which has just become the highest grossing local film in 2012.
The McKeith’s first short film Pig was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and has since screened in more than 20 film festivals.
Tom said: “”I was blown away when I got the news that Rain has been selected for Telluride this year. It’s a very simple story that was made with a lot of passion and heart, and I’m just so happy it’s resonated with the festival organizers.
Directed by Aap journalist Sam and brother Tom McKeith, Rain is set in Western Sydney and follows a pregnant teenager seeking shelter from a storm.
Rain will be shown within the festival’s Film-makers of Tomorrow program.
The film was self-funded and made with the support of MetroScreen.
Joining Rain is Hopscotch/eOne distributed-feature film, The Sapphires, which has just become the highest grossing local film in 2012.
The McKeith’s first short film Pig was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and has since screened in more than 20 film festivals.
Tom said: “”I was blown away when I got the news that Rain has been selected for Telluride this year. It’s a very simple story that was made with a lot of passion and heart, and I’m just so happy it’s resonated with the festival organizers.
- 8/31/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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