Now Add Honey
Director: Wayne Hope
Producer: Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope
Starring: Robyn Butler, Portia de Rossi, Lucy Durack, Lucy Fry, Hamish Blake
Synopsis: Caroline Morgan (Robyn Butler) is the glue that keeps her family together, but when her movie star niece, Honey Halloway (Lucy Fry), is forced to stay with her in suburbia after her mother (Portia de Rossi) is sent to rehab, it’s Caroline that comes unstuck. Now Add Honey is an uplifting, laugh out loud, family comedy about women and girls triumphantly being who they are.
Pawno
Director: Paul Ireland
Producer: Paul Ireland and Damian Hill
Starring: John Brumpton, Kerry Armstrong, Mark Coles-Smith, Maeve Dermody, Damian Hill, Malcolm Kennard, Tony Rickards, Daniel Frederickson
Synopsis: Pawno is a character driven ensemble film set in the diverse and multicultural suburb of Footscray in Melbourne. Revolving around one day in the lives of 12 characters, the film is set in an ageing Pawnbrokers and at the core of the story beats a romance, yet love is rarely simple. Within a day, lives intersect and motives are examined. A multi-layered story that celebrates the rawness of humanity and challenges audiences to see the world from a different view.
Putuparri and the Rainmakers – MIFF@CinefestOZ.
A presentation of the Melbourne International Film Festival MIFF Premiere Fund at CinéfestOZ
Director: Nicole Ma
Producer: John Moore & Nicole Ma
Starring: Tom Lawford, Sylvestor Rangie
Synopsis: Tom ‘Putuparri’ Lawford is a man caught between two worlds – torn between his life in the modern world of Fitzroy Crossing and his destiny as a cultural leader of his people. Tom battles with all the temptations of western society at the same time as he reconnects with his ancestral lands, learns about his traditional culture and shoulders his responsibility to pass this knowledge onto the next generation. Director Nicole Ma spent more than a decade documenting Putuparri’s journey, travelling with him and his family on numerous occasions to Kurtal, in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. Kurtal is a site of great spiritual significance to Putuparri’s family where they have ritually made rain for many thousands of years. The family have spent nearly two decades fighting for their native title claim over the area. Set against the backdrop of this long fight for ownership of traditional lands, Putuparri and the Rainmakers is an emotional, visually breathtaking story of love, hope and the survival of Aboriginal law and culture against all odds.
The Daughter
Director: Simon Stone
Producer: Jan Chapman and Nicole O’Donohue
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Ewen Leslie, Paul Schneider, Miranda Otto, Anna Torv with Odessa Young and Sam Neill
Synopsis: In the last days of a dying logging town dying logging town Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.
