Camille Chen's debut feature film Little Sparrows has won the Spaartan Award in the 2010 DigiSPAA feature film competition, part of the Screen Producers Association of Australia's (Spaa) annual conference. Little Sparrows traces the emotional journey of three sisters (played by Nina Deasley, Melanie Munt and Arielle Gray) whose mother Susan (Nicola Bartlett) is dying of breast cancer. As the women gather to celebrate what will be their last Christmas with their mother, the film explores and reflects upon the individual journeys of the three sisters, the decisions they've made and their family relationships. The film was shot on location in Chen's home state of Western Australia in December 2009.
- 11/17/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
The 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival program was announced last night and one of the anticipated Australian films in the program is family drama Little Sparrows.
Directed by Tiawan-born West Australian filmmaker Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen, Little Sparrows had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in June.
Here's a synopsis...
Little Sparrows traces the emotional lives of three sisters whose mother Susan (Nicola Bartlett) is dying of cancer. One summery Christmas lunch is the pivotal event around which the film's elliptical structure revolves, moving with grace between the interior journeys of the three daughters and Susan's own reconciliation with the life she has lived and her impending death.
The eldest daughter Nina (Nina Deasley) is widowed with two young children; Anna (Melanie Munt) is an actress married to a filmmaker and Christine (Arielle Gray) is a medical student. All three struggle to define themselves, their relationships with each other, their loves,...
Directed by Tiawan-born West Australian filmmaker Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen, Little Sparrows had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in June.
Here's a synopsis...
Little Sparrows traces the emotional lives of three sisters whose mother Susan (Nicola Bartlett) is dying of cancer. One summery Christmas lunch is the pivotal event around which the film's elliptical structure revolves, moving with grace between the interior journeys of the three daughters and Susan's own reconciliation with the life she has lived and her impending death.
The eldest daughter Nina (Nina Deasley) is widowed with two young children; Anna (Melanie Munt) is an actress married to a filmmaker and Christine (Arielle Gray) is a medical student. All three struggle to define themselves, their relationships with each other, their loves,...
- 7/7/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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