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April 10th, 2009
MusicArtsDance films to present OWL SONG in preproduction to the Cannes Film Market 2009
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Following several years of development, filmmakers Aanya Whitehead and Kevin Lucas of MusicArtsDance films will present OWL SONG to the Cannes Film Market 2009, being for the first time in preproduction stage. The project is financed as an Australian Producer Offset film certified under the new legislation which attracts a 40% rebate on Australian expenditure. The film also has equity, local distribution, insurances and gap all in place.
OWL SONG is a feature film based on the most celebrated woman composer of her time who at the height of her career is diagnosed with a serious brain tumour and given five days to live. When she slips into a coma her closest friends Yehudi Menuhin and Anais Nin are left with the responsibility to decide what is best for her and are divided about what to do - is it more humane to let her die, or should they do whatever they can to save her life, even if she may not fully recover her faculties?
With the powerful idea that life can triumph over death because the gift of imagination is irrepressible, Owl Song is a bittersweet tale with an emotionally rich and dramatic storyline that weaves together ambition, love, loss, friendship, music and sex into a compelilng narrative about an inspirational woman who at the height of her career was heralded as the most important female composer in the world, including creatiing history by being the first woman to ever be commissioned to write an opera in the USA.
With filming to commence in September 2009 in Australia, OWL SONG is seeking presales at Cannes for several international territories.
OWL SONG - With dreams there are no choices more...
April 10th, 2009:
MusicArtsDance films to present OWL SONG in preproduction to the Cannes Market 2009
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7, 2007:
Spain
Arts Festival screens MusicArtsDance films collection
Four iconic film works from the collection of MusicArtsDance
films will be showcased at the Harmonia Festival in Spain. Click
here pdf...
November
30, 2006:
Poet Les Murray's Evocative Tale
is a Christmas Eve Special on ABC Television (Australia) THE
WIDOWER screens on ABC Television as a Christmas
Eve Special 2006. Click
here pdf...
September
12, 2006: Feature film
project "Peggy" chosen by New York
"PEGGY"
(now re-titled Owl Song) a co-production between MusicArtsDance films (Australia)
and Silver Apples Media (UK) is selected as one of four independent
feature film projects from the bi-nation region of Australia
and NZ to attend New York's No Borders Film Market in September
2006.
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here pdf...
March
23, 2006: Australian
Filmmaking Couple’s 20 years of work is marked in Paris
Australian
filmmakers Kevin Lucas and Aanya Whitehead have been invited
to Paris to present some special film screenings in recognition
of a body of collaborative work spanning twenty years.
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here pdf...
July
30, 2004: The Widower
Screens at Montreal
From
the makers of the multi-award winning One Night The Moon, MusicArtsDance
films' THE WIDOWER has
been selected for the prestigious 28th
Montreal World Film Festival to be held in Montreal, Canada...
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here pdf...
March 1,
2004: MusicArtsDance
films secures backing for its Development
Slate through the 2003/2004 Film Victoria Commercial Script
Development Scheme Funding Round.
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here pdf...
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