One Night the Moon
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| One Night The Moon | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Rachel Perkins |
| Produced by | Kevin Lucas Paul Humfress Aanya Whitehead |
| Written by | John Romeril Rachel Perkins |
| Starring | Paul Kelly |
| Music by | Paul Kelly Kev Carmody Maireed Hannah |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
One Night The Moon is an Australian musical movie.
[edit] Cast
- Paul Kelly as Father - Jim
- Kaarin Fairfax as Mother - Rose
- Memphis Kelly as Child - Emily
- Kelton Pell as Albert
- Ruby Hunter as Albert's Wife
- Chris Haywood as Sergeant
- David Field as Allman
[edit] Awards
- Australian Cinematographers Society (2002) Won Award of Distinction Telefeatures, TV Drama & Mini Series
- Australian Film Institute (2001) Won AFI Award Best Achievement in Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film
- Australian Writers' Guild (2001) Won Awgie Award Television - Television Original
- Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards (2002) Won FCCA Award Best Music Score
- IF Awards (2001) Nominated IF Award Best Direction
- New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (2001 fall) Won Genre Award Best Feature Film - Musical
- Screen Music Awards, Australia (2002) Won Screen Music Award Best Soundtrack Album
[edit] Plot
Set in the 1930s Australian Outback, starring singer Paul Kelly as the father of a girl who climbs out the window of their farmhouse one night and follows the moon into the hills. Her mother comes to check on her only to find that she is missing.
They get the police to search for her, but when their Aboriginal tracker arrives, the father says he does not want any blacks on his land. The father and the white police go searching for her, destroying the tracks the tracker could have tracked the girl with. The men cannot find her, eventually the girl's mother goes to the tracker's hut and they go looking for her, they find her dead in the hills and bring her back home. The girl's father blames himself for not finding her, so he shoots himself.
