FILMS: Brizbin Boy Canberra Girl | Father's Day | Synopses of upcoming films

Brizbin Boy Canberra Girl, Voice of Treason Films, copyright 2000. Georgy Jowl (Tony Ashbolt), now an aging writer in placid retirement in Queensland, chances upon a penny in his writing desk and is reminded of a girl, Palasha Nijinsky (Anna Lehmann), whom he loved while in his twenties, unemployed in Canberra. He remembers their bohemian life and doomed love, and all their student friends and government enemies, their too few times together and many times apart. Patrick Hine's debut feature uses memory to free the film from a traditional narrative and allows a "stream of consciousness" approach which boldly incorporates fantasy, documentary, story telling (Georgy tells his friends stories employing developing Polaroids) and more straight dramatic scenes. Georgy's world is peopled with characters   unique to Australia's wintry capital of two decades ago, a landscape local only to Queensland writer Geoffrey Shera's imagination. Voice of Treason films presents an Ounce of Gold production a Patrick N. Hine film  Brizbin Boy Canberra Girl  Tony Ashbolt  Anna Lehmann  Catherine Fuery  Michael Sams  Jason Uhlmann  Susan Fenn   sound by Camille Forde  songs and music by Bronwyn Schmerl  photographed by Vanessa Crowther and Gary Smith  edited by Gary Smith  adapted from the short stories by Geoffrey Shera  written for the screen, produced and directed by Patrick N. Hine. Colour and Black-and-White, original medium Digital Video, 78 mins, 2000 Copyright  Voice of Treason Films  2000 back to top   Father's Day, Voice of Treason Films, copyright 1997. Father's Day tells the story of Michael Kinder, an unemployed man whose life has reached its lowest ebb:  living in a seedy men's hostel, separated from his wife and children, having lost custody after his violent attack on his daughter, Natalie. Torn between rage and despair as he watches a car disappear down the hostel's driveway - taking his wife and children to a new life overseas - Michael reflects on the events which led him to this moment:  a mosaic of images covering his marriage, its breakup and his move to the hostel assail his mind's eye.  The one hope to which he clings is that his daughter will forgive him.  A countdown to Natalie's departure has started:  will he gain her forgiveness or lose her respect forever? Father's Day  A Patrick N. Hine film  Stuss Read  Luisa Sanzone  Laura Gnibus  introducing Roisin Malone  photographed by Craig Lucas  edited by Gary Smith  music by Jo Abbott  written, produced and directed by Patrick N. Hine  Colour, original medium Super 16mm film, 21 mins, 40 seconds, 1997 Copyright 1997 Voice of Treason Films back to top

 

Here are the synopses for the feature films which Voice of Treason Films are developing for production in the years following 2005. CRIPPLE KING ROY HOLMES, petrol station owner in Corinth, a Queensland country town, seems to have everything: a beautiful wife, JO, two young daughters, TONI and ISABELLE, a young son, PAUL, and a new baby boy, ETHAN. This changes when one night, Jo breaks down and tells Roy of her lost son, the son she had while still with her abusive first husband, LEON, the son Leon stole from her. She admits she does not know if this son is alive or dead but this only seems to spur Roy on in his conviction that he must find this lost boy to give his family completion. He does not realize that he is moving towards the horrific fulfillment of a destiny he could never escape. SPEAR CARRIER DAN PHELAN isn’t having much luck as a first-year university student. If his sexuality isn’t being openly brought into question, it’s being stifled by the cruel indifference of the female student body. His illegible handwriting sees his grades plummet and his tutor simply won’t believe he’s developed the flu with record speed when he tries to escape his tutorial presentation. To top it off, an accidental fall onto a railway line leaves his face a gravel-rash-covered mess. All that changes – for the worse – when he falls, hard, for stylish fellow student, TASHA SHERMAN. Obsessed with his hopeless infatuation, DAN gets little sympathy from his sisters, and only slightly more from his over-tolerant friend, ROBIN. As DAN finds the fruition of his love for TASHA becoming an ever-more-remote unlikelihood, he realises that the only person who he’s always been able to rely on has been ROBIN. He realises his feelings for ROBIN have moved beyond friendship but is it too late to let her know? FINCH STREET JIM ADAMS, a university student, is disturbed by memories of another life as an older, married man and resolves to discover the meaning of these ‘other’ memories, no matter the consequences. After another night of disturbing memories of life as an older alcoholic, Jim chances upon an old photograph of a young woman holding a baby, which prompts a lucid memory of this previous life. His search through a family album raises more questions than it answers. Enlisting the aid of his university friend, RACHEL, Jim continues his investigation but is shocked by the tension and fear his seemingly innocuous questions elicit from his mother, SOPHIE. Jim’s search for the meaning of his nightmares will reveal a family secret too terrible to ever be imagined.

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