SYNOPSIS

Australian singer and songwriter Paul Kelly stars in (and wrote part of the musical score for) this unusual musical, which combines folk and country influences with the aboriginal sounds of the Outback to tell the story of a lost child and the divergent efforts to find her. A simple farmer (Paul Kelly) and his wife (Kaarin Fairfax) are the proud parents of a beautiful little girl (Memphis Kelly). One night, Father tells the girl a bedtime story about sirens songs and the moon; fascinated by the story, the restless girl wanders out of the house in the night to follow the moon, and in the morning her parents discover she is gone. After the father reports his daughter missing, the authorities put together a search party, including Albert (Kelton Pell), an Aborigine police offer with remarkable tracking abilities. The farmer, however, is a prejudiced man, and objects to having a black man on the search team, no matter what his abilities may be. Offended, Albert leaves the police force behind, and sets out to find the girl on his own; soon, the girl's mother joins him, convinced that Albert's knowledge is more valuable than her husband's ignorance.

TECHNICAL DATA

Director: Rachel Perkins
Production: Kevin Lucas, Paul Humfress, Aanya Whitehead

Screenplay: John Romeril, Rachel Perkins
Cast: Paul Kelly, Kaarin Fairfax, Memphis Kelly, Kelton Pell
Editing: Karen Johnson
Cinematography: Kim Batterham
Soundtrack: Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody, Mairead Hannan
Runtime: 57 min. Language: English Color:Color

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY
Rachel Perkins is a film and television director, film and television producer and a writer. She is best known for her films Radiance and One Night the Moon. She is an Arrernte woman from Central Australia and is the daughter of Charles Perkins.


FILMOGRAPHY
- Blood Brothers (1993) - producer, director, writer
- Radiance (1998) - director
- One Night the Moon (2001) - director, writer
- Flat (2002) - producer
- Mimi (2002) - producer
- First Australians (2008) - producer, director, writer, narrator