ONE NIGHT THE MOON WINS TOP TWO AWGIE AWARDS

Press Release - 10th September 2001

MusicArtsDance Films’ production ONE NIGHT THE MOON picked up two of the most coveted prizes at the Australian Writers’ Guild’s 2001 AWGIE awards this weekend – winning John Romeril with Rachel Perkins both the "Best Television Original" and the event’s major award – the Golden AWGIE.

With the screenplay written by John Romeril (THE FLOATING WORLD) and Director Rachel Perkins (RADIANCE), the film is driven by a music
narrative based on the true story of a young girl who went missing in the Australian outback in 1932. Musical Director Mairead Hannan composed the music with Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody, who wrote the lyrics together.

Starring Paul Kelly, Kaarin Fairfax, Kelton Pell, David Field, Chris
Haywood, Ruby Hunter and Memphis Kelly, ONE NIGHT THE MOON has also been picked up for the Hawaii International Film Festival (November 2001), and the Moondance International Film Festival in Colrado (January 2002), where it is already a first-round quarter-finalist in the Best Feature Film category.

The film has already screened at the international Ethno filmfest in
Germany; the Melbourne and Brisbane International Film Festivals, and will screen in the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival in September and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Festival in October.

ONE NIGHT THE MOON is a collaboration between the AFC, NSW FTO, SAFC, ABC, Opera Australia’s OzOpera, and MusicArtsDance Films, produced by MusicArtsDance Films’ Aanya Whitehead and Paul Humfress, with Kevin Lucas acting as both Producer and Executive Producer. MusicArtsDance Films also co-produced PaulCox’s NIJINSKY, which screens in the Masters Section of the Toronto International Film Festival this week, and is due for Australian release in 2002.

ONE NIGHT THE MOON will be released in Australia by Dendy Films on 8 November 2001.