Preservation

Two people consumed by dark secrets struggle with loneliness to discover each other in a gothic love triangle.

CAST

Daphne                        Jacqueline McKenzie
Nick                            Jack Finsterer
Mr Crewe                   Simon Burke
Mrs Perez                    Fiona Martinelli
Kelly                           Genevieve Hegney
Mrs Harrison              Kris McQuade

CREW
Writer & Director          Sofya Gollan
Producer                   Della Churchill
Prod Design                Elizabeth Mary Moore
Costume Design          Margot Wilson
Cinematography          Cordelia Beresford
Edited                         Simon Martin
Sound Design              Liam Price
Production Mgr          Michelle Russell

Synopsis

Daphne is certain love has passed her by. In the late 1890’s Sydney Depression she runs a failing inherited taxidermy business alone, and is easy prey for a charming spiritualist photographer. He plays on her loneliness to put her in touch with her dead father.

Struggling to make ends meet, she advertises for a boarder. Daphne’s ordered world is shaken when Nick knocks on her door. A quiet travel-stained man, who’s lost his farm in the drought, he has his own dark past. Against her rules, Nick brings home “loose women”, drinks to drown out voices he hears at night and encroaches on Daphne’s personal space.

As Nick and Daphne’s secrets unravel under the gaze of dead animals, a tenuous, fragile love grows for two people who thought themselves lost to love. Preservation boasts a wonderful cast and lush production values to create a haunting Gothic melodrama interlaced with black humour.

View the film:

TV Sales achieved:

SBS Television, TVNZ, ABC Asia Pacific, Screenrights educational uses

Film Festivals and Awards: Australian

2003

Sydney International Film Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

50 minutes from Home: An Australian Film Festival

Australian Film Institute Awards Nominations:

Best Short Film, Best Screenplay in a Short Film and Open Craft – Production and Costume Design

Film Critics Circle Awards Nomination: Best Australian Short Feature

ASSG Awards Winner: Best Sound for a Telefeature.

2004

International Womens Day Festival, Gold Coast

Australian Writers Guild Nomination: Best Short Feature Screenplay

Film Festivals and Awards:European

2003

London Deaf Film Festival

Cinema des Antipodes, St Tropez

2004

Festival du Film de Paris, Paris

FIPA, Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels, Biarritz

Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester

Stockholm Deaf Film Festival

2005

11^th Australian Film Festival, London

Film Festivals and Awards:North America

2004

Banff TV Festival Rockie Awards –Winner: Hors Concours Award, Banff, Canada.

Telluride Indiefest 2004 – Winner: Feature Film Category.

SALES:

35mm print in English, 35mm print with French subtitles, DVD and Beta SP copies available.

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