This moving documentary looks at the
motivation of local filmmaker Peter Erdmann who has captured 30 years and 700
hours of the social history of a small town, Maleny, in Queensland Australia,
with his video recorder. Maleny is a town noted for an exceptional number of
cooperatives, artists, and environmentalists. It boasts the largest number of
small economic cooperatives in the Southern Hemisphere. The film traces Peter’s
amazing childhood in Shanghai under Japanese occupation and Communist rule
until he emigrates to Australia in 1959. Peter’s father, who died when he was
two, was a German film director in 1920s Berlin and his mother a Hollywood film
star. Peter was born in Nara Japan in 1926. All this adds up to an intriguing
story about an extraordinary 83-yeat old man, an exceptional community, and a
heart-warming conclusion.
BERNIE DWYER
Films written and produced:
“Double Date” is a short comedy about an injured football
player whose wandering eye gets him into trouble.
“The Green Man” is a short children’s fantasy story, filmed
in the beautiful Mary Cairncross rainforest.
Work on other films:
·
Video
producer, camera + edit, “The Dreamscape”, Sylph Circus, Maleny 2012
·
Video
producer, camera 1 + edit, “Live on Stage”, Meridan State College, 2012
·
Video
producer, camera 1 + edit, “Fame – the musical”, Meridan State College, 2012
·
Video
Producer, camera + edit , “Aladdin” stage pantomime, 2011, Maleny Players
·
Video
Producer, camera 1 + edit, “Generation Dance 2011”, stage dance production
Meridan State College, 2011
·
Video
Producer, camera + edit, “Cinderella – the sequel” stage pantomime, 2010,
Maleny Players
·
Sound
recorder, “Feel, Felt, Found”, short independent film, screened at the
Australian Film Festival, Maleny January 2008. Dir Katie lindsay.
·
1st
Assistant Director, “Vengeance” re-shoot and additional scenes, student film,
shot in Noosa, November 2006. Dir Matt Haskins/Nathan Hynes.
·
1st
Assistant Director, “Vengeance”, student film, shot in Noosa, September 2006.
Dir Matt Haskins/Nathan Hynes.
·
Location
Manager and Production Assistant, “Doomsday” AKA “Axed”, shot in Maleny, April
2006. Dir Josh Long.
·
Second
unit camera, “Two women and a chair”, student project, filmed in Buderim,
November 2005. Prod/Dir Terry Darke.
·
Camera/Lighting,
"Sins of the Father" (student project), filmed at Sunrise Beach, July
2005. Prod/Dir Jed Erakovic.
·
Camera
assistant/Lighting, "Rumpus Room" (student project), filmed at
Sunrise Beach & Noosa June 2005. Prod/Dir Gabriella Erakovic.
·
Unit
Assistant, "Garden of Love", filmed at Flaxton & Nambour, April
2005. Dir Peter Rogers.
LEANNE FARMILOE
THE CLEARING
Script & production by Leanne Farmiloe
Directed by Leanne Farmiloe
Camera by Adam Finney
Editing by Angus Holliday
Sound by Kevin Finney
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe
Running time 55 min
DVD PAL 16:9
A pioneer man, Henry Perryman has
had his faith in God shattered after his wife and baby son die from
influenza. In his grief he is neglecting
his eight-year old daughter Rose, who tries unsuccessfully bring him out of his
depression. After a planned surprise
backfires, she sets off into the bush to try and find God to help.
The title “The Clearing” refers
to the clearing itself where Henry meets the Gubbi Gubbi people who help him
find his way in the bush, but also to the clearing of his deep anger and
bitterness, and its associated message of hope and optimism.
2009
DOUBLE SPEAK
Script
& production by Leanne Farmiloe
Directed by Leanne Farmiloe
Camera by Leanne Farmiloe/Jacqueline Megaw
Editing by Angus Holliday/Jacqueline Megaw
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe
Running time 5.49 min
DVD PAL 16:9
Double Speak features a beautiful
original song by Kristina Olsen, and follows the journey of parents
experiencing the birth of twins, and the joy of their first sight of them.
2010
DRAFTED
Script by Leanne Farmiloe
Production by Brisbane Film Base
Running time 5.28 min
DVD PAL 16:9
Produced as part of a five-day
film course in Brisbane, “Drafted” tells the story of two boys selected for an
unexpected career.
2010
CAMP OUT
Running time 26.07 min
DVD PAL 16:9
Script & production by Leanne Farmiloe
Directed by Leanne Farmiloe
Camera by Lindsay McAuley
Editing by Lindsay McAuley
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe
Mum is worried when
her children go for a camp out underneath their favourite tree in the bush. It turns out her
fears are valid, but help comes from an unexpected source.
This film explores the mystical and sometimes inexplicable bond between
people and nature, and the sense of greater forces watching over us. There is an underlying motif that sometimes
there are near-misses in our lives that we don’t even know about.
2011
WEEDED OUT
Script & production by Leanne Farmiloe
Illustrated and edited by Leanne Farmiloe
Sound by Dave Evans
Music & effects by Leanne Farmiloe
Running time 9 min 24 sec
DVD PAL 16:9
Thistle and Toad are sick of
being classified as weeds and pests, so they go to wise old Platypus, an
Australian celebrity, for advice on what to do.
She advises them to journey to Canberra and discuss with Julia Gillard
about being reclassified. However,
Thistle and Toad are not keen on her proposed solution.
Featuring voices from local
identities in the Blackall Ranges, this is a light-hearted look at an important
environmental issue.
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