A little over a year after Adam Elliot’s sublime stop motion feature Mary and Max opened the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, a Melbourne-based crime flick, Animal Kingdom, has been awarded Sundance’s coveted grand jury prize.
Yesterday the gong was dished out to debut writer/director David Michod, a Victorian College of the Arts graduate who shot the film “all over Melbourne” in 35 days. Michod, 37, wrote the first draft over a decade ago after reading a series of books by former The Age crime writer Tom Noble. The film stars Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn and James Frecheville and is reportedly loosely based on the 1988 Walsh Street police shootings in South Yarra, Melbourne.
Michod is a former editor of Australian film industry mag Inside Film and made the transition from writing about films to making them about four years ago. “I basically decided to stop writing about what other people were doing, and do it myself,” he said.
Check out the poster (above left, click to enlarge) which was designed by Australian key art maestro Jeremy Saunders. And check out the teaser trailer below.
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Luke, as I wrote on my blog, I don’t think much of the poster. But that trailer is just amazing.
Just a great use of music and visuals.
Good post Grog. You’re absolutely right about the Phantom Menace poster – simple, but absolutely brilliant. Never forgotten it.