Press release from J. Khehtie
THE TELEGRAM MAN was awarded Best Film, as well as People's Choice at the 2011 Canberra Short Film Festival, and Best Production, as well as Best Cinematography at the 2011 In the Bin Short Film Festival in the Gold Coast over the weekend.
THE TELEGRAM MAN has been nominated for Best Short Fiction Film at the 2011 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. It'll be screened as part of the 2011 AFI Awards at 6:45 pm on 8th October 2011 at Hoyts Fox Studios in Sydney and at 6:30 pm on 14th October 2011 at Cinema Nova in Melbourne. The session in Sydney will be open to AFI members only. The session in Melbourne will be open to both the general public and AFI members. THE TELEGRAM MAN will be screened on D-Cinema / DCP format at both sessions.
Set in 1942 Australian country town, THE TELEGRAM MAN stars three Australian and international screen legends Jack Thompson, Gary Sweet and Sigrid Thornton. It is the first time that Jack Thompson and Gary Sweet have worked together. It is the first time Jack and Sigrid Thornton have reunited since the 1982 classic Australian film THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER.
During the long years of World War II, Australia's small farming communities paid a terrible price. In the rural towns of New South Wales, one family each week discovered that their son or husband or brother or father would not be coming home. In the throws of such grief, one seldom considers the man who delivers the news.
Adapted from a story by John Boyne, the award-winning author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS, THE TELEGRAM MAN tells the story of people in an Australian country town, who experience first-hand, how war inexorably spreads its tentacles well beyond the battlefield. Here, in the farms and shops and pubs, pain and terror have nothing to do with a hail of bullets.
THE TELEGRAM MAN was awarded Best Short Honourable Mention at the 2011 Rhode Island International Film Festival in the US, Best International Film at the 2011 GI Film Festival in Washington DC, and Best Original Score at the 2011 St. Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne. Shot on super 35 mm film with widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio, the film was awarded an Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) cinematography award.
THE TELEGRAM MAN was recently part of the 2011 Academy Awards-accredited Palm Springs International ShortFest, as well as Rhode Island International Film Festival, and will be part of the upcoming 2011 Mill Valley Film Festival and Heartland Film Festival in the US.