ausfilm

Screen Australia: Media Release

Thursday 1 December 2011: The feature film Wish You Were Here, produced by Angie Fielder, co-written by Kieran Darcy-Smith and Felicity Price and directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith, has been selected for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Wish You Were Here will have its world premiere on the opening night of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. A showcase of exceptional works from across the globe, the Dramatic Competition is described by the festival as ‘a way to honour the independent spirit in filmmakers’.

The film tells the story of four friends who travel to South-East Asia on a holiday, but only three of them return home. The film reveals what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia.

“Kieran and I are immensely proud and honoured that Wish You Were Here has been selected to have its world premiere at Sundance. It’s exciting to see our film open the prestigious World Cinema Dramatic Competition at a festival which celebrates independent filmmaking,” said producer Angie Fielder.

“Sundance’s international competition program is one of the most sought-after premiere slots in the world. Thousands of films are submitted; only 16 are chosen. Established by Robert Redford in 1984, the festival is a mecca for the independent film community and, like Animal Kingdom and others before, it offers Australian cinema an outstanding debut platform,” said Screen Australia’s Head of Marketing, Kathleen Drumm.

Click here for the complete Media Release