- Film Title (English): Looking for Alibrandi
- Film Title (Spanish): Buscando a Alibrandi
- Country of Origin: Australia
- Year of Completion: 2000
- Running Time: 103 min Format/ Color: 35 mm / color Language: English with Spanish Subtitles
- Country Spotlight: Australia
Australia con 6 peliculas - Country Spotlight: Francia
Fracia con 3 peliculas - 127 Horas
Film Title (Original): 127 Horas - 3 to the Rescue
Film Title (Original): 3 Al Rescate - A Small Act
Film Title (Original): A Small Act - Better Mus' Come
Film Title (Original): Better Mus' Come - Boys of Summer
Film Title (Original): Boys of Summer - Buscón: Searcher/Swindler
Film Title (Original): Buscón - Carancho
Film Title (Original): Carancho - Countdown to Zero
Film Title (Original): Countdown to Zero - Eyes Wide Open
Film Title (Original): Eyes Wide Open - Jean Gentil
Film Title (Original): Jean Gentil - José Martí: The eye of canary
Film Title (Original): José Martí - Rain of Hope
Film Title (Original): Pluie D'espoir - Love Child
Film Title (Original): La Hija Natural - La Yuma
Film Title (Original): La Yuma - Leo's Room
Film Title (Original): El Cuarto de Leo - Lumumba
Film Title (Original): Lumumba - Máximo Gómez: Son of Fate
Film Title (Original): Máximo Gómez Hijo del Destino - Monica and David
Film Title (Original): Monica and David - Moloch Tropical
Film Title (Original): Moloch Tropical - Mother and Child
Film Title (Original): Mother and Child - Never Let Me Go
Film Title (Original): Never let me Go - Nuremberg : Its Lesson for Today
Film Title (Original): Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] - Oceans
Film Title (Original): Oceans - Portraits in a Sea of Lies
Film Title (Original): Retratos en un mar de mentiras - Presumed Guilty
Film Title (Original): Presunto culpable - Restrepo
Film Title (Original): Restrepo - Puzzle
Film Title (Original): Rompecabezas - Revolution
Film Title (Original): Revolución - Seraphine
Film Title (Original): Seraphine - Sometimes In April
Film Title (Original): Quelques jour en avril - Sins of my Father
Film Title (Original): Pecados de mi padre - Southern District
Film Title (Original): Zona Sur - The American
Film Title (Original): The American - The Man Next Door
Film Title (Original): El Hombre de al lado - To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America
Film Title (Original): To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America - To the Sea
Film Title (Original): Alamar - The Loss
Título Original: La Pérdida - The Man by the Sore
Título Original: L'homme Sur Les Quais - Traces of the Trade:
A Story from the Deep North
Film Title (Original): Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North - Waste Land
Film Title (Original): Waste Land - Heart and Soul The Documentary
Film Title (Original): Voz y Alma El Documental
FILM CREDITS:
- Director: Kate Woods
- Executive Producer: Tristram Miall
- Producer: Robyn Kershaw
- Writer: Melina Marchetta
- Cinematographer: Toby Oliver
- Editor: Martin Connor
- Music: Alan John
- Cast: Greta Scacchi, Anthony La Paglia, Pia Miranda
FILM SYNOPSIS:
At seventeen Josie Alibrandi is a girl with attitude about to enter her final year as a scholarship student at an exclusive Catholic College. It’s the year her life is turned upside down and changed forever. She meets her father for the first time; discovers some astonishing things about her family heritage; falls in love – with the wrong guy – and has her first painful encounter with grief.
In the process she learns how deceptive notions of inherited can be and, by successfully weathering a tempestuous year, she emerges a strong, determined and independent woman.
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY:
Looking for Alibrandi is Kate Wood first feature after a distinguished career in television spanning nearly 20 years where she has directed some of Australia’s most popular and acclaimed television shows.
For ABC, she has directed episodes of WILDSIDE, RAW FM, CORELLI, JANUS, HEARTLAND, POLICE RESCUE and GP. In 1996, she directed the mini series SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR’S BABIES which received an Australian Film Institute Award nomination for Best Mini Series, as well as winning awards in the Best Television Actor and Actress categories.
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