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Link Funded Film Awarded Third Place at Canadian Int. Film Festival
16 October 2009
Film Festivals, Screenings - External
The Water Was Dark And It Went Forever Down was recently awarded Third Place, Independent Narrative in the Canadian International Annual Film Festival 2009.
The film has also been invited to screen at the Zagreb International Film Festival 2009 in Croatia (the only Australian film screening in the competition) and the Istanbul International Short Film Festival 2009 in Turkey.
The Water Was Dark And It Went Forever Down was directed by Khrob and Miranda Edmonds and produced by Kate Beverley
Based on a short story of the same name by Western Australia author Tim Winton and filmed on location at the Lancelin coast, The Water Was Dark And It Went Forever Down tells the story of a young girl who tries to escape the drowning influence of her alcoholic mother. The girl swims to an island inhabited only by birds. It is there she realises that only the strong survive.
The Water Was Dark And It Went Forever Down was funded by FTI’s Link Fund.
The fund aims to develop creative teams, filmmaking skills, and the financial and project management skills required of early career independent filmmakers within professional industry standards
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