Article: The Courier Mail, August 6th, 2007
Family Makes BIFF Their Own
THE Brisbane International Film Festival has prompted a reunion for Redcliffe filmmaker Laurie McInnes, and her actor-writer brother, William, nine years her junior.
As festival VIPs, the film celebrities have opted to stay with their mother, Iris, at the childhood Redcliffe home, north of Brisbane, they also shared with their late father, Colin, an elder brother and two sisters.
They they could have stayed at the $500 a night Fortitude Valley Emporium hotel that is headquarters for the festival's guests.
"There's been a lot of talk about our childhood,'' Laurie says. "Mum reckons acting is nothing much, but I'm always being asked to sign things for her,'' chimes in William, who gained a tertiary degree in law and economics before studying acting in Perth.
Iris, Laurie and relatives joined an admittedly nervous William on Saturday at the Regent Theatre in Brisbane for the Australian premiere of the locally-produced drama Unfinished Sky, filmed around Beaudesert, south of Brisbane.
In Unfinished Sky, he plays a widower farmer who hides an abused Afghani refugee (played by Dutch actor Monic Hendrickx) in the film directed by Peter Duncan. Laurie, who has recently returned to live in Redcliffe, travelled through much of Australia last year as director of photography on a film made by another former Brisbane filmmaker, Lawrence Johnston.
Her last BIFF involvement was the 1993 premiere of her Brisbane-made drama Broken Highway. She is soon to start production of a documentary about the history of Chinese gold-miners in north Queensland.
"Young William had his first starring role in a puppet show I presented at home,'' Laurie recalled. "I kept prompting him to say his lines, but didn't realise he couldn't read them as he was just four years old.''
He also played a role in the short film Laurie later made to win a place at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney to study directing.
"Perhaps one day he'll appear in a feature film of mine,'' she said of her 45-year-old brother, who is on a deadline to complete his third book, You Ate Her Alive for publication next year.
He enjoyed success in 2005 with his childhood reminiscence, A Man's Got To Have a Hobby.
THE Brisbane International Film Festival has prompted a reunion for Redcliffe filmmaker Laurie McInnes, and her actor-writer brother, William, nine years her junior.
As festival VIPs, the film celebrities have opted to stay with their mother, Iris, at the childhood Redcliffe home, north of Brisbane, they also shared with their late father, Colin, an elder brother and two sisters.
They they could have stayed at the $500 a night Fortitude Valley Emporium hotel that is headquarters for the festival's guests.
"There's been a lot of talk about our childhood,'' Laurie says. "Mum reckons acting is nothing much, but I'm always being asked to sign things for her,'' chimes in William, who gained a tertiary degree in law and economics before studying acting in Perth.
Iris, Laurie and relatives joined an admittedly nervous William on Saturday at the Regent Theatre in Brisbane for the Australian premiere of the locally-produced drama Unfinished Sky, filmed around Beaudesert, south of Brisbane.
In Unfinished Sky, he plays a widower farmer who hides an abused Afghani refugee (played by Dutch actor Monic Hendrickx) in the film directed by Peter Duncan. Laurie, who has recently returned to live in Redcliffe, travelled through much of Australia last year as director of photography on a film made by another former Brisbane filmmaker, Lawrence Johnston.
Her last BIFF involvement was the 1993 premiere of her Brisbane-made drama Broken Highway. She is soon to start production of a documentary about the history of Chinese gold-miners in north Queensland.
"Young William had his first starring role in a puppet show I presented at home,'' Laurie recalled. "I kept prompting him to say his lines, but didn't realise he couldn't read them as he was just four years old.''
He also played a role in the short film Laurie later made to win a place at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney to study directing.
"Perhaps one day he'll appear in a feature film of mine,'' she said of her 45-year-old brother, who is on a deadline to complete his third book, You Ate Her Alive for publication next year.
He enjoyed success in 2005 with his childhood reminiscence, A Man's Got To Have a Hobby.
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