Article - The West, September 1st, 2008
Leading ladies team up for new film
Some of Australia's leading ladies, including Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto and Deborra-lee Furness, are teaming up for a new film about the depth of love between mothers and children.
Based on the award-winning play Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Blessed interweaves four moving stories which follow the misadventures of six children as they wander the city streets through a day and a night.
Otto, O'Connor and Furness, who are all real-life mothers, star in the movie about “the depth of love between mothers and their young, and the life force that ultimately connects us all”.
The film, which also stars Victoria Haralabidou, William McInnes, Monica Maughan and Tasma Walton, will be shot on location in Melbourne from October 6 until November 21.
Blessed marks the third collaboration between director Ana Kokkinos and writer Andrew Bovell (Head On, The Book of Revelation), and has been adapted for the screen by Bovell, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas.
The foursome wrote the four stories in the play first performed at the Victorian Trades Hall Council in 1998.
Who's Afraid of the Working Class was the winner of a Melbourne Green Room Award for Best New Play the same year, and a gold Awgie Award in 1999.
Some of Australia's leading ladies, including Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto and Deborra-lee Furness, are teaming up for a new film about the depth of love between mothers and children.
Based on the award-winning play Who's Afraid of the Working Class?, Blessed interweaves four moving stories which follow the misadventures of six children as they wander the city streets through a day and a night.
Otto, O'Connor and Furness, who are all real-life mothers, star in the movie about “the depth of love between mothers and their young, and the life force that ultimately connects us all”.
The film, which also stars Victoria Haralabidou, William McInnes, Monica Maughan and Tasma Walton, will be shot on location in Melbourne from October 6 until November 21.
Blessed marks the third collaboration between director Ana Kokkinos and writer Andrew Bovell (Head On, The Book of Revelation), and has been adapted for the screen by Bovell, Melissa Reeves, Patricia Cornelius and Christos Tsiolkas.
The foursome wrote the four stories in the play first performed at the Victorian Trades Hall Council in 1998.
Who's Afraid of the Working Class was the winner of a Melbourne Green Room Award for Best New Play the same year, and a gold Awgie Award in 1999.
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