Wide open sky. - 1 DVD-video (approximately 100 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.

Title from disc. Entertainment One : 68660SDG. Extras: Audio commentary ; Alice lights the 'bonfire' ; Artist Frank Wright speaks from the heart ; Michelle arranges the choir ; Michelle's long road ; Kyh one year earlier ; Outtakes.

Directed by Lisa Nicol. Directed by Lisa Nicol.

Wide Open Sky follows the heart-warming story of an outback Australian children's choir. Chronicling their journey from auditions to end-of-year concert, the trials of trying to run a children's choir in a remote and disadvantaged region are revealed. Here, sport is king and music education is non-existent. Despite this, choir mistress Michelle has high expectations. She wants to teach the children contemporary, original, demanding music. It becomes clear for the children to believe in themselves, they all need someone who believes in them. Set against a landscape of devastating beauty, Wide Open Sky is a moving portrait of the fragile world of possibility that is childhood and reminds us why no child, anywhere, should grow up without music.

Rated G.


PAL region 4.


In English.

Winner Audience Award Best Documentary Film, Sydney Film Fesival 2015.

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68660SDG Twentieth Century Fox


Leonard, Michelle.


Children's choirs--New South Wales.
Country life--New South Wales.
Choirs (Music)--New South Wales.
Choral music--New South Wales.
Choral singing--New South Wales.
Teacher-student relationships--New South Wales.


Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.

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