Wide open sky.
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FilmPublisher number: 68660SDG | Twentieth Century FoxDistributor: Moore, Park NSW : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2016]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 DVD-video (approximately 100 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cmContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscSubject(s): 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 WalesGenre/Form: Documentary films. | Feature films. | Nonfiction films. DDC classification: 782.7 Production credits: Directed by Lisa Nicol.Awards: Winner Audience Award Best Documentary Film, Sydney Film Fesival 2015.Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor - DVD | Wundowie Wundowie General Stacks | 782.7 WID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111068157872 |
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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.
Rated G.
PAL region 4.
In English.
Winner Audience Award Best Documentary Film, Sydney Film Fesival 2015.
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.
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