CASTMother.........Celine O'Leary Father.........Paul Blackwell Girl Age 7.....Chloe Ferguson Girl Age 3....Phoebe Ferguson |
FILMMAKERSWritten and directed by........Rolf de Heer Produced by...............Domenico Procacci ...........Rolf de Heer Director of Photography..........Tony Clark Editor..........................Tania Nehme Production Designer..........Fiona Paterson Composer......................Graham Tardif Art Director...............Beverley Freeman Sound Designer...............Peter D. Smith |
THE CAST
The Quiet Room is Celine O'Leary's third film with director Rolf de Heer; she also acted in his second film, Incident at Raven's Gate and in the acclaimed Bad Boy Bubby. O'Leary began her career as a theatrical actress and has appeared in many productions for The Stage Company and The State Theatre Company of South Australia. She has had leading roles in several Australian television films, and has also appeared in documentaries produced by the South Australian Film Corporation.
Widely known in his native Australia for his idiosyncratic comedic portrayals, Paul Blackwell graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1981 and has worked with several theatre companies, including the State Theatre Company of South Australia and the Sydney Theatre Company. He has acted in productions as various as Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific," and Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile." Blackwell has also performed at the Vancouver Comedy Festival and Juste Pour Rire (Just for Laughs) Festival in Montreal. He has appeared in several Australian television movies and in the feature films I Own the Racecourse and On Our Selection.
Chloe Ferguson is a seven-year-old schoolgirl. She likes animals, reading and climbing trees.
Phoebe Ferguson is almost four years old. She goes to kindergarten and likes pasta, dolls and her big sister, Chloe.
THE FILMMAKERS
ROLF DE HEER · Writer, Director, Producer
Born in Holland in 1951, Rolf de Heer spent part of his childhood in Sumatra, Indonesia and moved to Australia with his family at the age of eight. De Heer worked for seven years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation before applying to Australia's prestigious Film Television and Radio School. He graduated three years later with diplomas in Production and Directing.
De Heer's first film Tail of a Tiger (1984) was a children's feature that was both a critical and commercial success. 1987's Incident at Raven's Gate, a mystery/thriller, sparked a number of offers from Hollywood. De Heer, however, chose to remain in Australia to make Dingo with Colin Friels and jazz legend Miles Davis in his only film role.
De Heer's next film Bad Boy Bubby pushed the boundaries of both form and content in low budget filmmaking. The $750,000 film, was described by David Stratton in Variety as "an extraordinary panorama of humanity and the environment in the 1990's." De Heer used 32 different cinematographers to chronicle the adventures of a child-man seeing the world for the first time after being locked away in an apartment for 35 years. Bad Boy Bubby won the Grand Special Jury Prize and the International Film Critics Prize at the 1993 Venice Film Festival, and it won numerous awards in Australia.
Bad Boy Bubby was de Heer's first collaboration with producer Domenico Procacci, which was followed by their 1995 production, Epsilon.
Born in 1960, Domenico Procacci attended the Gaumont School of Cinema in Rome from 1981 to 1984, concentrating on film direction and screenwriting. His first film as a producer came about when he joined with several other young filmmakers to make a low-budget feature. The result, Il Grande Blek, was both a critical and commercial success.
Procacci's subsequent films include La Stazione (The Station), directed by Sergio Rubini (1989); La Corsa dell'Innocent (Flight of the Innocent), directed by Carlo Carlei (1992) and produced with Franco Cristaldi; and Come due Coccodrilli (Like Two Crocodiles), directed by Giacomo Campiotti (1994). The latter two films were both nominated for Golden Globe Awards.
Procacci's first non-Italian feature was Rolf de Heer's acclaimed Bad Boy Bubby; he also produced de Heer's 1995 film, Epsilon. Procacci co-produced The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Ivan Chonkin, directed by Jiri Menzel, and Guiltrip, directed by Gerard Stembridge.
TONY CLARK · Director of Photography
Cinematographer Tony Clark joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a trainee in 1983, and subsequently worked in both South Australia and London before taking a position with Digital Arts Film and Television (South Australia) where he was involved with software design for motion control cameras. In 1993, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Photography for his work on the Disney Channel documentary "Great Wonders of the World - Wonders of Nature." The same year, he was also awarded an Australian Cinematographers Society Gold Award for Specialized Cinematography for the time-lapse film Winter. Clark also shot Rolf de Heer's 1995 feature Epsilon, which made extensive use of motion control techniques.
An editor since 1986, Tania Nehme has cut numerous documentaries and short dramas, and was nominated for an AFI Best Editor Award for her work on the short drama Once In Time. The Quiet Room is Nehme's second feature; she was also editor on Rolf de Heer's Epsilon.
FIONA PATERSON · Production Designer
Paterson began her career in the film industry in 1982 after receiving a Master's Degree in Cinema Studies. She worked as an interviewer and film critic, and also wrote commercials and audio-visual shorts. In 1985, Paterson and Rolf de Heer co-produced a television feature "Thank You Jack," which broke new ground as Australia's first no-budget feature. Paterson has worked on four films with Rolf de Heer, principally in the production and art departments. She is currently writing.
Graham Tardif has been composing music for film and television since 1984. His professional relationship with Rolf de Heer began with the director's first feature, Tail of A Tiger and has continued through Incident at Raven's Gate, Bad Boy Bubby, Epsilon and The Quiet Room. Tardif directed, produced and photographed "Without Choice," a one-hour television documentary on the political/social/military situation in Burma.
BEVERLEY FREEMAN · Art Director
In addition to her responsibilities as art director, Beverly Freeman also oversaw make-up, hair, wardrobe and continuity on The Quiet Room. She has worked as a production designer, art director, costume designer, and make-up and hair supervisor on several films in America, England and Germany. Her credits include Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby and Epsilon, the American co-production Ebbtide and The Life of Harry Dare.
PETER D. SMITH · Sound Designer
Beginning as a sound trainee at the South Australian Film Corporation, Peter D. Smith has worked his way through all levels of sound to become one of Australia's preeminent sound designers/mixers. Smith was music mixer on both Incident at Raven's Gate and Dingo and mixed the Miles Davis and Michel Legrand album "Dingo."
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