EXCLUSIVE: The Yellow Affair has boarded world gross sales (excluding Australia) on Justin Kurzel’s documentary Ellis Park, his upcoming movie about musician Warren Ellis.
A key member of iconic bands The Soiled Three and Nick Cave and the Dangerous Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Ellis has reduce an unorthodox determine in music for greater than three many years. The movie will see the Australian musician give a guided tour by his world and an animal sanctuary pricey to his coronary heart within the forests of Sumatra. The sanctuary was co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose crew of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals after which devotes years to nursing them again to well being.
Having debuted on the Melbourne Movie Competition in August, the film is subsequent set to play on the London Movie Competition on October 19.
Pic is written, directed and government produced by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, who’s coming off sturdy notices for Venice film The Order, and composed by Ellis. Producers are Nick Batzias and Charlotte Wheaton, government producer is Damien Newton-Brown and Howard McCorkell, editor is Nick Fenton and director of pictures is Germain McMicking.
The movie is financed by Display screen Australia, VicScreen, MIFF Premiere Fund and McCorkell Brown Tasks. It’s a Good Factor Productions, Madman and Display screen Australia presentation with Madman set to launch in Australia subsequent 12 months.
Macbeth and The Snowtown Murders filmmaker Kurzel stated: “I’ve such an affection and love for the expertise of creating this movie and I couldn’t be extra thrilled that it’ll display on the London Movie Competition and other people will see the extraordinary Warren Ellis, Femke De Hass and these stunning animals.
