Country: Australia
Language: English
Year: 2006
Running Time: 85 min
The award-winning HUNT ANGELS is a non-fiction feature film about Rupert Kathner and Alma Brooks who in 1939 began a movie making spree that took on the powerful cinema conglomerates, a corrupt police commissioner, the cultural cringe and a police posse all in their passionate pursuit to make the great Australian film.
HUNT ANGELS uses an innovative digital composite technique whereby the characters come alive in the real world of Sydney in the 30s and 40s. The performances are filmed in period settings and against green screen, the choreography of movement and lighting having been matched to background elements, and then inserted into striking b/w archival photographs which have been manipulated to appear as three dimensional space.
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Director
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Alec Morgan
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Producer
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Sue Maslin
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Executive Producer
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Antonio Zeccola
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Co- Producer
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Alec Morgan
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Co- Producer
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Daryl Dellora
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Production Company
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Film Art Doco
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In Association With
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BluSteal Films
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Screenplay
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Alec Morgan
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Cinematography
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Jackie Farkas
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Production Designer
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Tony Campbell
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Composer
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Jen Anderson
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Editor
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Tony Stevens
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Sound Supervisor
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Andrew Plain
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Costume
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Margot Wilson
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Ben Mendelsohn
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Eloise Oxer
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Julie Herbert
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Robert Bruning
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Vicoria Hill
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AFI Award: Best Cinematography in a Documentary/ Best Documentary/ Best Visual Effects
FCCA Award: Best Australian Feature Documentary
EFM 2007, official selection Rotterdam 2007
Alec Morgan is one of Australia's most experienced documentary filmmakers whose productions have screened on ABCTV and internationally. His credits include the multi-award winning LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE (1983), a seminal film that exposed the taking of Aboriginal children from their families, ADMISSION IMPOSSIBLE (1992) an investigation into the controversial White Australia immigration policies, and THE END OF THE EARTH (1990), winner of the Gold Medal for Best Environmental Film at the 1990 New York Film Festival. His short film directing credits include OLD FELLA NOW, (1980) winner of Best Short Film at the Adelaide Film Festival, and he scripted the comedy, DUSTY HEARTS (1990), winner of Best Short Film at the 1991 Asia-Pacific film festival. He was Creative Head of the television series OUR CENTURY (1999) for the Television Nine Network and a co-producer of THE SECRET COUNTRY (1988) a series that uncovered Australia's secret history. HUNT ANGELS is his first feature film.
2006 HUNT ANGELS
1992 ADMISSION IMPOSSIBLE
1990 THE END OF THE EARTH
1983 LOUSY LITTLE SIXPENCE