End of the Rainbow continues to have international success on the festival circuit with its selection into the French Selection of Cinema du Reel 2008.
End of the Rainbow is the directorial debut of AFTRS graduate Robert Nugent. Written by Rachel Sanderson and produced by Mitzi Goldman, Jean Pierre Gibrat and Michel Zwecker, it is an Australian/French co-production and recently won the First Appearance Award at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) – a first for an Australian film.
The film has been described as a ‘critical and multi-faceted story of globalisation’ by IDFA Jury Chair Arik Bernstein. It is the first Australian film selected to screen at Cinema du Reel since 2003.
Cinema du Reel runs 7–18 March 2008 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
End of the Rainbow
(83 mins)
Production company: Looking Glass Pictures and Trans Europe Film
Producers: Mitzi Goldman, Jean-Pierre Gibrat, Michel Zwecker
Director: Robert Nugent
Writer: Rachel Sanderson
International sales: Doc & Co
Finance: ARTE France, ITVS, SBSI, FFC
Synopsis: End of the Rainbow is an elegiac portrait of the changes brought about by the arrival of an industrial gold mine in a remote region of West Africa, and is a testament to the universal human desire for a better life.
[release from the AFC]