Celeste was once Australia’s most beloved opera singer. Yet she threw it all away to follow the man she loved to live on a crumbling property deep in the rainforests of Tropical North Queensland. Ten years after his tragic death, Celeste is ready to make one final return to the stage. But her stepson Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives at her behest amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. But when she asks Jack for an impossible favour, the secrets that drove them apart explode back into rhapsodic life.
The idea behind 'Swinging Safari' had been bouncing around Stephan Elliott’s head for “about 40 years”. The upcoming comedy is an irreverent take on the era of the writer-director’s childhood: 1970s Australia.
'Celeste', the latest feature from director Ben Hackworth, will start shooting next week in far north Queensland.
Principal photography will start next Monday on Flammable Children, the latest film from writer-director Stephan Elliott.
Filming will begin on the south-east coast of Queensland in October.
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A short film starring US based Australian actress Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland, Silent Hill), French/American actor Jean-Marc Barr (The Big Blue, Nymphomaniac) and iconic Francophile English actress/singer Jane Birkin (Blow-Up, La Belle Noiseuse) is