New Zealand filmmaker Larry Parry's Fracture will have its North American premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival in Canada next month.
The New Zealand Film Commission said today several short films from New Zealand had also been selected for the festival, which runs from August 26 to September 6.
Festival vice-president Daniele Cauchard said the selection committee was "particularly taken with the strength and spunkiness" of Fracture's main character, a solo mother played by Kate Elliott.
Parr wrote and directed the movie, which is based on Maurice Gee's novel, Crime Story. His adaptation mixes crime, family intrigue and an expensive property development planned for Wellington's waterfront.
Fracture had its New Zealand premiere in the World Cinema Showcase, screened in major centres, earlier this year. It has also been shown at the Taormina Festival, in Sicily, and has been selected for the Hof Festival in Germany in October. It goes on general release in New Zealand in September.
While Parr was shooting the movie in Wellington in 2002, his film company Kahukura Productions collapsed. It later went into liquidation with debts of $1.5 million, affecting the completion and release of Fracture (then called Crime Story), and two other films.
The Film Commission stepped in to cover costs to ensure Fracture was finished. As well as Elliott, Fracture features newcomer Jared Turner, Whale Rider star Cliff Curtis and Australian actor John Noble, who played Denethor in The Return of the King.
The cast also includes Miranda Harcourt, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Paul Glover, Liddy Holloway, Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Alistair Browning, Michael Hurst and Julian Arahanga.
- NZPA
NZ film 'Fracture' bound for Montreal World Film Festival
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