First-time director up for Cannes honour
By Annie on April 20, 2011 • Categories: Articles, Films • Comment?
JULIA LEIGH had never been behind a camera before but that has not stopped her debut feature, Sleeping Beauty, being selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
Nor had the Sydney author made so much as a short film. ”No, nothing at all. No Tropfest,” said Leigh, who has won literary prizes and nominations for her novels, The Hunter and Disquiet.
”I had to prove to a lot of people that I had a definite vision and I did an amazing amount of preparation. I read film scripts, went to an actors’ workshop and observed a friend on a TV set. I watched a lot of films that I loved with the sound turned down. I would ask myself, ‘Where is the camera?”’
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