Matching Jack won Best Film at Milan International Film Festival on Saturday 14 May. The win adds to Matching Jack‘s Milan medal tally that last week saw Nadia Tass win for Best Director and Lynne Renew and David Parker awarded Best Screenplay.
Matching Jack tells the story of a door-knocking quest by a mother, Marisa (Jacinda Barrett) to find any illegitimate children her cheating husband (Richard Roxburgh) has left in his wake, after their son Jack (Tom Russell) has been diagnosed with leukemia and she needs to find a bone marrow match.
While in hospital, Jack forms a friendship with Irish boy Finn (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in the next bed while Marisa and Finn’s father, Connor (James Nesbitt) get off on the wrong foot but eventually find mutual respect and offer strength to support their children.
Barrett and Nesbitt were also nominated for awards at Milan in Best Acting Performance Female and Male respectively.
Matching Jack tells the story of a door-knocking quest by a mother, Marisa (Jacinda Barrett) to find any illegitimate children her cheating husband (Richard Roxburgh) has left in his wake, after their son Jack (Tom Russell) has been diagnosed with leukemia and she needs to find a bone marrow match.
While in hospital, Jack forms a friendship with Irish boy Finn (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in the next bed while Marisa and Finn’s father, Connor (James Nesbitt) get off on the wrong foot but eventually find mutual respect and offer strength to support their children.
Barrett and Nesbitt were also nominated for awards at Milan in Best Acting Performance Female and Male respectively.
- 5/18/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Australian film Matching Jack has received three awards at the Milan International Film Festival this week. The powerful drama.won Best Film,.Nadia Tass was awarded Best Director,.while Lynne Renew and David Parker walked away with Best Screenplay. The film, shot over six weeks in Melbourne,.stars James Nesbitt, Jacinda Barrett and Richard Roxburgh. The story centres around Marisa (Barrett) and the unshakable bond she has with her seriously ill son Jack (Tom Russell). Desperate to save Jack.s life, Marisa must sift through her husband.s (Roxburgh) serial affairs in hope of finding an illegitimate child who will be a biological match to her son. The film was critically well-received but posted a disappointing box office performance of $852,276 last...
- 5/13/2011
- by Milana Vulovic
- IF.com.au
Nadia Tass has received the Best Director award for Matching Jack at the Milan International Film Festival, while Lynne Renew and David Parker were awarded Best Screenplay.
Tass was competing agains Juanita Wilson (As If I’m Not There), Slava Ross (Siberia Monamour), Justin Chadwick (The First Grader) and Jake Scott (Welcome to the Rileys).
The film was released in Australia by Twentieth Century Fox, grossing $807,000 during its cinema run. It has also played at the recent London Australian Film Festival, as well as Palm Beach International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, Internationales Filmwochenende Wurzburg (Germany), Tiburon International Film Festival and Newport Beach Film Festival. this week, it will screen as part of Cannes Cinephile – hosted by Cannes Antipodes.
Tass was competing agains Juanita Wilson (As If I’m Not There), Slava Ross (Siberia Monamour), Justin Chadwick (The First Grader) and Jake Scott (Welcome to the Rileys).
The film was released in Australia by Twentieth Century Fox, grossing $807,000 during its cinema run. It has also played at the recent London Australian Film Festival, as well as Palm Beach International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, Internationales Filmwochenende Wurzburg (Germany), Tiburon International Film Festival and Newport Beach Film Festival. this week, it will screen as part of Cannes Cinephile – hosted by Cannes Antipodes.
- 5/11/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
Director Nadia Tass is hard to match, with her multifaceted career and her will to pursue a project, even if it takes 10 years like Matching Jack – her first Australian film in 13 years.
Matching Jack is the story of a woman (Jacinda Barrett) whose marriage falls apart just as her child (Tom Russell) is diagnosed with leukaemia. She begins a search for potential bone-marrow donors, including the offspring that her husband’s (Richard Roxburgh) infidelities may or may not have produced. She also shares a connection with the father (James Nesbitt) of another sick child (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
As personal as the film feels, it was not inspired by an event in Tass’s life; it is, in her words, an observation of how families are strengthened or dissipated once a traumatic event – such as cancer – comes into their lives.
“I’m interested in exploring the change that happens in life as a result of a catalyst,...
Matching Jack is the story of a woman (Jacinda Barrett) whose marriage falls apart just as her child (Tom Russell) is diagnosed with leukaemia. She begins a search for potential bone-marrow donors, including the offspring that her husband’s (Richard Roxburgh) infidelities may or may not have produced. She also shares a connection with the father (James Nesbitt) of another sick child (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
As personal as the film feels, it was not inspired by an event in Tass’s life; it is, in her words, an observation of how families are strengthened or dissipated once a traumatic event – such as cancer – comes into their lives.
“I’m interested in exploring the change that happens in life as a result of a catalyst,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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