Felicity Abbott
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Felicity Abbott is a
Background
Abbott is from Wellington, New Zealand, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia.
Education
Felicity Abbott graduated from the
Career
Abbott has designed many award-winning films. Restoration by director Cordelia Beresford, won best film in the general category of the Dendy Awards, at the Sydney Film Festival in 1999. Restoration also won the Jury Prize, Short Film Competition, at the Long Beach International Film Festival, USA, 2000.
A further collaboration between Felicity Abbott and Cordelia Beresford, The Eye Inside, won best film at both the
In 2006, Abbott completed The Catalpa Rescue (US title Irish Escape), directed by Lisa Harney for PBS (USA), ABC (Australia) & RTÉ (Ireland) and Playground for director Eve Spence. In 2007, Abbott designed the Goalpost Pictures/Channel 4 film, The Eternity Man, a film opera about the life of Australian Arthur Stace, by acclaimed British director Julien Temple. The world premiere screening of The Eternity Man was at the Sydney Opera House in June 2008 as part of the Sydney Film Festival.
Recent films include The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, directed by Michael James Rowland and produced by Nial Fulton for Essential Media & Entertainment, filmed on location in Tasmania and the feature Bran Nue Dae, directed by Rachel Perkins.
Notes
- ^ AFTRS Annual Report 98/99, Appendix 1. Archived on 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ AFTRS Annual Report 98/99, Appendix 5. Archived on 12 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- The Australian Film, Television and Radio School
- Felicity Abbott at IMDb
- Essential Media & Entertainment
- Goalpost Pictures
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