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Our Father Who Art In The Tree, is a French/Australian Co-Produced feature film, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg (21 Grams, the Science of Sleep, I'm Not There) as Dawn, a young Mother struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. Based on Judy Pascoe's novel of the same name, the film is written and directed by Julie Bertuccelli.

Synopsis

After the sudden loss of her much loved father, nine-year-old SIMONE shares a secret belief with her grieving Mother, Dawn. She is convinced that his spirit lives amongst the high branches of their Moreton bay Fig and he has come back from the dead to protect them. But the new bond between Mother and daughter, forged through their mutual sorrow, quickly turns to jealousy when dawn starts a relationship with GEORGE, the plumber, brought in to remove the tree's troublesome roots.

Production Written and directed by Julie Bertuccelli and produced by Sue Taylor (Taylor Media) and Yael Fogiel (Les films Du Poisson) Our Father Who Art In The Tree " ... is a film about family ties and the enduring pressures of love, in all it's various forms. creating a world that is rich in imagination but grounded in harsh realities, it is both a child's view of what could be and an adult's view of what is. The Tree symbolizes loss, hope and moving on, touching with the contemporary universal themes of mans place in nature and the power of new life over death". Sue Taylor

Writer/Director Julie Bertuccelli

Julie Bertuccelli cut her teeth as an assistant director, working with renowned directors such as krzysztof Kieslowski, bertrand Tavernier, otar Losseliani, emmanuel Finkiel and Rithy Pahn, working on Three Colours Blue (19930 and L'Appat (1995) aka The Bait.

Her directing career started with documentaries, many achieving considerable success, the most notable being, Un Monde en Fusion (2001. her feature film debut was Since Otar Left (2003), which she which she both wrote and directed, collecting the Cesar (French Oscar) for best first film in February 2004, both the great Prize of the International Critic Week and the Grand Rail d'Or for Best Feature Film at Cannes 2003, as well as the French Critic Award for best first Film in the same year.

Even after so many accolades for a first feature, it wasn't until a friend gave her Judy Pascoe's book "Our Father Who Art In The Tree" that she started imagining her second film. in 2004, she contacted Taylor Media, who owned the rights to the novel, expressing an interest in writing and directing the film.

producer Sue Taylor Sue Taylor has been a filmmaker for 25 years. After completing an honours degree in Anthropology at London University, she spent several years working in the corporate and educational sector of the industry, before pursuing a passion for documentary and drama. Her credits cover the full range of production, including documentary (Vegie Wars, Diamond’s Are A Girls’ Best Friend, Fungimentary) children’s dramas (Minty, WildKat, Southern Cross, Timetrackers), mini-series (The Shark Net) and feature film (Last Train to Freo). She has been nominated for several AFI and Logie awards and was awarded the SPAA Drama Producer of the year in 2004. Sue Taylor is currently financing the feature film Our Father Who Art In The Tree, a co-production with France, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and directed by Julie Bertuc