In 1932, a young girl went missing in the Australian outback...
One night, in the Australian outback in the early 1930s, a young girl (MEMPHIS KELLY) steps out of her bedroom window - entranced by the beautiful, beaming moon. When her parents go to check on their sleeping child, she is nowhere to be found.
The mother (KAARIN FAIRFAX) and father (PAUL KELLY), recent settlers in the rugged landscape, spend the night looking for her. To no avail. By early morning, the father turns to the local police for help. The Sergeant (CHRIS HAYWOOD) suggests that Allman (DAVID FIELD) and their very best man, Aboriginal tracker Albert (KELTON PELL) set out to find her. But the father revolts - insisting "no blackfella is to set foot on my land."
Instead, he gathers together as many white men as he can find, and conducts a line search across the desolate plains in search of the child. Albert watches helplessly as her every trace is stamped to dust.
Sometime later, the daughter is still missing, and the mother makes a decision to take responsibility into her own hands, to reconcile the loss of her child. She goes to find Albert.
ONE NIGHT THE MOON is based on the true story of Aboriginal Tracker Riley in Dubbo in the 1930s, who was awarded the King's Medal for his services to the Police Force. His grandson, Michael Riley, directed the documentary Black Tracker in 1997, which became the inspiration for ONE NIGHT THE MOON.
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Awards
Winner - Best Musical - Rachel Perkins
Winner - Best Cinematography in a Short Film - Kim Batterham
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2001
Winner - Best Feature - Rachel Perkins
MOONDANCE FILM FESTIVAL COLORADO 2002
Winner - Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature Film
- Kim Batterham
Winner - Best Original Score - Mairead Hannan, Kev Carmody, Paul Kelly
AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE (AFI) AWARDS 2001
Winner - Best Television Original
- John Romeril with Rachel Perkins
Winner - The Golden AWGIE
- John Romeril with Rachel Perkins
AUSTRALIAN WRITERS' GUILD'S 2001 AWGIE AWARDS
Winner - Gold Award - Kim Batterham
AUSTRALIAN CINEMATOGRAPHERS SOCIETY (ACS)
Winner - Special Acknowledgment Award
CRITICS CIRCLE OF AUSTRALIA 2002
Nominated - Best Director - Rachel Perkins
Nominated - Best Editing - Karen Johnson
2001 IF AWARDS - THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS
Winner - Best Soundtrack Album
2002 APRA - AGSC Screen Music Awards
Festivals
Moscow International Film Festival
Moscow, June 2002
Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin, February, 2002
Cannes Cinephile Section Cannes Film Festival
May, 2002
Sundance Film Festival
USA, January 2002
Toronto International Film Festival
Canada, September 2002
Vancouver International Film Festival
Canada, October,2002
Moondance International Film Festival
Colorado USA, January 2002
Newport International Film Festival
New York USA, June 2003
Seoul International Women's Festival
South Korea, April 2002
Arizona Film Festival
USA April, 2002
Hawaii International Film Festival
Hawaii USA, November 2001
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival
USA, September 2001
Raindance International Film Festival
London U.K. October 2002
Mill Valley International Film Festival
California USA, 2001
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Festival
New York USA, October 2001
Ethnofilmfest
Germany, 2001
Calgary Film Festival
Canada, October, 2002
London Australian Film Festival
London, February, 2003
Sarajevo International Film Festival
Sarajevo, August, 2002
Atlantic Film Festival
Halifax, Nova Scotia, September, 2002
Hampton's International Film Festival
New York, USA October, 2002
Jakarta International Film Festival
Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2002
Melbourne International Film Festival
Australia, August 2001
Brisbane International Film Festival
Australia, August 2001
Perth Film Festival
Australia, March, 2002
Message Sticks Festival
Opening Night Film of Blak Screen/Blak Sounds Film Festival
Australia, June 2001
Australian Consulate, Seoul
September,2002
Special screening for Department of Foreign Affairs
The Asia Society, New York,
USA, October,2002
Indigenous Film Presentation (Australian Film Commission)
The Smithsonian Institute Museum of the American Indian
Special screening in Sante Fe, New Mexico and New York, USA
August & October, 2002
Dreamtraces Film Program
Duke of York's Cinema, Brighton, UK, May 2003
African Diaspora Film Festival,
New York, USA. 2002
Zanzibar International Film Festival
Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, July 2003
Cheltenham International Festival of Music
Cheltenham, UK, July 2003
Rocky Mountains Womens Film Festival
Colorado, USA, November 2003
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
Guangzhou, China, December 2003
