HAIL /

m // Close friend and travel partner, costume designer ZOHIE CASTELLANO, has recently worked on the AUSTRALIAN feature film HAIL, directed by the very talented AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON and produced by MICHAEL CODY. The film has received great reviews and was selected for Official Competition in the Orrizonti section as part of VENIZE FILM FESTIVAL, the first Australian dramatic feature in nearly ten years... The whole cast and crew of the film came down for the festival and we were fortunate to spend some time with them at the end of our stay. During dinner one evening DANNY proposed to LEANNE at the table, and they are now set to marry after the end of the festival. Romantic Venezia!

'Dan is in love with Leanne. They were born on the same day: November 6, 1960. They eat together. They live together. They steal together. When Dan’s love is suddenly ripped away from him, he is reduced to savagery. Dan swallows. Dan tries to sleep. Dan tries to hide. Suffocating and filled with violence, Dan thrashes against the tide and goes on a journey to take back what is his. The past is not a dead thing – it may return, like a hunter, to follow us for a time.'
(synopsis taken from the biennale site)

HAIL TEASER from HAIL on Vimeo.