LA Opening of Ten Canoes

TEN CANOES
Australian Aboriginal Tale
Opens in Los Angeles, July 20, 2007

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre-11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles 310-281-8223
Tickets are $9.50 for general admission and $7.25 for seniors and children
Daily Showtimes: 5:00, 7:30 10:00; Fri - Sun 12:00 2:30 5:00, 7:30 10:00
Advance ticket purchase at: www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets and at the theatre box office.



Official Website: www.palmpictures.com

The story begins a thousand years ago – tribal times in the north of Australia. Ten men, led by old Minygululu, head into the forest to harvest barks for canoe making. It is the season of goose egg gathering, and the men are looking forward to getting out onto the swamp to hunt. Minygululu learns that his younger brother Dayindi, on his first goose egg expedition, has taken a fancy to Minygululu's third and youngest wife. Tribal law is in danger of being broken. Minygululu decides to teach his brother “the proper way” by telling him an ancient cautionary tale—a story of rivalry and respect that will take a very long time to tell, all through the next days of canoe making and swamp traveling, and one that young Dayindi will not soon forget.

A watershed in Australia in its appreciation of Aboriginal culture, TEN CANOES swept the 2006 Australian Academy Awards, including prizes for Best Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography. Like Zacharias Kunuk’s THE FAST RUNNER, it was created through a process of intense partnership. Director de Heer collaborated closely with the Ramingining Aboriginal community (many of whom appear in the film) to create the first feature made entirely in an Australian indigenous language and based on native stories. The result is a playful and spectacularly cinematic re-imagining of one of the richest oral traditions on the globe.

“The movie -- the first entirely in Australian Aboriginal languages -- is a marvel of warm collaboration and shared jokes about husbands and wives, shot both in dreamscape color and pristine black and white.” – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

“An enchanting fable rich in authenticity and shot through with unexpected humor.” – Megan Lehmann, Hollywood Reporter

“You've never seen anything like it” – Jack Matthews, New York Daily News

Winner Special Jury Prize--2006 Cannes Film Festival
Featured at Telluride and Toronto film festivals

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