EXCLUSIVE: Ocsar-nominated Shine director Scott Hicks‘ initiatives aboout musician Ben Folds have been taken on for distribution by Banijay Rights.
The director’s options will world-premiere on the Adelaide Movie Competition later this month and see Hicks mix with celebrated producers Kerry Heysen and Jett Heysen-Hicks.
Impressed by the twenty fifth anniversary of Shine, which starred Geoffrey Rush as a pianist who suffered a psychological breakdown and spent years in establishments, The Musical Thoughts: A Portrait in Course of explores the facility of the musical mind. Hicks reveals the inventive technique of elite worldwide musicians specializing in Shine topic David Helfgott, Australian rock star Daniel Johns, Shine star Simon Tedeschi and Folds.
The latter is the topic of My Title’s Ben Folds, I Play Piano, a symphonic live performance spectacle that includes the Emmy-nominated composer with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The movie presents distinctive protection of the rock pianist together with the creation of a brand new track from scratch, dwell onstage, by way of viewers participation when Folds induces the gang to sing a choral chorus in three-part concord.
Each options are Past Could 30 Leisure productions in affiliation with Banijay Rights and will probably be shopped by Banijay Rights at Mipcom Cannes over the approaching days.
“These are two distinctive and extremely entertaining premium documentary options that showcase world class musical expertise and the interior workings of their craft,” mentioned Banijay RIghts CEO Cathy Payne. “Each are wonderful additions to our Mipcom line-up and we’re in little question they are going to be extremely wanted by worldwide patrons in Cannes.”
Hicks added: “I’m delighted to be working with Banijay Rights on the discharge of my newest music-based documentary options, celebrating celebrity musicians of their non-public worlds and exploring their distinctive inventive processes.”
Banijay Rights can be promoting the likes of Moulin Rouge: Sure We Can Can, Eva Longoria: Trying to find Mexico and Stanley Tucci: Trying to find Italy at Mipcom.
