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Produced by Outlaw Pictures (Australia) and Outlaw Pictures (Canada) in Association with Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Life Network, Discovery Health, IFC: Independent Film Channel, YLE Teema and with the Participation of Canadian Television Fund - created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry – CTF: Licence Fee Program. Developed with the assistance of The Australian Film Commission and The NSW Film and Television Office. An Australian - Canadian Co-production. © 2005 Outlaw Pictures Pty Ltd. (Australia) and Outlaw Pictures (Canada) Inc. |
For Immediate Release: August 21, 2003 Australian Filmmaker Shares A Personal Journey And Captures The World With Her Adventures. A film "Renaissance woman," Oren Siedler's path through the medium has taken her from the court of "kitsch king" John Waters to commercials in Australia and - with her new film Bruce And Me - to the most personal, soul-bearing edge of documentary filmmaking. A then-and-now chronicle of life on the road with her outlaw dad, Bruce And Me addresses a lifetime of mixed emotions about a grifter childhood straight out of Paper Moon. The funny and sad film has amounted to a personal epiphany, a realization by Oren that reliving her bizarre story could offer up answers - and new questions - to her decades of soul-searching. With the support of her family (including her wayward father Bruce), Oren revisited her outlaw adventures and travelled the world, filming her now-farflung family. Her probing questions about Bruce and her gene pool peeled away layer after layer of insight into a family that could have been made up by Kerouac. Shepherded by sought-after Canadian producer, Ed Barreveld, Bruce and Me is an Australian/Canadian co-production and was the "buzz" project at the 2003 AIDC (Australian International Documentary Conference). It has since attracted support and serious interest from various national and international broadcasters and distributors, including ABC Australia; Life Network, Canada; YLE, Finland; ZDF, Germany. The film also appeared as a "pitch" project invitee at the 2003 Toronto International Documentary Festival as part of the Toronto Documentary Forum. The pitch generated widespread delegate interest and was the talk of the festival. Oren is now in post production on Bruce And Me, and continuing to "find herself" as she pores over footage. Whatever the final cut reveals, Oren Siedler has served notice of her status as a filmmaker to watch.
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