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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2008 - 18.26 July

Sections & Films

AUGUST RUSH

Category: Edition 2008

Synopsis

Lyla Novacek, a brilliant young cellist, after a party in New Yorks Washington Square, spends a wonderful night with Louis, a guitar player. After that night Lyla will never meet him again because her father forces her to dedicate herself completely to music. But Lyla is pregnant. At the end of her pregnancy she has a car accident. While she is unconscious, she gives birth to her baby whom her father sends to a foster home, pretending he died. Eleven years after, the little August, who was born with the gift to hear music all around him, believes that he will find his parents if they only hear his music.

Original Title AUGUST RUSH
Italian Title LA MUSICA NEL CUORE – AUGUST RUSH
Category Out of competition
Section Reload
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 100'
Production Year 2007
Nationality USA
Directed by Kirsten Sheridan
Screenplay Nick Castle, James V. Hart
Script Paul Castro, Nick Castle
Director of photography John Mathieson
Editor William Steinkamp
Production Design Michael Shaw
Costume Design Frank Fleming
Music Mark Mancina
Main cast Freddie Highmore (August)
Keri Russell (Lyla)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Louis)
Terrence Howard (Richard)
William Sadler (Thomas)
Jamia Simone (Nash Hope)
Produced by Richard Barton Lewis

august rush regKirsten Sheridan

After studying film at the New York University Script Writing School, University College, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, Kirsten Sheridan went on to receive the Film Institute of Ireland/Guinness Outstanding Young Irish Talent Award. Her first feature length screenplay HONOR BRIGHT won the Miramax Best Irish Screenplay Award ’98 and development funding from the Irish Film Board and the European Script Fund. As well as directing commercials, writing the TV film CHRISTOPHER’S TENEMENT and writing a feature film entitled THE KID, she has written and directed several award-winning short films such as PATTERNS and THE CASE OF MAJELLA MCGINTY. DISCO PIGS, his first feature film was selected at the GFF 2002.

Production

Southpaw Entertainment

 

Italian distribution
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