Previous Sessions | Photo Gallery | Registration | Site Map Home About Us Regulations News & Press Sections Prizes Conference Schedule Theaters Contacts Festival Sections Guest of Honor : The British Cinema WALKABOUT Synopsis: A teenage English girl and her young brother are driven into the Australian outback by their father who is suffering from a mental breakdown. He tries to shoot his children during a picnic, but ultimately misses and shoots himself in the head. The children, now stranded in the desert, strike out in search for the nearest civilization. They meet a teenage aborigine boy who is on walkabout, a rite of passage requiring him to survive on his own for six months as an initiation to manhood. He readily helps them to survive in the outback. DIRECTOR’S CV: Nicolas Roeg was born in 1928 in London, England. He is an internationally known cinematographer and director. He contributed to the visual design of Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia and Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death. His exceptional visual technique as well as his foreboding sense of atmosphere have greatly influenced later filmmakers such as Ridley Scott and François Ozon. Among his works: Performance - 1970, The Man who Fell to Earth – 1976, Don’t Look Now – 1973, Puffball – 2006 and Adina – 2007. Director : Nicolas Roeg Cast : Jenny Agutter Luc Roeg David Gulpilil Production : 1971 Time : 1h36 © 2007 LINKdotNET, All Rights Reserved Developed by Link Development, a LINKdotNET subsidiary.