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'Dingo' mint print at Sydney Film Festival

The National Film and Sound
Archive (NFSA) is proud to support
the 2011 Sydney Film Festival by
providing a brand new print of the
1991 film Dingo. Twenty years have
passed sice Rolf de Heer’s Dingo –-
starring Colin Friels and Miles Davis
in his only feature film role –- first
hit the screens, winning Best Music
and Sound at the 1991 AFI Awards.

The NFSA is delighted to confirm
the film’s Director, Rolf de Heer,
will introduce the new preservation
print at its premier screening at 2pm
Colin Friels and Miles Davis in 'Dingo’ (1991) on Saturday 18 June at the Art
Gallery of New South Wales.

The brand new print of Dingo is a product of the Deluxe/Kodak preservation project which has run
over the past 10 years. The NFSA, along with its partners Deluxe Sydney and Kodak Australasia, has
a dedicated strategy in place to preserve, and make available to contemporary audiences, new prints
of significant Australian colour feature films made in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Film repair and
preservation work is only possible at specialist film laboratories, such as those at the NFSA and
Deluxe Sydney. The partnership encompasses the preservation of 75 Australian feature films.

'It’s a pleasure to once again be involved with the vibrant and highly successful Sydney Film
Festival,’ said Acting CEO Ann Landrigan. 'The Festival creates yet another opportunity for
Australian classics to be taken out of the vaults and onto the screen. And it is only through initiatives
like the Deluxe/Kodak preservation project that contemporary audiences have the opportunity to view
Australian classics –- such as Dingo –- the same way people did when the film was first released –-
pure quality film projected in the way it was originally intended.’

Dingo is set in the late ‘60s, in an Australian outback town. Young John Anderson (Colin Friels) is
captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross (Davis) and his band when they perform on the local airstrip
after their plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking
dingos and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy in Paris.

Miles Davis suggested to Rolf de Heer that he co-write the film’s rippling score with legendary film
composer Michel Legrand, aiming to 'rediscover the sound, the ambience of my cool period, the style
of Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain and Milestones.’

Dingo is rated PG screening at the Art Gallery of NSW on Saturday 18 June at 2pm. Tickets can be
purchased online at www.sff.org.au, via the Box Office (02 9690 5390) or over the counter at Dendy
Opera Quays (10am-5pm). More details on the Sydney Film Festival at www.sff.org.au

Source: NFSA website
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