One Night the Moon

One Night the Moon is a 2001 Australian musical nonfeature film starring husband and wife team Paul Kelly, a singersongwriter, and Kaarin Fairfax, a film and television actress, and their daughter Memphis Kelly. Directed by Rachel Perkins and written by Perkins with John Romeril, it was filmed on Andyamathanha land in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia for six weeks in early 2000. Kelton Pell portrayed an Aboriginal tracker, Albert Yang with Ruby Hunter playing his wife, who searches for the missing child. Musical score was by Kelly, Kev Carmody and Mairead Hannan, and with other artists they also contributed to the soundtrack. The film won ten awards, including two Australian Film Institute AFI Awards.

Set in the 1930s Australian Outback, starring singer Paul Kelly as a farmer, Jim Ryan, newly settled in the area. He is the father of a girl, Emily Memphis Kelly, his real life daughter, who climbs out the window of their farmhouse one night and follows the moon into the hills. Rose Ryan Kellys then wife Kaarin Fairfax and mother of Memphis comes to check on her daughter only to find that Emily is missing.The Ryans get the local police, led by a sergeant Chris Haywood, to search for her, but when their Aboriginal tracker, Albert Yang Kelton Pell arrives, the father says he does not want any blacks on his land. Jim Ryan and the white police go searching for Emily, destroying evidence Albert could have used to find the girl. The white men cannot find her, eventually Rose goes to Alberts hut and together they go looking for Emily, they find her dead in the hills and bring her body back home. Alberts wife Ruby Hunter sings the funeral song for the lost child, whilst their own child is missing as part of the Stolen Generations taken by white authorities. Jim blames himself for not finding Emily and commits suicide. ........

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