Director
Priscilla Cameron
Starring
Melissa George, Ed Oxenbould, Ewen Leslie, Sophie Lowe
Certificate
15
Run Time
97 mins
Release Year
2017
Country of Origin
Australia
Language
English
Director of Photography: Jason Hargreaves
Editor: Rodrigo Balart
Produced by: Bridget Callow-Wright
Music: Caitlin Yeo
Screenplay by: Priscilla Cameron
Production Designer: Charlie Shelley
Sound Production: Emma Bortignon
Director Bio
Priscilla Cameron
P&I - Director Bio
The Butterfly Tree is Priscilla Cameron’s debut feature film as writer/director. She has a number of projects in development, including The Breathing Sea as co-writer and director, Man-Shy as writer, Croak and Thunderbolt and I as co-writer, and TV series Group and Rodeo School as writer. Her short films have won awards, screened in national and international festivals and have been sold nationally and internationally.
The Butterfly Tree
When burlesque-performer-turned-florist Evelyn (Melissa George) arrives in an Australian town, she beguiles 13-year-old Fin (Ed Oxenbould, excellent as a troubled youngster) and his teacher father, Al (Ewen Leslie). Father and son are struggling to cope with the loss of Fin’s mother and quick to warm to Evelyn’s charms. Writer/director Priscilla Cameron’s film is rich with atmosphere and idealism, and Melissa George is charismatic as a romanticised woman who cannot live up to the expectations of men, but who represents the hope of finding a way out of sadness.