The Butterfly Tree
Priscilla Cameron
15
97 mins
2017
Australia
English
Melissa George, Ed Oxenbould, Ewen Leslie, Sophie Lowe
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
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.
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.