Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Elissa Down won the 2008 AFI Award for Best Direction for her direction of The Black Balloon.
Personal Awards
- 2012 recipient Aurora Script Workshop for Mr & Mrs Montague,
Awards for Works
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form
y
The Black Balloon
( dir. Elissa Down
)
Australia
:
Black Balloon Productions
,
2008
Z1481112
2008
single work
film/TV
'When Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to a new home and he has to start at a new school, all he wants is to fit in. When his pregnant mother (Toni Collette) has to take things easy, his father Simon (Erik Thomson) puts him in charge of his autistic older brother Charlie (Luke Ford). Thomas, with the help of his new girlfriend Jackie (Gemma Ward), faces his biggest challenge yet. Charlie’s unusual antics take Thomas on an emotional journey that causes his pent-up frustrations about his brother to pour out - in a story that is funny, confronting, and ultimately heart-warming. The Black Balloon is a story about fitting in, discovering love and accepting your family.'
Source: Screen Australia.
- 2008 winner Asia Pacific Screen Awards — Best Children's Feature Film
- 2008 inaugural winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
- 2008 winner Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Film
- 2007 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Scripts
- 2008 winner Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Original Screenplay
- 2008 winner Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Film
- 2008 shortlisted Inside Film Awards — Best Script
- 2008 shortlisted Inside Film Awards — Best Feature Film
- 2008 winner AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Feature — Original
- 2008 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
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