Miracle Fish
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Miracle Fish |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 17 minutes |
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| Director | Luke Doolan |
| script | Luke Doolan |
| production | Drew Bailey |
| music | Frank Tetaz |
| camera | Brad Shield |
| cut | Luke Doolan |
| occupation | |
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Miracle Fish is a 2009 Australian short film directed by Luke Doolan .
action
It's Joe's 8th birthday and he's being driven to school by his mother. The father is in the hospital, but the mother says that he put a little surprise in his lunch box. Joe is disinterested in the school lesson in which roles are assigned for a fairytale performance of Cinderella . During the break, he opens his lunch box and finds a so-called miracle fish in it . If you put the plastic fish on your hand, it will move. The shape created in this way can be deciphered via an enclosed declaration and thus predict its future. Joe's fish rolls around and means “compassion”. Shortly afterwards, two schoolmates want to know what he has been given and he invents expensive presents, but the two boys expose him to be a liar because it is known that the family is living on the subsistence level. Joe runs away. Depressed, he goes to the doctor's room and falls asleep.
He wakes up just before 1 p.m. The school building is empty. On the floor he discovers a book about an alien abduction. After a short time, Joe enjoys the empty school, drives down the school aisle on a skateboard, rummages through the rooms and pastes award stickers that the teacher keeps in her desk. Suddenly he hears a cell phone ringing. He answers and a man answers and tells Joe to hide as quickly as possible. During the phone call, a young man is standing in the door with a gun in hand: the silence was the result of a rampage . Joe, on the other hand, cannot grasp the situation for what it is. The man has blood splatters on his clothes and Joe wants to know if he's injured. When the man talks incoherently about money issues, Joe offers him some sweets that he had previously put in the sickroom. He shows the man the Mirale Fish and puts it on his hand to determine his future. The fish does not move and Joe reads the statement that this means "dead one". Shortly afterwards, the gunman was shot dead by members of the police Tactical Response Group. TRG cops storm the room and carry Joe away, who casts a compassionate look at the dead gunman.
production
Miracle Fish was the first collaboration between director Luke Doolan and producer Drew Bailey. The film was made within three days in October 2008 at Matraville Sports High School and Annandale North Public School, which Doolan's little sister attends. Costumes and film constructions come from Helen Frank . The film ran on January 16, 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival .
Awards (selection)
Miracle Fish won the 2009 Sydney Film Festival Award for Best Australian Short Film. In 2010 he received an Oscar nomination for Best Short Film .
Web links
- Miracle Fish in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Garry Maddox: Sleepless in LA, and then the Oscars call-up . smh.com.au, February 3, 2010.