Country UK Running Time 90 mins Format DV CAM Director/ Producer Clive Collier Featuring Lisa Gerrard, Russell Crowe Print Source Storm Creation Ltd Email clive@storm-creation.co.uk Website www.storm-creation.co.uk
‘Music is a place to take refuge. It’s a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It’s innocent and it’s a place you can lose yourself in thoughts and memories and intricacies’.
From her beginnings in Melbourne, Australia to the creation of the cult band Dead Can Dance during the 80s and her recent successes as a film composer scoring films, Lisa Gerrard’s voice and music draws the individual and collective emotions of her audience to the surface.
When as a child she decided she wanted to learn to sing, the teacher told her mother: ‘I can’t train her voice, I don’t know where it’s coming from’. Lisa’s voice is completely untrained. She can create sounds that if you didn’t know who was singing you would be sure came from a different body. And when she sings, you may not hear words you can understand but her language is an expression of her very soul.
Sanctuary is a well-produced intimate portrait of woman and the music she creates. We are given insights and anecdotes from the people who know or have worked with her such as Michael Mann, Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott and long time Dead Can Dance collaborator, Brendan Perry. If you don’t know Lisa Gerrard you will come away wanting to hear more. If you do know her music you will be fascinated to meet the woman behind the sound. JvF
ALL ACCESS RAINDANCE FESTIVAL PASS
All screenings take place at the CineWorld, Trocadero Centre, Piccadilly, London W1
except Opening and Closing Night - CineWorld Haymarket
Access all areas:
- ticket to the Opening Night Gala screening of BROTHERS OF THE HEAD + the After Show Party (live music, and free booze)
- 80 of the best independent feature films
*150 short films (including animation, documentary and experimental strands)
- Q & A with film producers and
directors
- networking opportunities
- meet the people who decide what movies get made: Live Ammunition! (the super pitch event)
- exclusive tickets to Stanley Kubrick screenings and events
- four monster parties (Opening - Sept 27th, Sept 29th, October 3rd and Closing Night)
- ten industry panel seminars
- a FREE commemorative Raindance Festival Tee Shirt (while supplies last)
