Right now, you can catch The Tree right acrosss the US, UK and Ireland with screening dates set to run until the end of the year, and more dates still to be added. To check out where you can see The Tree at a cinema near you,... read more
The Tree spreads its branches across the world with releases popping up across the globe. Tonight sees a preview screening of The Tree at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York , before the film's release on the 15th July,... read more
It’s a week of festival screenings for The Tree, with events spanning three countries and two continents. The Festival du Cinéma Australien takes place in Pézenas, France, over... read more
The 2010 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards take place this weekend at the majestic Regent Theatre in Melbourne. The Tree team are honoured to have received seven nominations for this, the Australian film industry's most... read more
Movie, Drinks & Chocolate Frogs: The Perth Premiere at Luna Leederville The Tree celebrated its Perth premiere last Thursday, 23 September, filling around 300 seats at Luna Cinemas Leederville -"a hugely successful... read more
Morgana Davies & Zoe Boe of The Tree Born and raised in Sydney, Morgana Davies has stunned audiences worldwide with her feature film debut: she plays the major role of Simone O'Neill in The Tree , the little girl... read more
20/09/2010 (Our Father Who Art In) The Tree , the book of the film, reissued in Australia this week! The Tree team are excited to announce the reissue of Judy Pascoe’s acclaimed debut novel, Our Father Who Art In The Tree... read more
A great night was had by cast, crew and local Boonah residents, when The Tree screened at the Boonah Districts Cultural Centre on Saturday night. Producer Sue Taylor, was very happy to return to the beautiful area of the Scenic... read more
The Tree screening at the Gala Opening Night of the Mission Beach Film Festival was a huge success over the weekend, led by actor and environmental campaigner Ms Daryl Hannah. Local Queenslander, and Tree star, Bob Mackay, was at... read more
"What I did on my holidays.." The Tree in French Class A close member of our Tree Family was sent a lovely, and surprising email, recently, from a friend of his who has been living in France for the past six weeks, learning the... read more
07/09/2010 Daryl Hannah (Our Favourite Tree Hugger) launches The Tree screening at Mission Beach The Tree Team are so excited that Daryl Hannah will be launching the 2010 Mission Beach Film Festival and the... read more
The Tree Soundtrack Artist: Gregoire Hetzel Whilst studying at the Conservatoire National Superior de Musique in Paris, Gregoire gained a reputation for creating musical scores for silent movies, playing the piano... read more
The Tree Soundtrack Artist: The Slippers 'Flying Foxes' 'Shiver Shiver' Christian Byers, who plays eldest son Tim in The Tree features as the guitar, organ and vocals of young band The... read more
The Tree Soundtrack Artist: The Cinematic Orchestra 'To Build a Home' Formed in the late 90's, The Cinematic Orchestra is a British Jazz and Electronic outfit who bless The Tree soundtrack with their gorgeous track... read more
Je t'aime: The Filmic Lives of Gainsbourg and Birkin Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin For decades, the Birkin - Gainsbourg family has lived music, film and fashion; exploring the taboo and delighting lovers of... read more
Asaf Avidan and the Mojos: Asaf Avidan, Ran Nir, Yoni Sheleg, Roi Peled & Hadas Kleinman 'Weak' Appearing at The Tree after party in Cannes, Asaf Avidan and the Mojos treated the guests to a live performance, featuring... read more
The Tree screening at Cinefest Oz in beautiful Busselton, Western Australia, went down a treat. Maybe it was the rapturous reception from the country crowd, maybe it was the sunny winter's day, or maybe it was the... read more
We have had many many requests, and now, yes, it is available!! The Tree soundtrack can be purchased at Itunes online here . The Soundtrack CD features the beautiful track, To Build A Home, by The Cinematic... read more
Sue Taylor, Australian producer of The Tree, was published in the Agenda section of the West Australian Newspaper this weekend, with an article on her experience of making the film. You can read the article in full below... (click... read more
A professional Arborist, known as Ekka, famous around the world for his fantastic forum on everything to do with trees, Tree World made it his mission to find, measure and classify the tree from the film, The Tree . And within a... read more
We feel very privileged to share with you the blog from Mathieu Ravier(aka Matt Riviera), our winner of the competition to travel to Paris to attend a premiere of The Tree . He has written up an engaging and detailed account... read more
The Tree The Tree opened across France today in over 220 cinemas, and received a fantastic response from the audience. Judging by the 9 am session, (attended by the French production team and Matt Ravier, our Paris comp winner) and... read more
Well, we are very excited. Why you may ask? Well if you haven’t heard already, our film The Tree has been selected as one of 19 feature films contending for an AFI award this year. The Australian Film Institute have... read more
The Tree team are very happy to announce the winner of the Paris competition. Matt Ravier from Sydney submitted the winning entry, which was judged anonymously, on the answer alone. Here is his winning answer: “Like The... read more
Where would a French/Australian coproduction most likely screen in Australia? How about Western Australia's unique French/Australian Film Festival - CinéfestOZ 10… 25th August to 29th August 2010 Hmmmm... we're... read more
A little bird in the tree tweeted that The Tree may just be appearing at MIFF also known as the Melbourne International Film Festival at the end of July 2010. Keep an eye on their website here for updates on screenings and... read more
The Tree soundtrack is blessed with the gorgeous track; To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra . Check out this video of The Cinematic Orchestra featuring Patrick Watson performing To Build A Home live!... read more
The New Zealand International Film Festival is a national event extending the cinematic options of audiences and filmmakers throughout New Zealand. A programme of between 150-170 features is presented. This festival is MASSIVE! You... read more
The Tree screened to packed houses at the beautiful, and huge, State Theatre during its run at the Sydney Film Festival. The film has been honoured to be selected in the top five of the SHOWTIME Movie Channels Audience Awards.... read more
"They clapped a lot longer than we do at the school assembly" Morgana talks about Cannes and acting in the Sun Herald. read more
For all Tree members, the closing date for the Paris comnpetition is coming up soon! You need to get your entry in before midnight on Friday 16th July 2010. The winner will be announced on Monday 19th July. The trip will be set to... read more
Q and A with The Tree... The audience are amused.... Do i spy an incognito Penne Hackforth-Jones in the crowd? Sue Taylor and Julie Bertuccelli, with presenter and host Julie Rigg The director speaks...listen to the... read more
The stylish Tree gang were displaying their snappy outfits and new hairstyles on the Red Carpet at the Sydney Film Festival last night. The wet weather didn't dampen anyone's excitement...these guys have survived cyclones together.... read more
The film print of The Tree literally arrived in Australia today under the arm of the director, Julie Bertuccelli, who landed at Sydney International Airport after a red eye flight from Paris. Julie was met at her hotel at 6 am by Ben... read more
Guests at The Tree after party, in Cannes, were treated to the wonderful sounds of Asaf Avidan and the Mojos , whose song 'Weak', features in the opening titles of the film. The Israeli band were on tour in France, so we were... read more
Montee des Marches, or The Mounted Steps , is the French term for The Red Carpet. Here are The Tree team on the march! (And by the way, Morgana, we love your shoes!!!) read more
Morgana Davies, Gabriel Gotting, Julie Bertuccelli and Zoe Boe ready to hit the red carpet! Morgana Davies and Gabriel Gotting looking sunsafe and sophisticated on the beach in Cannes! Pimp my ride! The Cannes limo ready... read more
Cannes, in Festival season, is a beautiful and crazy place. As a wise woman once said, it's a bit like the Easter Show, but without the rides and showbags! It is certainly very busy and seems to have a natural mix of choas and... read more
Wow, and when we say wow, we mean WOW!!!! Check out these absolutely BEAUTIFUL photos of the crew and cast from The Tree as they glamorously walked down THE RED CARPET for the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival. Charlotte... read more
The team turns up for the official photocall. What an attratcive and coordinated bunch. Believe it or not, no stylist was involved! read more
The Tree Cannes Press Conference Part 1 The Tree Cannes Press Conference Part 2 The Tree Cannes Press Conference Part 3 read more
Well, we are proud to say that the first night of Cannes was a success.. the ladies worked that red carpet, some even say that the fashions were more impressive than the Oscars! As we all know the opening film was Robin Hood... read more
Its currently 15 degrees, cloudy and rain is forecast over the next three days, but that is not enough to ruin the atmosphere at this years Cannes Film Festival. There have been hundreds of news articles reporting the freakish... read more
So many of you may not know this, but Christian Byers is actually in a band! Yup, and its called The Royal Slippers! or for short, The Slippers. Their music is pretty cool, actually its so cool that two of their songs are being featured... read more
Well its official.... We are very pleased to announce that The Tree will be featured in this years Sydney Film Festival. The news will only be announced on Friday 7 May, but to all you loyal members we have decided to break it to you... read more
Let me introduce you to some more of the characters from The Tree.... Mrs Johnson Penne Hackforth-Jones Penne began her career in early landmark Australian television programs such as Bellbird,... read more
From the red dust to the red carpet.... The Tree crew are more used to red dust storms than red carpet celebrities. But, yes, its true! The Tree will be the closing film at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The Tree will screen... read more
We give you a sneak peek behind the interviews where we got up close and personal to Morgana Davies and Gabriel Gotting.. AKA the two cuties from The Tree. Morgana talks about filming the big storm What happened on the... read more
An insight into the personal lives of the O'Neill family They always say its rude to open someone else's mail...well we've decided that today its okay for everyone to have a sneak peak at the O'Neill's personal records. We have... read more
Its only weeks away now until the film is finished. For the producers it has been 5 years of work, or more, so it is a very important time. We can't wait to show you a preview. Watch this space! read more
The Director of Photography, Nigel Bluck, traveled to Paris, to work on the colour grade of the film. The DOP, the Director and the Grader work together to ensure the colour on the film is consistent and reflects the mood and style that... read more
An important part of the sound edit is Foley, where a Foley Artist uses particular techniques and improvisation to recreate sounds that would be impossible to record live during production. To learn more about Foley Artistry, follow... read more
The Tree created a buzz at the Berlin Film Festival when the promo was previewed to the European Film Market by the sales agent, Memento, causing a lot of international interest. The film was pre-sold to 11 territories at the... read more
ADR, sometimes known as Automatic Dailogue Replacement or Additional Dialogue Recording, is when the actor goes into a sound studio to revoice any dialogue that may be hard to hear on the film, or may not sound just right. A studio... read more
The director now has more time and thinking space to focus on aspects other than the visual. Music has been an important part of this film from the beginning, and a major factor in the mind of the director. A film composer's work is... read more
Picture lock off was finalised today, which means that although the sound edit and visual effects can be still be worked on, the visual edit of the film muct not be changed. read more
The team are busy editing away on the visuals and sound in Paris, while the Visual Effects team are at work in Sydney, the music team are at work in Melbourne. It's a big rush to get everything ready at the right time, but it can be done. read more
Today was just another day of working on an international production, with a long Skype session between Penny, the Production Accountant, in London, and Emily, the Accounts Assistant and I in the Perth office. With all of the files and... read more
It's not every day I get a call at the office asking me to find out the dimensions of a bat, particularly not one called Jonathan! Well today, the visual effects team got in touch with just that request, so I had a chat with The Tree'... read more
Merry Christmas et Joyeux Noël! Today was a day for moving office furniture but once the desks, cabinets and boxes found their resting place we took a moment for a toast to best wishes for the festive season to all. ... read more
After coming in close contact with dust storms, floods, bushfires and cyclones during preproduction and production in Queensland, The Tree have found the winter of 2009/2010 in Europe to be a different story altogether. ... read more
The Australian producer, Sue Taylor, headed off to Paris on Saturday to join the postproduction team as they work on the picture edit over Christmas and the New Year. Sue is headed for the cold European winter to join director; Julie... read more
It's a big task to pack the pieces of a feature film into boxes, but as the production office closes and the production crew leave for well earned holidays, or other work, it has to be done. The "hero" costumes, props and set... read more
Hi, my name is Tina. I am the Producer's Assistant at Taylor Media in Perth and the main point of contact during post-production which, in this case, stretches from here to Paris, London, Sydney and Melbourne with Skype chats, late... read more
The Production Assistant is usually the first one to arrive at the office, and the last one to leave. It was true in this case, for Jasmin Lyford, the Assistant Co-ordinator, and Kat Westbrook, the Production Assistant, who locked the... read more
The last day of the full shoot was the Saturday, 17th October. It was a very sunny day and happy for all to have been involved in such a fantastic production but sad for all who had to say goodbye to the friends made over... read more
Although they're usually called upon to make things for a film, the Art Department are just as skilled when it comes to destruction! As the house was brought onto the location especially for the film, it was the perfect scenario... read more
This was a very big week for the production, with the cyclone scenes being shot (at night!). It's a very complicated process with a huge team of special effects technicians, an additional Grip and extra ELX (Electrics) crew.... read more
The action this week was focused around the visit from Uncle Jack and the three Auntys and the ongoing tension between the O'Neills and neighbour Mrs Johnson. This meant that the set was honoured with the presence of some... read more
This week the crew travelled down to Fingal Head in New South Wales to film the beach holiday scenes. There was a slight problem on 23rd September, however. The usually sunny blue sky was totally blocked out by a deep red dust... read more
After starting the week, shooting at the Rosewood Hotel , where Dawn shows off her dart skills to George, the crew returned to Boonah for a lot of tricky shots around the tree, involving a lot of gear and lifting... read more
The Tree set had a few extra special visitors this week. There were green frogs in the toilet bowl and a bat in the kitchen. A very welcome visitor, however, was the author of Our Father Who Art in The Tree , Judy Pascoe, who... read more
Apart from filming around the house this week the crew moved to Church Street in Boonah to film George's Plumber's Shop, as well as Boonah Hospital and locations in Kalbar and Harrisville. The Plumber's Shop was conveniently... read more
Week Two is over and that's 10 shooting days in the can. The scenes this week were based on the O'Neill family at home and in the tree. Everyone gets a chance to climb the tree and the cast get their first taste of green cordial! Yes,... read more
First week of shooting, hooray! Majority of the filming is on location at the house with the massive tree. The search for the perfect tree ended when the filmmakers came across a property in Kalbar, the neighbouring town to... read more
The cameras started rolling in Boonah, South East Queensland, on August 17 th and will continue until October 21 st 2009. Then we’re off to Paris to do all the editing, with a final release planned in the second half of... read more
So, I’ve been asked to be the blogger for The Tree. I’m a first time blogger, so you’ll just have to bear with me if I bore you with my stories that seem to have no point or destination. It’s a... read more
