Wish You Were Here film-makers among Screen Australia recipents for Memorial Day

The team behind Australian film Wish You Were Here is among seven film-making teams to receive funding from Screen Australia.

Writer director Kieran Darcy-Smith, with his Wish You Were Here producer Angie Fielder as well as Ted Hope, producer of 21 Grams and Martha Marcy May Marlene, have received a share in the $216,000 of development support from the national screen agency for their film Memorial Day.

Billed as a crime drama, Memorial Day’s synopsis reads: “Two brothers – one out of his depth in a hard world he doesn’t understand, the other recently returned from a period of self-imposed exile – struggle to redress the fallout from a past family tragedy.”

Both Darcy-Smith and Fielder have been nominated for AACTAs for Wish You Were Here.