Facing the Music (2001 film)

Facing the Music (2001) is an Australian documentary film directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson about the wish of some staff members to keep the University of Sydney Department of Music alive in the face of budget overspending.

Facing the Music
Directed byBob Connolly
Robin Anderson
StarringAnne Boyd, Winsome Evans
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The film features a music professor (Anne Boyd) struggling to run a dysfunctional department amidst budget pressures. She has no training or capacity for the fundraising that is required. The film won the Cinematic Intelligence Agency Trenchcoat Awards 2002 for best documentary or true drama, Film Critics Circle of Australia 2002 for Best Australian documentary, and the Awards 2001 for Best Documentary.

At the end of 2004, the Music Department was merged with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. [1]

Box office

Facing the Music grossed $182,901 at the box office in Australia.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Dean of discord". The Australian. 2008.
  2. "Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2010.


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