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Channelling Baby

Christine PARKER

New Zealand1999 92min color

Synopsis

It is 1971. New Zealand soldiers are heading off to Vietnam amidst hordes of peace protesters and the heady excitement of a solar eclipse. In a column of soldiers stopped to board a military truck, Geoff catches sight of Bunnie, a beautiful hippy whose glorious, intimate smile is the lasting vision he takes with her. Destiny brings the pair together a second time, when Geoff returns from Vietnam a few months later. Each has been badly hurt in different ways, but in spite of their personal damage, they fall instantly and passionately in love. They start a life together and Bunnie gives birth to a baby girl. Their live should be joyously complete, but one day, Geoff and the baby mysteriously disappear, leaving Bunnie devastated. Years later, in the 1990? Bunnie accepts help from Cassandra, a young woman who claims to be a clairvoyant and her strange brother Tony, to find out what has become of her child. Cassandra brings the couple back together again to solve the mystery of what really happened. Their memories are startlingly different, but pieced together, the truth emerges, bringing escalating consequences. (production notes)

Diretor

Christine PARKER

She studied drama and literature at university but after graduating spent several years singing in bands and working as a freelance graphic designer. In 1990 she discovered the NZ film industry when she participated in recording music for a short time. Christine directed two one-hour television dramas before writing her first feature film Channelling Baby. Films : Peach (1995)