Claire McCarthy
2021artist, and has been making internationally acclaimed short films and
documentaries for over a decade.
A directing graduate of the
Australian Film TV and Radio School (2001), Claire has written, directed
and produced a number of documentaries and short films in Australia,
India, Germany and Mexico including Australian Film Commission fully
funded short film Skin (2006), The Find (2006), City Edge (2005),
Starbaby (2002), Panopticon (2001), Square Space (2000) and Tinsel
(1999).
Her first feature film Cross Life debuted
at the Sydney International Film Festival (2007) and release is
expected in late 2007. Her documentary film Sisters in Calcutta (filmed
on location in India) will broadcast on ABC television in late 2007. The
Waiting City, Claire's next feature film, is in development through the
Australian Film Commission's IndiVision program.
Ophelia
Claire McCarthy
Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts
Ophelia comes of age as lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude, and her singular spirit captures Hamlet's affections. As lust and betrayal threaten the kingdom, Ophelia finds herself trapped between true love and controlling her own destiny.
Ophelia
The Waiting City
Claire McCarthy
Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
The Waiting City
The Turning
Stephen Page, Robert Connolly
Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
The Turning
Skin
Claire McCarthy
Миа Васиковска, Eloise Winestock
Robert tries to rekindle a relationship with his teenage daughters Emma and Zoe on their last holiday together before the divorce. He slowly begins to realize that not only has he lost access to all that he loves, but Emma, his youngest, maybe affected in a personal and destructive way.
Skin