Here is a little about "A Light Touch":

It's Sydney summer. It hasn't rained in weeks.

An immigrant cleaner, Marion, works for a reclusive blind man, Oscar. Both are lonely, disconnected and live on the fringes.

Marion struggles in the sighted world. Oscar is a bitter and self punishing alcoholic. Within his old terrace house Marion slowly discovers Oscar's private tactile world and her senses are awakened. An intimate story of love and desire unfolds...

Once finished, this lush, textured film will be submitted to local and international film festivals for consideration. It is our hope that your assistance will allow us to finish the film to a high standard so festival selectors take notice. As emerging filmmakers we rely on festival success to bring attention to our work, so your assistance to get us noticed will mean a very great deal to all the cast and crew that worked on this film.

We thank you for any support you can give us. No contribution is too small. In return we hope to reward you not only with the rewards listed on this page, but with an amazing film you can say you were a part of!

Some information about the Cast and Crew:

The film is written and directed by Liselle Mei, an NYU film school graduate and award winning independent filmmaker.  Her thesis film, Ana: Portrait in Days won the prestigious Best Film Wasserman Award at NYU’s First Run Film Festival, an Empire State Award for Best Experimental Short and a Student Academy Award nomination. Her second short, Lower East Side Stories screened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and aired on television in the US nationwide on PBS’s Real NY series WNET/Thirteen.  Liselle has a NYFA fel­lowship in Screenwriting and was selected for the Berlin Film Festival’s Talent Campus of emerging writer/directors.

The film is produced by Bec Cubitt. With years of experience in post-production and as a producer’s assistant, Bec has just embarked on a new stage of her career, taking a position as a development executive at Heather Ogilvie’s Galvanized Film Group. Previous roles include senior longform producer at post house, Cutting Edge, where she worked on features such as Beneath Hill 60 and TV series, Slide, and assistant producer at Red Carpet Productions, where she was also post-production supervisor on the feature, Accidents Happen. She has also produced short films Big Trouble, Little Fish, which premiered in competition at Flickerfest 2010, and A Light Touch, currently in post-production, and has a long and short form projects in development. Bec holds a BA in Media and Film, having specialised in new and emerging technologies.

CAST

Neveen Hanna: http://www.neveenhanna.com/

Martin Dinglewall: http://www.martindinglewall.com/

Alyssa McClelland: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1046102/

CREW

Christopher Miles (Cinematographer): 

http://www.christopherleemiles.com/Cinematographer/Montage2.html

Freya Berkhout (Composer): http://www.myspace.com/kyusounds

Katie Flaxman (Editor): http://katieflaxman.com/