Time Out magazine honours alumna's directorial debut in all-time Top 50
A FILM released by a Victorian College of the Arts alumna in 1989 has been named as one of the "50 greatest directorial debuts of all time" by iconic London arts and culture guide Time Out.
Director Ann Turner's debut film Celia - a rites-of-passage drama set in Melbourne in 1957 and charting one summer in the life of nine-year-old Celia - was ranked 43rd on the list, seven places ahead of Dennis Hopper's cult classic, Easy Rider.
The Time Out review comments: "It's remarkable how many filmmakers mine childhood experiences for their first feature (see 'The Night of the Hunter', 'River's Edge', 'Kids' or Bob Balaban's wondrously sadistic 'Parents' (1989)). (But) very few have nailed the pre-pubescent experience better than Ann Turner, whose singular debut might be described as anti-nostalgia: a politically astute rites-of-passage horror movie with one of the grimmest endings in cinema".
To view the Time Out list - and read the full review of Celia - visit
www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/8594/time-outs-50-greatest-directorial-debuts-of-all-time.html