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Sparkles: Sparkles meets Diamond on her way to Perth
Title:
Sparkles: Sparkles meets Diamond on her way to Perth
NFSA ID
1624088
Year
2020
Courtesy
Rush Films
This clip is an excerpt from the short film Sparkles (2020) from Rush Films.
Sparkles (played by Tina Fielding) is a 30-something-year-old woman with Down syndrome who runs away from her life in a small country town with dreams of heading to the big city.
On her journey she makes friends with Diamond, an outback drag queen played by Gary Cooper.
Producer
Cody Greenwood
Director
Jacqueline Pelczar
Writer
Tina Fielding
Cast
Tina Fielding, Gary Cooper, Holly Jones, Bruce Denny, James Broadhurst, Sirriah Kickett
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.