A film about the late Tanja Liedtke, called Life in Movement, is due for main screen release early next year.
In 2007, this promising 27-year-old choreographer died
when she was hit by a truck, shortly before taking up her post as the newly appointed artistic
director of Sydney Dance Company, where she was have to have replaced Graeme
Murphy.
The film documents the tour that her collaborators
undertook 18 months later and ". . . in the process . . . deal with their grief and explore the
reasons for her death," according the producer's website.
"Interspersed with intimate footage of her artistic process and previously
unseen interviews, Life in Movement is a film about moving
creatively through life and loss. Filmmakers Bryan Mason and Sophie
Hyde give us a powerfully rendered take on art and artists,
creativity and our own mortality."
The film has already screened at the Adelaide and Sydney
Film festivals and won high praise and several awards.