Grigoryan Brothers – A Boy Called Sailboat

Ballarat Mechanics Institute

117-119 Sturt Street,
Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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  • Tue 14 Jul

7:30pm–9:30pm

$45 - $49

GA $49.00 – Concession $45.00

Film Screening with the soundtrack performed live by the Grigoryan Brothers, followed by a question and answer session with the film's writer/director Cameron Nugent.

Acclaimed guitarists Slava and Leonard Grigoryan have expanded their creative output by crafting and recording the soundtrack to the award-winning movie A Boy Called Sailboat.

This heart-warming movie, written and developed by Melbourne-based creative team Cameron Nugent and Andrew Curry was filmed in New Mexico and stars Academy Award® winning actor J.K Simmons, Noel G, Elizabeth De Razzo, Jake Busey, Lew Temple and Julian Atocani Sanchez in the title role.

Sailboat brings love and hope to a family who have forged a simple but proud life in the drought-ridden Deep South. One afternoon he brings home a little guitar. From this moment, Sailboat and his little guitar are inseparable, and when his ill grandmother requests he write a song for her, Sailboat meanders through adversity to deliver the unimaginable – the greatest song ever written.

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