Angelo Salamanca
Australian Cinema Ensemble

 

 

Urban Myth

1991, 20 mins, drama, 16mm  

Writer/Director: Angelo Salamanca     
Executive Producer: Swinburne Film and TV School
Associate Producer: Scottie Walker (Connolly)
Director of Photography: Stephen Amis
Editor: Piero Colli & Angelo Salamanca
Art Director: Paul Carland
Music: Janine De Lorenzo
Sound: Christine Rogers & Andrew Ferguson
Production Supervisor: Peter Tammer
Script Consultant: Jennifer Sabine

Cast: Suzy Cato, Joseph Spano, Peter Stratford

Distributed by the Australian Film Institute.    Catalogue entry

Certificate of Merit, Nimes International Film Festival, France

Film by "real Brunswick boy" by Stella Babirz, The Sentinel, September 16, 1991.


Synopsis

Married to one’s spouse.
Married to one’s art.
Married to one’s convictions.
Married.

Bea, a teacher of classical ballet, unintentionally falls pregnant for the first time at the age of forty-four and doesn’t know if her husband or her lover has fathered her child.

Bea must decide that if she proceeds with the pregnancy, whether to not only ascertain whose child it is, but also whether to continue living with her husband, move in with her lover, or live on her own.