Facing the Music (2001 film)

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Facing the Music (2001) is an Australian film directed by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson about the wish by some staff members to keep the University of Sydney Department of Music alive in the face of budget overspending.

The film features the composer Professor Anne Boyd and head of the department in her struggle to run a dysfunctional department despite budget pressure. She has no training or capacity for the fund-raising that is apparently called for. The film won the Cinematic Intelligence Agency Trenchcoat Awards 2002 for best documentary or true drama,^{[citation needed]} Film Critics Circle of Australia 2002 for Best Australian documentary,^{[citation needed]} and the 2001 for Best Documentary.^{[citation needed]}

At the end of 2004, the Music Department was merged with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music^[1]

Box office[]

Facing the Music grossed $182,901 at the box office in Australia.^[2]

See also[]

• Cinema of Australia

References[]

External links[]

• Facing the Music at IMDb
• Facing The Music at the National Film and Sound Archive

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