Three Chords & the Truth

Three Chords & the Truth, the debut feature film from writer/director Claire Pasvolsky, starring Brisbane musician Jackie Marshall, will open in cinemas from October 5.

The film was selected at the Brisbane International Film Festival and the Sydney Film Festival and will screen at this week’s CinefestOz in WA.

The film is about Angie, who could have been one of Australia’s leading musicians if she wasn’t so self-sabotaging. Now in her forties, she finds herself terminally ill and alone. She struggles financially and plays in a seedy pub to fund the recording of her final album. When Angie meets Ruby, a teenage runaway, she teaches her to write songs as a way to heal the past.

The film is inspired by musician Jackie Marshall’s own life story. Jackie wrote and performed the original songs on the film.  Maisie Owens (Bump) plays Ruby and the film also features cameo appearances by television personalities Richard Wilkins and Julia Zemiro.

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Claire Pasvolsky says: “Three Chords and the Truth is a portrait of an artist as she faces her impending death, but it is also about the power of kindness, connection and healing trauma through music.”

Claire’s documentary short film Big Sky Girls recently screened at Cinequest in the US and, in 2020, the feature documentary which Claire produced, Calibrate, won LA’s Awareness Festival People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film is currently screening in festivals around the world.

Claire began her career in theatre, training as an actor and then creating her company “The Judas Tree” in Sydney, which championed the new works of emerging Australian playwrights. She has written and directed many professional theatre productions including “Spoon River Anthology” (based on the poetry of Edgar Lee Masters) and adapted Georg Buchner’s “Woyzeck”.

Three Chords & the Truth was produced and edited by Steve Pasvolsky, whose short film Inja was nominated for an Academy Award, and who has gone on to make documentaries including John Eales Revels: The Haka, a feature documentary for Discovery Channel, which won a Medal at the Olympic Committee’s Sports Press Association Awards (2019) for journalism.

Confirmed cinemas opening October 5:

Dendy Newtown, Canberra, Coorparoo, Southport

Gala Warrawong

Event Macquarie, Kotara, Indooroopilly, Innaloo, Marion

The Sun, Yarraville

Luna Leederville

Wallis Mitcham

With seasons to follow:

October 18 – Darwin Deckchair

October 19 – Riverside Parramatta

October 26:
Majestic Port Macquarie, Nelson Bay, Nambucca Heads, Wynnun, Nambour

Belgrave Cinema Armidale

Forum 6 Cinemas Tamworth

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