The best pleasure of the annual screen composers’ shindig is the orchestra, led by Jessica Wells, who arranges pieces from the nominated shows, so they can be liberated from their production duties and heard for themselves. This year the Consort of Melbourne provided some thrilling deep and ethereal human voice evocations, which seem to be a real feature of this year’s contributions.
The Paul Kelly song that accompanied The Final Quarter was sung by Jess Hitchcock, an Indigenous opera and popular music performer, which was also a lovely touch.
