In 2004, a close friend of director Julie Portucelli introduced her to a novel that was so popular that it sold out in the English-speaking world. The novel, titled "Our Dad Lives in a Tree," tells the emotional story of a family after losing their father. After reading the novel, Portucelli decided to put it on the screen, because in the mind of the female director, such a story mixed with reality and fantasy is very suitable for the screen.
However, Portucelli's desire to put the novel on the screen has been difficult to achieve, because while she was still reading the novel in Paris, an Australian filmmaker, Subo Taylor, had bought the filming rights of the novel. , and has already started pre-production preparations in her own hometown of Perth, Australia. Sue Taylor said: Botucelli contacted her at the time and told her that she wanted to bring the novel to the screen. But I was disappointed to find that I had bought the filming rights one step ahead. In fact, when she contacted, she had already done a lot of preparations for the film. Elizabeth Mars, a screenwriter in Sydney, was hired to write the script for the film, and the first draft of the script was basically completed by that time. Luckily, Julie Botucelli did not give up on making this film. She and her agent and producer invited Taylor to Paris to talk with her about the filming of the film and her thoughts on the novel. understanding. Taylor said: "It sounds strange to have a French female director directing an Australian story. But as the first meeting came to an end, it turned out that it was the same film that Julie Portucelli wanted to make, There are sadness, loss and many life insights in the film. I feel that although I speak two different languages, the emotions and other things are the same. There is a mysterious power and unusual feelings and recognition. The maintenance of knowledge. So I agreed to her request to direct the film."
There are unpredictable situations in the sky, and people have good luck and bad luck. Just after Julie Portucelli got the film's guide tube, her husband fell ill in 2006 and passed away soon after, leaving Julie and two children. It seems that "Our Dad Lives in a Tree" is a prophecy, because what the director went through is almost a copy of the story of the novel. Taylor said: "Her husband Christopher died suddenly and no one was mentally prepared. It was exactly the same as in the novel, and now the story of the novel has become reality, no matter how it ends, this is living reality. After all this, there is no director more qualified to direct Many Trees than Julie Portucelli."
