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Mystify: Michael Hutchence  2019

Directed by  Richard Lowenstein
Produced by John Battsek
Executive Produced by Maiken Baird
Distributed by Madman Entertainment

World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival 2019

Michael Hutchence is known the world over as the frontman of INXS and a rock god. But underneath he struggled with the sort of personal demons that eventually overcame him. Previously unseen footage, featuring the likes of Kylie Minogue and Bono, power this uniquely intimate and insightful portrait of a man not altogether comfortable with the spotlight or who he was outside of it.


Tribeca Film Festival
Nominee, Best Documentary Feature

London Film Festival
Nominee, Grierson Award

Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
Nominee, Best Documentary; Nominee, Best Editing in a Documentary; Nominee, Best Sound in a Documentary

Australian Film Critics Association Awards
Nominee, Best Documentary

Australian Screen Sound Guild
Winner, Best Sound for a Documentary




“Makes powerful use of family and personal footage to tell the story of a talented man beset by personal demons.”
Variety

“As the tragedy unfolds, there’s a strange solace in seeing this captivating enigma somehow emerging intact.”
TimeOut
“It should prove essential viewing for the subject's fans: a tender portrait of the man's highs and lows that sheds new light on the broken years that directly preceded his suicide at 37.”
Hollywood Reporter



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