Still Life (play) in Paris in 1968 under the title "Brève Recontre" (presented in tandem with "Nous Dansons"), and in the same year, along with "Fumed Oak", it formed the basis for a musical, not by Coward, called "Mr. and Mrs". The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In 2008, a stage version of "Brief Encounter" was presented in London at the Haymarket Cinema and on tour by Kneehigh Theatre using a combination of the text of "Still Life" and the screenplay. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on "Brief Encounter",
Leon Coward Sydney Indie Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) WILDsound Fest (Toronto, Canada) KaPow Intergalactic Film Festival (California, USA) The Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) The Golden Blasters Science Fiction Short Film Awards (The National Irish Science Fiction Film Festival) (Dublin, Ireland) Fantastic Planet Film Festival (Sydney Australia) Miami Short Film Festival (Miami, USA) Best Short Fest (San Diego, USA) Leon Coward Leon Coward (born 1991) is an Australian artist, composer, writer, film-maker and co-founder of the chamber orchestra and vocal ensemble Camerata Academica of the Antipodes. Coward was homeschooled, and has an older sister, Imogen Coward, and brother, Taliésin