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33 Postcards
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Pauline Chan
Sixteen-year-old Mei Mei (Zhu Lin) has dreamt of meeting her Australian sponsor and pen-friend Dean Randall (Guy Pearce) and his 'perfect family' for ten years. When her orphanage travels to Australia to attend a choir festival, Mei Mei disobeys the school leader and sets out to find him and discovers that the idyllic life Dean depicted in his postcards is far from the truth.
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Lynn-Maree Milburn, Richard Lowenstein
Guitarist, songwriter and artist Rowland S.Howard was an instrumental figure in the Australian rock scene, particularly renowned for his role in the seminal post-punk outfit The Birthday Party. In a career spanning 30 years Howard worked with the best artists of his generation, including Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch and Ollie Olsen. He was a singular talent, cut short by an untimely death in 2009.
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Destined for stardom, Ben Lee cemented his place in the annals of Australian pop with his catchy tunes and his extraordinary self-confidence. Despite a remarkable music career that has taken him from the suburbs of Sydney to the boroughs of New York, Lee’s private life has largely remained an enigma till now.
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I'm Not Dead Yet
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Janine Hosking
The rollicking story of Chad Morgan, the politically-incorrect country singer with the donkey grin (known as "The Sheik of Scrubby Creek"). Narrated by Tex Perkins.
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Red Dog
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Kriv Stenders
Adapted from the novel of the same name by award-winning author Louis De Bernières, ‘’Red Dog’’ is the true story of a charismatic kelpie who united a mining community in North West Australia in the 1970s and ‘80s
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Matthew Bate
The most important recording in the 1990s grunge era wasn't made by some alt.rock star. It was a covert audio recording of two drunken men living in a small flat in San Francisco, who spent their available free time yelling, screaming, hitting and generally abusing each other. The phenomenon began in 1987 when Eddie and Mitch (two young punks from the midwest), moved next door to Peter Haskett (a flamboyant gay man), and Raymond Huffman (a raging homophobe).
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Swerve
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Craig Lahiff
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin (David Lyons) opts for a shortcut and happens across a fatal car accident. One of the drivers (Emma Booth) is shaken but not hurt, while the other lies dead -- leaving a briefcase full of money without an owner. Despite his best intentions, Colin quickly finds himself drawn into a deadly game of survival, where no one is quite what they seem.
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The Eye of the Storm
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Fred Schepisi
Set in Sydney's Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter (Rampling), as her expatriate son (Rush) and daughter (Davis) convene at her deathbed. But, in dying, as in living, Mrs Hunter remains a powerful force on those who surround her.
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The Hungry Tide
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Tom Zubrycki
Only metres above sea level, the nation of Kiribati is on the front line of climate change. Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, is passionate about her homeland and, despite her shyness, is determined to raise the world's awareness of its predicament. It’s a journey that takes her to the Copenhagen Climate Conference and a year later to Cancun. Meanwhile back in Kiribati fragile sea walls are crumbling, and storm tides are sweeping into villages. One day Maria receives news...
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The Triangle Wars
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Rosie Jones
An inspirational story for our times, THE TRIANGLE WARS is the story of the battle being waged between local government, big business and the community over the development of a tiny sliver of crown land on the foreshore of St Kilda. A microcosm of a much bigger story about power, values, compromise and transparency, THE TRIANGLE WARS tells the story through three men at the heart of the conflict: an eccentric politician, a celebrity photographer and a high-powered property developer. Combining
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Toomelah
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Ivan Sen
Toomelah is the story of a boy called Kiren, who wants to be a gangster and his daily life growing up in a remote Aboriginal community – a provocative and comic story that transports audiences inside the community, creating an authentic world and way of life that is “Toomelah”. This film was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
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X
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Jon Hewitt
Two unsuspecting young women are plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse in Jon Hewitt’s high-octane thriller X. High class escort Holly is retiring, kissing her call girl life goodbye. She just has one last night on the job to get through. Meanwhile, teenage runaway Shay arrives in the city broke and alone, doing whatever it takes to get through her first night on the streets of Kings Cross. Holly and Shay are thrown together on a job that goes horribly wrong.
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