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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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Black & White & Sex
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
John Winter
Producer John Winter (Rabbit-Proof Fence) makes his directorial debut with this unconventional film-within-a-film about a sex worker (played by eight different actresses) who reveals disarming truths about the oldest profession.
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Dancing with Dictators
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Hugh Piper
Dancing with Dictators is a film about the struggle for control of MCM, the only media company in Burma with any foreign investment. The incredible-but-true story of an Australian journalist who owns a newspaper in Burma, one of the most repressive countries on earth.
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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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Jucy
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Louise Alston
Jackie (Francesca Gasteen) and Lucy (Cindy Nelson) together are 'Jucy', two 20-something Brisbane slackers who spend their days together working in a dead-end job, smoking pot and playing video games. Things aren't too bad - except that everyone keeps telling them it's time to get serious about their lives.
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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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Sleeping Beauty
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Julia Leigh
A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
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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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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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