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Oranges and Sunshine
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Jim Loach
Starring:
Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham
NominatedActor:
David Wenham
Nominated Actress:
Emily Watson
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The story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children from the UK to Australia during the 40s and 50s, some without their parent’s knowledge.
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Orchids: My Intersex Adventure
Documentary-Feature/Short
Director:
Phoebe Hart
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When Phoebe Hart was growing up in Townsville, it took a long time for her to find out that she was different. At puberty, she was taken aside and told the bare minimum: that she had Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome—in plainer language, that she was intersex, a hermaphrodite. More shocks were to follow when she found out that her younger sister Bonnie had inherited the same condition. The sisters are pissed off, armed with a video camera, and determined to come to terms with who they are.
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Surviving Georgia
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Sandra Sciberras and Kate Whitbread
Starring:
Pia Miranda, Holly Valance, Shane Jacobson, Caroline O'Connor, Spencer McLaren
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Heidi (Pia Miranda) and Rose (Holly Valance) are sisters running from the things they don’t want to face. Life, love and responsibility. But in order for them to move forward, they must learn to let go of the past and reconcile with their feisty and vivacious mother (Caroline O’Connor) who walked out on them 12 years ago.
Surviving Georgia is a heart warming romantic comedy about family, getting what you need out of life and discovering that love, resolution and happiness can be found in the
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The Wedding Party
Feature Film-Live Action/Animation
Director:
Amanda Jane
Starring:
Josh Lawson, Isabel Lucas, Steve Bisley, Rhonda Burchmore, Adam Zwar, Nadine Garner, Essie Davis
NominatedActor:
Josh Lawson
Nominated Actress:
Isabel Lucas
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First time feature director Amanda Jane takes her camera into the heart of Melbourne and creates a fun-filled farce about family, love and the choices we make. From the sacred turf of the MCG to the city’s kinky underground, The Wedding Party explores everything that can go wrong (and right) in the search for love.
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