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ACUTE MISFORTUNE ANGEL OF MINE

The flm adaptation of Erik Jensen's Divorced mother, Lizzie, an imbalanced biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the woman battling for custody of her son, has biographer and his subject as it descends her life turned upside down on crossing into a dependent and abusive relationship. paths with Lola, a child who she believes to be the daughter she lost seven years ago in PRODUCER Virginia Kay, Jamie Houge, a hospital fre. Unable to let her suspicions Liz Kearney, Thomas M Wright go, Lizzie stalks and befriends Lola's mother, DIRECTOR Thomas M Wright Claire, inching her way into Lola's life, to the SCREENWRITER Thomas M Wright, bewilderment of her family. Claire grows Erik Jensen suspicious on discovering that this strange LEAD ACTOR Daniel Henshall, Toby Wallace woman is systematically following her little girl, SUPPORTING ACTOR Max Cullen appearing everywhere. As Lizzie's obsession SUPPORTING ACTRESS Gillian Jones, heightens and her behaviour becomes Genevieve Lemon increasingly disturbing, Claire confronts her, CINEMATOGRAPHER Germain McMicking, which brings deeply buried secrets to the Stefan Duscio surface and the devastating truth is revealed. EDITOR Luca Campbell COMPOSER Evelyn Ida Morris PRODUCER Brian Etting, Josh Etting, SOUND Chris Goodes, Steve Bond, Su Armstrong Cam Rees DIRECTOR Kim Farrant PRODUCTION DESIGNER Leah Popple SCREENWRITER Luke Davies, David Regal COSTUME DESIGNER Sophie Fletcher LEAD ACTRESS Noomi Rapace, CASTING DIRECTOR Jane Norris, Holly Yvonne Strahovski Anderson SUPPORTING ACTOR Finn Little Netflix now on iQ4 SUPPORTING ACTRESS Annika Whiteley Andrew Commis All the Foxtel and Netflix shows you love, including CINEMATOGRAPHER EDITOR Jack Hutchings your favourite sport, drama and entertainment are COMPOSER Gabe Noel now together, all in one place on iQ4 SOUND Ann Aucote, Chris Goodes, Luke Millar, Lee Yee PRODUCTION DESIGNER Ruby Mathers CASTING DIRECTOR Alison Meadows Have it all BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE Call 1300Call 366 131 446787 Foxtel SCREENPLAY ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ADAPTED CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 90 mins RUNNING TIME 98 mins DISTRIBUTOR CINEMAPLUS DISTRIBUTOR R&R FILMS Netflix streaming membership required. For Netflix terms see www.netflix.com/termsofuse. Requires internet connected iQ4. RELEASE MONTH MAY RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER Foxtel marks used under license by Foxtel Management Pty Ltd. Ballers, Euphoria: 2019 © Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO and all related service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc. America’s Got Talent: © 2019 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Mr Inbetween: © 2018 FX Networks, LLC. All rights reserved. Mayans M.C: © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and FX Productions, LLC. All rights reserved. CUS0409 FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 2 Sydney attracts one of the world’s most spectacular line-ups of musical productions, high adrenalin sports, exciting cultural experiences and artistic collaborations.

ANIMALS BILCHED

After a decade of partying, Laura and Tyler's BILCHED is an Aussie teen comedy following friendship is strained when Laura falls in love. best mates Hal and Matt as they blunder But what is really stopping her from fulflling through their fnal days of High School. Raw, her dreams? A ferce and unapologetic honest, hilarious and heart-warming in equal celebration of female friendship, ANIMALS measure, Hal's striking writing, producing and is an intimate, funny and bittersweet acting debut (written when just 18) perfectly BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL SCULPTURE BY THE SEA examination of the challenges of turning captures the banter and laconic humour 10 October - 15 December 24 October - 10 November talent into action, and being a modern of Australian coastal youth at the cusp of woman, with faults, longings and competing adulthood...knowing their lives are about to Be inspired. Be electrified. Billy Elliot the Musical Join the world’s largest, free sculpture exhibition. desires. change and yet revelling in their youth and all arrives this October. Seen by over 12 million See the spectacular coastal walk transformed into the freedom and stupidity it affords. people worldwide it is the recipient of 85 a 2km long sculpture park, featuring 100 sculptures Sarah Brocklehurst, awards internationally. by artists from Australia and across the world. PRODUCER Rebecca Summerton, Cormac Fox, PRODUCER Hal Cumpston, Rachel Lane, Sydney Lyric Bondi to Tamarama Beach Sophie Hyde Jeremy Cumpston, Noel Vinson, DIRECTOR Sophie Hyde James Campbell, Ewan Wall SCREENWRITER Emma Jane Unsworth DIRECTOR Jeremy Cumpston LEAD ACTRESS Holliday Grainger, SCREENWRITER Hal Cumpston Alia Shawkat LEAD ACTOR Hal Cumpston, Fred Du Rietz SUPPORTING ACTOR Fra Free, LEAD ACTRESS Mitzi Ruhlmann Dermot Murphy SUPPORTING ACTOR Otis Pavlovic, SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Molloy Ewan Wall, Will Johnson CINEMATOGRAPHER Bryan Mason SUPPORTING ACTRESS EDITOR Bryan Mason Paloma Bolton-Brito, Juliet Lochrin COMPOSER Jed Palmer, Zoë Barry CINEMATOGRAPHER Shane Kavanagh, SOUND Josh Williams, Adrian Medhurst, James Campbell Pete Smith, Emma Bortignon EDITOR Liam Vanderwaal, James Campbell PRODUCTION DESIGNER Louise Mathews COMPOSER Jonathon Zwartz, Ewan Wall SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL ART SERIES: SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL ART SERIES: COSTUME DESIGNER Renate Henschke SOUND Sam Petty, Gordon Fletcher JAPAN SUPERNATURAL CORNELIA PARKER CASTING DIRECTOR Shaheen Baig PRODUCTION DESIGNER Leonie Barker 2 November - 8 March 2020 8 November - 16 February 2020 COSTUME DESIGNER Monique Caldow Celebrating the wildly imaginative spirit world of This summer, British artist Cornelia Parker will HAIR AND MAKEUP Lucy Woolfman Japanese art across the centuries, from 1700s transform everyday objects into unexpected and CASTING DIRECTOR Ann Fay to now. explosive installations, sculptures, drawings Art Gallery of NSW and films. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE SCREENPLAY ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION CTC If it’s on in Sydney, it’s on sydney.com RUNNING TIME 109 mins RUNNING TIME 97 mins DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS DISTRIBUTOR INDEPENDENT RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER RELEASE MONTH MAY Please note that events are subject to change or cancellation (check relevant website for further details prior to the event). Destination NSW acknowledges and appreciates all photographic images supplied by each event owner for use in this advertisement. Mu Boyan, ‘Horizon’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018. Photo: Ross Duggan. Takashi Murakami Photo © Claire Dorn, courtesy of Murakami Studio (detail). Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991, image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London © the artist. FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 4 BOOK WEEK BUOYANCY

Book Week is a shaggy, dark comedy about A 14-year-old Cambodian boy secretly leaves a disgraced novelist turned English teacher home in search of a better life, but is sold to a trying to fnd redemption. Thai broker and enslaved on a fshing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered PRODUCER Heath Davis, around him, he decides his only hope of Joanne Weatherstone freedom is to become as violent as his captors. DIRECTOR Heath Davis SCREENWRITER Heath Davis PRODUCER Samantha Jennings, LEAD ACTOR Alan Dukes Kristina Ceyton, Rita Walsh LEAD ACTRESS Susan Prior DIRECTOR Rodd Rathjen SUPPORTING ACTOR Thuso Lekwape, SCREENWRITER Rodd Rathjen Rhys Muldoon, Tiriel Mora, Toby Schmitz LEAD ACTOR Sarm Heng SUPPORTING ACTRESS Matilda Ridgeway, SUPPORTING ACTOR Thanawut Kasro, Airlie Dodds, Rose Riley, Pippa Grandison Mony Ros CINEMATOGRAPHER Chris Bland CINEMATOGRAPHER Michael Latham EDITOR Romain Mongin EDITOR Graeme Pereira COMPOSER Sam Lockwood, Heather COMPOSER Lawrence English Shannon SOUND Sam Petty SOUND Sasha Zastavnikovic PRODUCTION DESIGNER Bethany Ryan PRODUCTION DESIGNER Lee Launay COSTUME DESIGNER Kanchana Samrit COSTUME DESIGNER Cat de Lound HAIR AND MAKEUP Rachana Buon HAIR AND MAKEUP Candice Hickson CASTING DIRECTOR Non Jungmeier

BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 96 mins RUNNING TIME 92 mins DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS DISTRIBUTOR UMBRELLA RELEASE MONTH NOVEMBER 2018 RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER

FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 6 CELESTE CHOCOLATE OYSTER

Celeste was once Australia's most beloved CHOCOLATE OYSTER follows twenty- opera singer. Yet she threw it all away to somethings Ellie and Taylor, who live in follow the man she loved to a crumbling Bondi apartments they can't really afford, property deep in the rainforests of Tropical and pursue their dreams in a city that seems PROUDLY North Queensland. Ten years after his tragic intent on thwarting them. Taylor chases a death, Celeste is ready to make one fnal dance career by day and works as a waitress return to the stage. But her stepson Jack, still at night, while supporting her new boyfriend SUPPORTING haunted by the past, arrives at her behest Henry, an aspiring playwright. Tired of being amidst the preparations for the performance with a dependent boyfriend, Ellie ends her THE ANNUAL AACTA AWARDS and fnds Celeste is as he remembered - relationship and begins to see Craig, a chef beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. When who dreams of creating a signature dish. With Celeste asks Jack for an impossible favour, the story work-shopped between actors and the secrets that drove them apart explode director, and a great deal of improvisation, eurekainternational.com.au back into rhapsodic life. the monochrome CHOCOLATE OYSTER has a breezy quality that refects both the beauty PRODUCER Lizette Atkins, Raphael Cocks and diffculty of life in Sydney. DIRECTOR Ben Hackworth SCREENWRITER Ben Hackworth, PRODUCER Christine Luby, Steve Jaggi Bille Brown DIRECTOR Steve Jaggi LEAD ACTOR Thomas Cocquerel SCREENWRITER Steve Jaggi LEAD ACTRESS Radha Mitchell LEAD ACTOR Ryan Harrison, Aaron Glenane SUPPORTING ACTRESS Odessa Young, LEAD ACTRESS Rosie Lourde, Nadine Garner Anna Lawrence CINEMATOGRAPHER Katie Milwright SUPPORTING ACTRESS Rosie Lourde, EDITOR Peter Carrodus Anna Lawrence COMPOSER Jackson Milas, Antony Partos CINEMATOGRAPHER Rhiannon Bannenberg SOUND Dane Cody, Sam Gain-Emery, EDITOR Adrian Powers, Paul Murphy Phil Heywood, Lachlan Harris COMPOSER Angela Little PRODUCTION DESIGNER Ross Wallace SOUND Craig Beckett COSTUME DESIGNER Erin Roche HAIR AND MAKEUP Gail Kane, Jodie Hellingman

BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 105 mins RUNNING TIME 77 mins DISTRIBUTOR CURIOUS FILM DISTRIBUTOR INDIE VILLAGE RELEASE MONTH APRIL RELEASE MONTH MARCH

FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 8 THE COMBINATION DANGER CLOSE: THE REDEMPTION BATTLE OF LONG TAN

Six years have passed, and Lebanese- South Vietnam, late afternoon on August Australian John Morkos remains haunted 18, 1966 - for three and a half hours, in the by the events that led to his death of his pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered brother. As John begins to rebuild his life, trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, a he fnds solace in the boxing ring at his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly local gymnasium. Meanwhile, tensions are inexperienced Australian and New Zealand building on the streets of western Sydney, soldiers are fghting for their lives, holding off as a ruthless new crime boss, Nas, seeks an overwhelming force of over 2,000 battle to expand his empire, and the formation hardened North Vietnamese soldiers. of a radical group of white supremacists threatens to shatter the social fabric of the PRODUCER Martin Walsh, John Schwarz, entire community. Michael Schwarz DIRECTOR Kriv Stenders PRODUCER George Basha, David Field, SCREENWRITER Stuart Beattie, John Tedesco Jack Brislee, James Nicholas, Karel Segers, DIRECTOR David Field Paul Sullivan SCREENWRITER George Basha LEAD ACTOR Travis Fimmel, LEAD ACTOR George Basha Daniel Webber LEAD ACTRESS Abbey Aziz SUPPORTING ACTOR Luke Bracey, SUPPORTING ACTOR Tony Ryan, Anthony Hayes, Richard Roxburgh Johnny Nasser, Simon Elrahi CINEMATOGRAPHER Ben Nott CINEMATOGRAPHER Robert C. Morton EDITOR Veronika Jenet EDITOR Shelley O’Neill COMPOSER Caitlin Yeo SOUND Tim Lloyd SOUND Liam Egan PRODUCTION DESIGNER Sam Hobbs COSTUME DESIGNER Lizzy Gardiner HAIR AND MAKEUP Tess Natoli, Sean Genders, Anita Morgan CASTING DIRECTORS Kirsty McGregor, Stevie Ray

BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 103 mins RUNNING TIME 118 mins DISTRIBUTOR PINNACLE FILMS DISTRIBUTOR TRANSMISSION RELEASE MONTH FEBRUARY RELEASE MONTH AUGUST

FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 10 EMU RUNNER ESCAPE AND EVASION

EMU RUNNER is about the impact a After his men are killed in Burma, a lone soldier mother's death has on an Indigenous family returns home in search of solace. Hiding a living in an isolated Australian community. dark secret and confronted by an unrelenting The story is seen through the eyes of Gem, journalist, he's forced to face the ghosts of his a spirited nine-year-old girl, who deals past one last time. with grief by forging a bond with a wild emu, a mythical bird of her ancestors. It is PRODUCER Blake Northfeld, Jane Corden a bond she will do anything to keep but DIRECTOR Storm Ashwood one that puts her at odds with a young and SCREENWRITER Storm Ashwood inexperienced social worker. LEAD ACTOR Josh McConville LEAD ACTRESS Bonnie Sveen PRODUCER Victor Evatt, Imogen Thomas, SUPPORTING ACTOR Hugh Sheridan Antonia Barnard, John Fink SUPPORTING ACTRESS Rena Owen DIRECTOR Imogen Thomas CINEMATOGRAPHER Wade Muller SCREENWRITER Imogen Thomas EDITOR Marcus D’Arcy LEAD ACTOR Wayne Blair COMPOSER Michael Lira LEAD ACTRESS Rhae-Kye Waites SOUND David Gaylard SUPPORTING ACTOR Rodney McHughes, PRODUCTION DESIGNER Michael Turner Robert Carlton, Lindsay Waites COSTUME DESIGNER Andrew Infanti SUPPORTING ACTRESS Stella Carter, HAIR AND MAKEUP Billie Weston Maurial Spearim, Georgia Blizzard, CASTING DIRECTOR Gregory Apps Letisha Boney, Mary Waites CINEMATOGRAPHER Michael Gibbs EDITOR Jenny Hicks, Nicole Norelli COMPOSER Ben Fink, Peter Michael Davison, Glenn Skuthorpe SOUND Tom Heuzenroeder PRODUCTION DESIGNER Lissa Coote Celebrating COSTUME DESIGNER Tiffany Daro Australian stories BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION PG CLASSIFICATION CTC RUNNING TIME 95 mins RUNNING TIME 97 mins DISTRIBUTOR UMBRELLA DISTRIBUTOR BRONTE PICTURES RELEASE MONTH NOVEMBER RELEASE MONTH NOVEMBER screenaustralia.gov.au

FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 12 HEARTS AND BONES HOTEL MUMBAI I AM MOTHER JUDY & PUNCH

A war photographer has just returned home HOTEL MUMBAI is based on the true story I AM MOTHER is a sci-f thriller about In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near to prepare for his latest exhibition when of the devastating terrorist attack on the Taj a teenage girl, who is the frst of a new the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying a South Sudanese refugee appears at his Mahal Palace Hotel in 2008. The terrifying generation of humans to be raised by to resurrect their marionette show. The show door with a request - that he not exhibit any assault brings together the guests and staff Mother, a robot designed to repopulate the is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering, photographs of the massacre in his village, of the luxurious hotel including wealthy new earth after the extinction of humankind. But but Punch's driving ambition and penchant taken 15 years earlier. What emerges is an parents David and Zahra, Russian businessman the pair's unique relationship is threatened for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that unlikely friendship between the two men. Vasili, and newly promoted waiter Arjun and when an injured stranger arrives with news Judy must avenge. In a visceral and dynamic While sifting through the photographer's Head Chef in a desperate fght for survival. that calls into question everything Daughter live-action reinterpretation of the famous 16th archive, they make a startling discovery: This story celebrates humanity, compassion, has been told about the outside world. century puppet show, writer director Mirrah the refugee's daughter, thought dead, may courage, resilience and the unwavering desire Foulkes turns the traditional story of Punch still be alive. As more revelations arise, both to survive. PRODUCER Timothy White, Kelvin Munro and Judy on its head and brings to life a ferce, men begin to question their past and in their DIRECTOR Grant Sputore darkly comic and epic female-driven revenge search, they discover salvation. PRODUCER Basil Iwanyk, Gary Hamilton, SCREENWRITER Michael Lloyd Green story. Julie Ryan, Jomon Thomas LEAD ACTRESS Clara Rugaard PRODUCER Matt Reeder DIRECTOR Anthony Maras SUPPORTING ACTRESS Hilary Swank PRODUCER Michele Bennett, DIRECTOR Ben Lawrence SCREENWRITER John Collee, CINEMATOGRAPHER Steven D. Annis Nash Edgerton, Danny Gabai SCREENWRITER Ben Lawrence, Anthony Maras EDITOR Sean Lahiff DIRECTOR Mirrah Foulkes Beatrix Christian LEAD ACTOR Dev Patel COMPOSER Dan Luscombe, Antony Partos SCREENWRITER Mirrah Foulkes LEAD ACTOR Hugo Weaving LEAD ACTRESS Nazanin Boniadi SOUND Pete Smith LEAD ACTOR Damon Herriman LEAD ACTRESS Hayley McElhinney SUPPORTING ACTOR Anupam Kher PRODUCTION DESIGNER Hugh Bateup LEAD ACTRESS Mia Wasikowska SUPPORTING ACTOR Andrew Luri SUPPORTING ACTRESS COSTUME DESIGNER Mariot Kerr SUPPORTING ACTOR Terry Norris, SUPPORTING ACTRESS Bolude Watson Tilda Cobham-Hervey HAIR AND MAKEUP Tracy Phillpot Benedict Hardie, Tom Budge CINEMATOGRAPHER Hugh Miller CINEMATOGRAPHER Nick Remy Matthews CASTING DIRECTOR Nikki Barrett SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lucy Velik, EDITOR Philip Horn EDITOR Peter McNulty, Anthony Maras Gillian Jones, Virginia Gay, Daisy Axon COMPOSER Rafael May COMPOSER Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) CINEMATOGRAPHER Stefan Duscio SOUND Angus Robertson, Phil Heywood, SOUND Sam Petty EDITOR Danny Cooper Sam Hayward, Robert McKay PRODUCTION DESIGNER COMPOSER Francois Tetaz PRODUCTION DESIGNER Carlo Crescini Steven Jones-Evans SOUND Robert Mackenzie, Andrew Ramage COSTUME DESIGNER Rita Carmody COSTUME DESIGNER Anna Borghesi PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jo Ford HAIR AND MAKEUP Leah Taylor HAIR AND MAKEUP Fiona Rees-Jones COSTUME DESIGNER Edie Kurzer CASTING DIRECTOR Kirsty McGregor, CASTING DIRECTOR Ann Fay, HAIR AND MAKEUP Kirsten Veysey Gemma Brown Leigh Pickford, Trishaan Sarkar CASTING DIRECTOR Kirsty McGregor

SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION CTC CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION CTC RUNNING TIME 110 mins RUNNING TIME 123 mins RUNNING TIME 114 mins RUNNING TIME 106 mins DISTRIBUTOR MADMAN DISTRIBUTOR ICON DISTRIBUTOR NETFLIX DISTRIBUTOR MADMAN RELEASE MONTH NOVEMBER RELEASE MONTH MARCH RELEASE MONTH JUNE RELEASE MONTH OCTOBER

13 FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 14 JUVENILE THE KING DELINQUENTS Hal, wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, has turned his back on royal Broken teens facing incarceration for a crime life and is living among the people. But when they were forced to commit decide not to his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King accept their destiny and go about making Henry V and is forced to embrace the life a new one. The Juvenile Delinquents (JD's) he had previously tried to escape. Now the form a new dysfunctional family as they young king must navigate the palace politics, manoeuvre around problems manifesting chaos and war his father left behind, and the from their youth, competitiveness, emotional strings of his past life—including irrationality and the gruesomeness of their his relationship with his closest friend and new lives. Nobody said teen vengeance mentor, the ageing alcoholic knight, John would be painless. Falstaff.

WE IN PRODUCER Neil Goss INVEST PRODUCER Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, DIRECTOR Neil Goss Jeremy Kleiner, Liz Watts, David Michôd, Joel SCREENWRITER Neil Goss Edgerton Phil Blevins, Cha-tah Ellem, LEAD ACTOR DIRECTOR David Michôd SCREEN STORIES Xavier Michael, Moses Meads, Kaleal Cerafci SCREENWRITER David Michôd, Joel Edgerton Corynn Treadwell, LEAD ACTRESS LEAD ACTOR Timothée Chalamet Silvia Dionicio SUPPORTING ACTOR Joel Edgerton, Discover how Screen Queensland supports SUPPORTING ACTOR John Living Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, SUPPORTING ACTRESS Marie Smalley Robert Pattinson screen projects, industry practioners, Dominick Sivilli CINEMATOGRAPHER SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lily-Rose Depp, screen culture and production EDITOR James Sterling, Nicholas Levanti Thomasin McKenzie Adonis Tsilimparis COMPOSER CINEMATOGRAPHER Adam Arkapaw in Queensland. Carlo Albuin, Henry Bellingham SOUND EDITOR Peter Sciberras Marni Brucato PRODUCTION DESIGNER COMPOSER Nicholas Britell Anthony O’Brien HAIR AND MAKEUP SOUND Robert Mackenzie, Sam Petty, Gareth John, Leah Katz, Mario Vacarro, Tara Webb PRODUCTION DESIGNER Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton COSTUME DESIGNER Jane Petrie HAIR AND MAKEUP Alessandro Bertolazzi CASTING DIRECTOR Francine Maisler BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE screenqld.com.au SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION CTC CLASSIFICATION CTC RUNNING TIME 133 mins RUNNING TIME 133 mins DISTRIBUTOR INDEPENDENT DISTRIBUTOR NETFLIX RELEASE MONTH TBC RELEASE MONTH OCTOBER #makeitinqld FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 16 LOCUSTS THE NAKED WANDERER Estranged tech entrepreneur Ryan Black returns to his remote post-mining boom hometown for his father's funeral, where Dumped by his girlfriend and sponsored by he's reluctantly reunited with his ex-con media scoundrel Brian King, desolate Jake brother. But when he becomes the target of walks all-but-naked up Western Australia's an extortion scam at the hands of a gang of coast for charity, in the hope that his gesture small-town criminals, Ryan is forced to resort will win back his ex, Jasmine. That is, until he to desperate measures, exposing the dark meets mesmerising backpacker Valerie. underbelly of the dystopian town. PRODUCER Alan Lindsay, Helen Clucas Alan Lindsay PRODUCER Angus Watts DIRECTOR Callan Durlik DIRECTOR Heath Davis SCREENWRITER Angus McLaren SCREENWRITER Angus Watts LEAD ACTOR Natasha Liu Bordizzo LEAD ACTOR Ben Geurens LEAD ACTRESS Callan Durlik, LEAD ACTRESS Jessica McNamee SUPPORTING ACTOR Jamie Timony, Alan Little SUPPORTING ACTOR Nathaniel Dean, Justin Rosniak, Alan Dukes, Rhys Morgan SUPPORTING ACTRESS Megan Smart, Lucy-Rose Leonard SUPPORTING ACTRESS Caroline Brazier Michael McDermott CINEMATOGRAPHER Chris Bland CINEMATOGRAPHER Mark D’Angelo EDITOR Romain Mongin, Scott Gray COMPOSER Nigel Devenport COMPOSER Burkhard Dallwitz PRODUCTION DESIGNER Nicole Ferraro SOUND Mark D’Angelo COSTUME DESIGNER Hayley Atherton, PRODUCTION DESIGNER Carlo Crescini HAIR AND MAKEUP Kate Anderson PROUDLY SUPPORTING COSTUME DESIGNER Zohie Castellano HAIR AND MAKEUP Candice Hickson AUSTRALIAN CINEMA CASTING DIRECTOR Angus Watts

BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 86 mins RUNNING TIME 101 mins DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS DISTRIBUTOR UMBRELLA eventcinemas.com.au RELEASE MONTH OCTOBER RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER

FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 18 Buoyancy |

The Australian Dream | NEKROTRONIC THE NIGHTINGALE

Bloom Howard North, a scruffy down-on-his- Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict luck sewerage-waste worker, mysteriously woman, chases a British offcer through orphaned while still a baby, learns that the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on he is the only one with the ability to stop revenge for a terrible act of violence he a demonic corporate billionaire's plot to committed against her family. On the way, devour the souls of a million human beings. she enlists the services of an Aboriginal And as if that wasn't bad enough, the tracker named Billy, who is also marked by corporate billionaire is Finnegan... his mother. trauma from his own violence flled past. Nekrotronic is a mind-bending, genre- mashing, sci-f-horror flm - funny, scary, PRODUCER Kristina Ceyton, thrilling and action-packed, this is a cinematic Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, roller coaster, which traverses the full Jennifer Kent spectrum of human (and inhuman) emotion. DIRECTOR Jennifer Kent SCREENWRITER Jennifer Kent PRODUCER Tristan Roache-Turner, LEAD ACTOR Sam Clafin, Andrew Mason, Troy Lum Baykali Ganambarr DIRECTOR Kiah Roache-Turner LEAD ACTRESS Aisling Franciosi FILM SCREENWRITER Kiah Roache-Turner, SUPPORTING ACTOR Damon Herriman, Tristan Roache-Turner Harry Greenwood, Michael Sheasby VICTORIA LEAD ACTOR Ben O’Toole SUPPORTING ACTRESS Magnolia Maymuru LEAD ACTRESS Caroline Ford CINEMATOGRAPHER Radek Ladczuk SUPPORTING ACTOR Epine Bob Savea EDITOR Simon Njoo Proudly supporting SUPPORTING ACTRESS Tess Haubrich, COMPOSER Jed Kurzel Monica Bellucci SOUND Robert Mackenzie, Dean Ryan, CINEMATOGRAPHER Tim Nagle Leah Katz, Pete Smith the Victorian EDITOR Christine Cheung PRODUCTION DESIGNER Alex Holmes COMPOSER Michael Lira COSTUME DESIGNER Margot Wilson screen industry SOUND David White, Cate Cahill, HAIR AND MAKEUP Nikki Gooley, Jed Dodge, Peter Purcell Larry Van Duynhoven, Cassie O’Brien PRODUCTION DESIGNER Nicholas Dare, CASTING DIRECTOR Nikki Barrett Peter Owens, Matt Milgate, Di Robertson COSTUME DESIGNER Xanthe Heubel HAIR AND MAKEUP Angela Conte, Paul Katte, Nick Nicolaou, Rosemary Saffoti CASTING DIRECTOR Nikki Barrett SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION MA15+ FILM.VIC.GOV.AU RUNNING TIME 96 mins RUNNING TIME 136 mins @FILMVICTORIA DISTRIBUTOR UNIVERSAL DISTRIBUTOR TRANSMISSION @FILMVIC RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER RELEASE MONTH AUGUST @FILMVIC FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 20 OUTBACK PALM BEACH

Down Under for an adventure-flled vacation, PALM BEACH is a drama/comedy about a young American couple quickly fnd a group of lifelong friends reuniting to themselves stranded in the unforgiving celebrate a special birthday. Sydney's iconic Australian outback. Palm Beach provides a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, PRODUCER Mike Green, Julie Kneebone, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, fowing Antonia Barnard wine and fantastic music, but tensions slowly DIRECTOR Mike Green mount and deep secrets soon emerge. SCREENWRITER Mike Green LEAD ACTOR Taylor Wiese PRODUCER Bryan Brown, LEAD ACTRESS Lauren Lofberg Deborah Balderstone SUPPORTING ACTOR Brendan Donoghue DIRECTOR Rachel Ward CINEMATOGRAPHER Tim Nagle SCREENWRITER Joanna Murray-Smith, EDITOR Alan Harca Rachel Ward COMPOSER Justin Bell LEAD ACTOR Bryan Brown SOUND Peter Climpson, Wayne Pashley, LEAD ACTRESS Greta Scacchi Derryn Pasquill, John Simpson SUPPORTING ACTOR Sam Neill, PRODUCTION DESIGNER Courtney Covey Richard E. Grant COSTUME DESIGNER Courtney Covey SUPPORTING ACTRESS Heather Mitchell, HAIR AND MAKEUP Lucy Woolfman Jacqueline McKenzie CINEMATOGRAPHER Bonnie Elliott EDITOR Nick Meyers COMPOSER The Teskey Brothers SOUND Angus Robertson, Phil Heywood, Ben Osmo PRODUCTION DESIGNER Melinda Doring COSTUME DESIGNER Joanna Mae Park CASTING DIRECTOR Kirsty McGregor

BEST INDIE FILM CANDIDATE SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION CTC CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 86 mins RUNNING TIME 98 mins DISTRIBUTOR MONSTERFEST DISTRIBUTOR UNIVERSAL RELEASE MONTH OCTOBER RELEASE MONTH AUGUST

FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 22 PIMPED PROMISED REFLECTIONS IN RIDE LIKE A GIRL THE DUST Sarah Montrose is a conficted, mysterious In Melbourne, 1953, fve-year-old Robert and The incredible true story of Michelle Payne - woman who meets the philosophical, newborn Angela are promised in marriage the frst woman to win the Melbourne Cup. smooth-talking Lewis Blake. Handsome and by their fathers, Sal and Joe. Against the An unspoken event has caused civilisation to crumble, leaving the survivors to cluster captivating, Lewis is the bait in a sick and misgivings of Angela’s mother, Sal is insistent PRODUCER Richard Keddie, Rachel Griffths, twisted game conjured up with his low-life- that he must uphold his promise to Joe. in the wilderness. Among them is a blind girl Susie Montague, Naomi Cleaver, rich-kid housemate, Kenneth. When the who struggles to survive with her father- a Felicity Stoward tormented and emotionally abusive clown. men's sexual game backfres, Sarah has to Fast-forward to 1974, and Angela is now DIRECTOR Rachel Griffths There is no future anymore, so the past do battle with a psychopath and her own a beautiful, intelligent and modern lady SCREENWRITER Elise McCredie, inner demon. whose aspirations lie beyond the family becomes their only resource for meaning. Andrew Knight pastry shop. Robert, now 25, has returned LEAD ACTOR Sam Neill Giovanni De Santolo, PRODUCER Annie Kinnane, David Barker home from studying law abroad at Oxford. PRODUCER LEAD ACTRESS Teresa Palmer Luke Sullivan, Carla Sullivan DIRECTOR David Barker Despite changing times, fading traditions SUPPORTING ACTOR Stevie Payne, Luke Sullivan SCREENWRITER David Barker, Lou Mentor and Angela’s love for another man, she is DIRECTOR Sullivan Stapleton Luke Sullivan LEAD ACTOR Benedict Samuel still expected to marry Robert. As a web SCREENWRITER SUPPORTING ACTRESS Genevieve Morris Robin Queree LEAD ACTRESS Ella Scott Lynch of secrets, lies and revelations surface, it LEAD ACTOR CINEMATOGRAPHER Martin McGrath Sarah Houbolt CINEMATOGRAPHER Joshua Flavell teaches everyone involved that love, like life, LEAD ACTRESS EDITOR Maria Papoutsis, Jill Bilcock Ryan Barry-Cotter EDITOR Marianne Khoo can never be perfectly arranged. CINEMATOGRAPHER COMPOSER David Hirschfelder Shaun Smith COMPOSER Pete Jones EDITOR SOUND Chris Goodes, John Wilkinson Dylan Sullivan PRODUCTION DESIGNER Bethany Ryan PRODUCER Nathan Primmer, Nick Conidi COMPOSER PRODUCTION DESIGNER Carrie Kennedy COSTUME DESIGNER Olivia Simpson DIRECTOR Nick Conidi, Nathan Primmer, COSTUME DESIGNER Cappi Ireland CASTING DIRECTOR Amanda Mitchell Tony Ferrieri HAIR AND MAKEUP Chiara Tripodi SCREENWRITER Nick Conidi CASTING DIRECTOR Nikki Barrett LEAD ACTOR Daniel Berini LEAD ACTRESS Antoinette Iesue SUPPORTING ACTOR Paul Mercurio, Santo Tripodi SUPPORTING ACTRESS Tina Arena CINEMATOGRAPHER Tony Ferrieri EDITOR Katie Flaxman COMPOSER Dorian West PRODUCTION DESIGNER Sean Dennis COSTUME DESIGNER Aphrodite Condos

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23 FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION FEATURE FILM IN COMPETITION 24 SEQUIN IN A SLAM BLUE ROOM Ricky is a Muslim refugee who is proudly assimilated into Australian culture. His After a chance encounter at an anonymous estranged sister Ameena, is a hijab-wearing, sex party, a sixteen-year-old boy hunts through politicised slam poet who is unafraid to the world of a hook-up app to track down the air her views on Australian society. When mystery man. Favouring the instant gratifcation Ameena disappears, Ricky is forced to revisit of anonymous, no-strings sexual encounters his internal conficts over his own identity as over meaningful relationships, high schooler he and his mother desperately search for her. Sequin is part of the always logged-on, but When the right-wing media seizes on the never engaged, hook-up generation. He story, speculating that Ameena has fed the ghosts ex-partners and remains emotionally country to join the Islamic State, the family unavailable. That's until he fnds his way to suffers a barrage of scrutiny - even as they an anonymous sex party, where a whole new fear it could be true. Joanne is the troubled dizzyingly alluring world unfolds before him. In police offcer in charge of investigating one scene, Sequin connects with a mysterious the case. stranger, but they are separated suddenly. Utterly fxated on this man, Sequin sets off on PRODUCER Michael Wrenn, Tenille Kennedy, an exhilarating and perilous mission. Marc Irmer DIRECTOR Partho Sen-Gupta Sophie Hattch, Linus Gibson PRODUCER SCREENWRITER Partho Sen-Gupta Samuel Van Grinsven DIRECTOR LEAD ACTOR Adam Bakri Samuel Van Grinsven, SCREENWRITER LEAD ACTRESS Rachael Blake Jory Anast SUPPORTING ACTRESS Rebecca Breeds, LEAD ACTOR Conor Leach Abbey Aziz Anthony Brandon SUPPORTING ACTOR CINEMATOGRAPHER Bonnie Elliott Wong, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Simon Croker, EDITOR Annick Raoul Ed Wrightman COMPOSER Eryck Abecassis Jay Grant, CINEMATOGRAPHER SOUND Paul Finlay Carina Burke PRODUCTION DESIGNER Clayton Jauncey Timothy Guthrie EDITOR COSTUME DESIGNER Shareen Beringer Brent Williams COMPOSER CASTING DIRECTOR Leigh Pickford SOUND Audrey Houssard, Stuart Melvey PRODUCTION DESIGNER Anna Gardiner COSTUME DESIGNER William Tran

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TELECAST PARTNER Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, Grieving the loss of her stillborn baby, Claire and they have just ten days to fnd Lauren's meets pregnant teenager Angie. Feisty mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in and irrepressible, Angie challenges Claire's the remote far north of Australia, reunite her careful control. Drawn into Angie's world, parents and pull off their dream wedding. Claire develops a dangerous obsession that risks both of their lives. Only when Claire is MAJOR GOVERNMENT SPONSOR PRODUCER Rosemary Blight, confronted with the terrible secret behind Kylie du Fresne, Kate Croser Angie's pregnancy can both women begin DIRECTOR Wayne Blair to heal. SCREENWRITER Joshua Tyler, Miranda Tapsell PRODUCER Lyn Norfor MAJOR PARTNERS LEAD ACTOR Gwilym Lee DIRECTOR Miranda Nation LEAD ACTRESS Miranda Tapsell SCREENWRITER Miranda Nation SUPPORTING ACTOR Huw Higginson LEAD ACTOR Rob Collins SUPPORTING ACTRESS Ursula Yovich, LEAD ACTRESS Laura Gordon Kerry Fox SUPPORTING ACTOR Josh Helman CINEMATOGRAPHER Eric Murray Lui SUPPORTING ACTRESS Olivia DeJonge SCREEN AGENCY PARTNERS EDITOR Chris Plummer CINEMATOGRAPHER Bonnie Elliott COMPOSER Antony Partos EDITOR Julie-Anne De Ruvo, Nick Meyers SOUND Robert Mackenzie, Tara Webb, COMPOSER Lisa Gerrard, James Orr, Raul Will Sheridan, Pete Smith Sanchez i Jorge PRODUCTION DESIGNER Amy Baker SOUND Liam Egan COSTUME DESIGNER Heather Wallace PRODUCTION DESIGNER OFFICIAL PARTNERS HAIR AND MAKEUP Beverley Freeman Penelope Southgate CASTING DIRECTOR Kirsty McGregor COSTUME DESIGNER Stacey O’Connor HAIR AND MAKEUP Marie Princi CASTING DIRECTOR Marianne Jade

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