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CONTENTS

WELCOME 4 GENERAL INFORMATION 5 ABOUT AFI | AACTA 7 HOW TO VOTE 9 AFI | AACTA MEMBERSHIP 10 GUEST PASSES 11

FILM INFORMATION SHORT FICTION FILM 13 SHORT ANIMATION 17 FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY 21 FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 25

SCREENINGS PROGRAM SYDNEY 45 MELBOURNE 47

NOTES 50 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 52

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Welcome to this year’s showcase of stars alongside Richard Roxburgh in LOOKING Welcome to the 6th AACTA Awards presented by in the Judges’ Handbook have been supplied outstanding Australian productions FOR GRACE, and cast and crew members of Presto Official Screenings Program, which are held and approved by the producer of each entered competing for our nation’s highest screen Mel Gibson’s highly anticipated HACKSAW for the purpose of judging the AACTA Awards. production. accolades – the AACTA Awards. RIDGE, with Sam Worthington, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths leading an SCREENINGS SCHEDULE VOTING This year sees 28 feature films in all-star cast. competition; another strong year for our Each film that has not previously screened as part AFI | AACTA members hold the exclusive privilege screen industry. The Official Screenings This year’s Official Screenings Program also of the year-round Members’ Events program will of voting in the AACTA Awards. Program provides your final opportunity to showcases the four Best Feature Length be screened once in Sydney and Melbourne. Please view films competing ahead of the voting Documentary nominees, capturing stories refer to the Screening Program starting on page 43 All votes will be submitted via an online voting form. period, complementing those films already of offshore detention centres CHASING( of this Judges’ Handbook. Only one voting form per AFI | AACTA member per screened throughout the year as a part of our ASYLUM), the slums of Brazil at a time of round will be accepted. Members’ Events Program which offers more significant uprising IN( THE SHADOW OF Every effort will be made to avoid changes to the screenings schedule, however in the event that AFI | AACTA acknowledges that it may not be than 80 screenings, events and masterclasses THE HILL), same-sex love at the height of possible for voting members to view all films in with cast and crew – all complimentary and conservatism and HIV/AIDS (REMEMBERING changes must be made, all members will receive direct email communication and changes will also competition. Therefore, individual member votes exclusive to our members, and anyone can ) and war-damaged children in THE MAN be noted on the AACTA website — www.aacta.org. shall be weighted to reflect the percentage of films join! Jalalabad (SNOW MONKEY). each member has seen.

A highlight of each AACTA Awards season I encourage all AFI and AACTA members to ADMISSION REGULATIONS Further information on voting is available on page 9 is seeing new filmmakers and performers view the great productions showcased in this of the Judges’ Handbook. competing alongside industry luminaries, and year’s Official Screenings Program - either AFI | AACTA members receive complimentary entry to all sessions upon presentation of their this year is no exception. at Event Cinemas Bondi Junction in Sydney, Ernst & Young is the scrutineer for the AACTA membership card at the cinema box office at the Awards. Cinema Nova in Melbourne, or online on time of screening. This year’s short film nominees see a number AACTA TV, available anytime, anywhere. of young filmmakers straight out of university All members are welcome to bring a guest to AACTA TV (THE ALBATROSS and FEMME ENFANT) I thank the industry for their tireless work selected screenings by using the complimentary competing with past AACTA Award winners, in producing outstanding productions for guest tickets located on page 11 of this handbook. The Feature Length Documentary, Short Fiction Film including Marieka Walsh (THE CROSSING). audiences to enjoy at home and abroad. I also To gain entry to the selected screening, members’ and Short Animation nominees and a selection of thank our valued sponsors and partners for guests must complete their details on the reverse Feature Films In Competition will be showcased for This year’s feature films in competition their generous support throughout the year. of the complimentary ticket and redeem this at the all AFI | AACTA members on AACTA TV during the showcase exciting new talent, with directorial And finally, I extend a heartfelt thanks to our cinema box office at the time of the screening. AACTA Awards Screenings period. debuts for almost half of the directors AFI and AACTA members, whose passion and To access AACTA TV, please visit competing, including who support allows us to promote and award our Please note that tickets cannot be obtained in Rosemary Myers www.aacta.org/aacta-tv. arrives at this year’s AACTA Awards with nation’s top screen productions, practitioners advance of screenings. international Festival hit GIRL ASLEEP, and and performers, creating new jobs and All seating is offered on a first come, first served ( ) who opportunities for nominees and winners. NOMINEES AND WINNERS Nicholas Verso BOYS IN THE TREES basis, and is strictly limited by the capacity of each just two years ago received the AACTA cinema. AFI | AACTA cannot guarantee entry to Award for Best Short Fiction Film – a career Enjoy the 6th AACTA Awards presented Nominees will be announced later in 2016. Winners popular sessions and suggests allowing enough will be announced and presented at the 6th AACTA path we’re delighted to see. by Presto Official Screenings Program, and time to ensure your entry. Awards presented by Presto in late 2016. continue your support by making your vote These emerging directors are showcased count. Persons under the age of 18 are restricted to alongside fellow directors who hold past sessions based on the classification listed for each MORE INFORMATION AFI or AACTA Award wins and nominations, film. Films without classification are restricted to including: Sue Brooks (JAPENESE STORY) persons aged 18 and over — proof of age may be For more information regarding AFI | AACTA who this year competes with LOOKING FOR required. Membership or the 6th AACTA Awards presented GRACE; and Ivan Sen (MYSTERY ROAD, by Presto Official Screenings Program, please Latecomers arriving after the scheduled start of a contact AFI | AACTA: BENEATH CLOUDS), whose GOLDSTONE Damian Trewhella recently opened Sydney Film Festival. screening may not be admitted. AFI | AACTA E: [email protected] Chief Executive Officer [email protected] Equally exciting is the return to Australian PRODUCTION DETAILS T: 1300 139 697 screens by some of our nation’s top W: www.aacta.org performers and filmmakers, includingSam The synopses and production details listed Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto and Anna Torv (THE DAUGHTER), Radha Mitchell who

4 WELCOME GENERAL INFORMATION 5 ABOUT AFI | AACTA

ABOUT AFI ABOUT AACTA SYDNEY The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was The Australian Academy of Cinema and created in 1958 by those with a passion for Television Arts (AACTA) was launched by the Winner of the International Festival film. Australian Film Institute (AFI) in August 2011, with the primary role of identifying, awarding, & Events Award 6 years in a row! Today, alongside the Australian Academy of promoting and celebrating Australia’s Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), which greatest achievements in film and television. For more great events go to sydney.com is the AFI’s professional membership body, the AFI continues to support, encourage and Australia has produced some of the best promote Australian screen culture. screen practitioners and productions in the world, and an important part of AACTA’s CALLING ALL SCREEN role is to recognise this through the annual AACTA Awards — Australia’s highest screen ENTHUSIASTS accolades. AFI members in Melbourne and Sydney join AACTA members (screen practitioners) at CONNECTING OUR more than 80+ complimentary year-round INDUSTRY events including screenings, Q&As and Masterclasses. Members nationwide receive AACTA is a not-for-profit, member cinema discounts, film festival discounts, film organisation. AACTA membership is granted magazine subscription discounts, access to exclusively to screen professionals, each monthly giveaways on Facebook, and access from a cross-section of the screen industry to AACTA TV online – showing feature films, including production across all screen feature length documentaries, short fiction crafts, distribution, exhibition and television films and short animations competing for the networks. AACTA Awards. AACTA is overseen by President Geoffrey AFI members also vote in the Best Short Rush and comprises 16 screen craft chapters, Fiction Film and Best Short Animation including cinematography and costume categories of the AACTA Awards. design, through to screenwriting and directing. AACTA Awards voting is based on chapter allocation, ensuring those best JOIN TODAY qualified to recognise excellence in their craft do so. By supporting AFI | AACTA through membership, you are helping to recognise Australia’s brightest and best screen talent, BECOME A MEMBER creating new opportunities for our industry. To vote in the AACTA Awards, and to receive To join and for more information visit invitations to year-round screenings and www.aacta.org. events (Melbourne and Sydney), online access to productions competing in the Awards (via AACTA TV) and other member benefits, apply to join at www.aacta.org.

ABOUT AFI | AACTA 7 ALL KINDS HOW TO VOTE OF PLAY AACTA MEMBERS Featuring all-star chefs and restaurants, AFI MEMBERS luxurious accommodation and high-end fashion, In line with best practice international models, a sumptuous day spa, a glamorous nightclub, the 6th AACTA Awards presented by Presto Membership of the Australian Film Institute and of course, the world-class casino, The Star will again employ a two-step model for (AFI) is open to all screen enthusiasts. AFI Sydney is Australia’s premier place to play. Feature Film voting. members are provided the opportunity to 80 Pyrmont Street, Pyrmont • star.com.au vote in the categories of Best Short Fiction Feature Film voting is open to AACTA Film and Best Short Animation in the members — screen professionals who have 6th AACTA Awards presented by Presto. undergone an accreditation process to become an AACTA member. For more information on voting, please visit www.aacta.org. In round one of Feature Film voting, each chapter of AACTA votes to determine a short list of nominees in the applicable award category specific to that chapter.

In round two, all members of AACTA can vote on these shortlists of nominees to determine a winner.

This two-step model allows for a more consistent and rigorous approach to voting, and will ensure that practitioners best qualified to recognise excellence in their specific crafts are short listing nominees on which the broader AACTA membership then votes.

Juries of industry professionals have determined nominees for the AACTA Awards for Best Short Fiction Film, Best Short Animation and Best Feature Length Documentary.

All AACTA members vote to determine the winners in these categories.

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Whether your passion leads you centre Voting in the AACTA Awards is an important stage, behind the camera, or front row in member privilege; AACTA members vote GUEST PASS a cinema, AFI | AACTA events provide a in more than 40 Awards across feature unique opportunity to see Australian film and film, television, documentary and short film, ADMIT ONE television exclusives, and to catch up with while AFI members vote in the short film friends, filmmakers and colleagues across all categories. screen crafts. The AACTA Awards promote our best and AFI membership is open to all screen brightest at home and abroad. They drive enthusiasts, while AACTA membership sales and see our stories and culture as is open to screen practitioners and captured on the big and small screens shared professionals. internationally. ENJOY EXCLUSIVE With 75% of AACTA Award winners receiving 6th AACTA AWARDS PRESENTED BY PRESTO new opportunities and a third receiving new YEAR-ROUND EVENTS funding as a direct result of their win, your vote matters! AFI and AACTA members in NSW and SCREENINGS Victoria receive complimentary and exclusive access to our Screen Culture and Industry SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Development Member Program. The program now delivers more than 80 year-round feature By supporting AFI | AACTA, you’re film, television, documentary and short film supporting new initiatives, including our #SocialShorts short film competition for GUEST PASS screenings and events, including Q&As with cast and crew and masterclasses. emerging talent, as well as our work in administering and producing the AACTA ADMIT ONE Screenings and events are held at Sydney’s Awards. Event Cinemas Bondi Junction (also home to the AACTA Bar – a great place to network With more than 93% of AFI and AACTA post-event) and Melbourne’s Cinema Nova members surveyed recommending (a fantastic home for the program in membership, now is the time to join, and Melbourne). show your support for our industry.

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Members worldwide can enjoy exclusive online access to the majority of productions competing for the AACTA Awards via GUEST PASS AACTA TV – a convenient way to watch and vote! ADMIT ONE 10 AFI | AACTA MEMBERSHIP 6th AACTA AWARDS PRESENTED BY PRESTO SCREENINGS Complete your details below and redeem this pass at the box office to attend a screening with an accompanying AFI or AACTA member.

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This pass permits single entry and is not transferable. Not valid for Opening Night or events marked with * in the program. Seating is unreserved and AFI | AACTA cannot guarantee entry to popular sessions. To use this Guest Pass you must be SHORT FICTION FILM 13 accompanied by an AFI or AACTA member with a valid membership card. For further information, please visit www.aacta.org. HOMEBODIES NATHAN LOVES RICKY MARTIN Shannon cooks dinner whilst speaking to a perverted stranger online. Andrew takes Pauline is the full-time mother and carer for a bath wrapped in seared Christmas lights. her mentally and developmentally disabled What could possibly shock these lost souls adult son Nathan. After years of isolation from their malaise? and anhedonia Pauline orchestrates a ruse to form a meaningful connection with the PRODUCER Yianni Warnock, man next door. Charles Williams DIRECTOR Yianni Warnock PRODUCER Steven Arriagada, Llewellyn Michael Bates, Bryan Chau DIRECTOR Steven Arriagada

RUNNING TIME 13 mins RUNNING TIME 7 mins

SHORT FICTION FILM 15 THE ALBATROSS THE CROSSING

In the centre of a freezing, misty lake, a A stop-motion animation created out of salt struggling writer’s solitary fishing trip is and sand. A sea captain risks the lives of disrupted by a strange creature from the his men when he decides to change course, bottom of a whiskey bottle. taking his ship through a violent storm. In the aftermath, he is haunted by his decision, PRODUCER Joel Best, Alex Jeremy, and fights to survive both body and mind. Alex Karonis DIRECTOR Joel Best, Alex Jeremy, PRODUCER Donna Chang Alex Karonis DIRECTOR Marieka Walsh

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@screenaustralia SHORT ANIMATION 17 FEMME ENFANT OSCAR WILDE’S ‘THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE Frida, a barren artist, experiences the joys and fears of pregnancy through her ROSE’ surrealistic paintings. Inspired by the story of Frida Kahlo and the female surrealists of A Nightingale embarks on a perilous quest the early 20th Century. to find a single red rose for her beloved - so that he may win the heart of the Professor’s PRODUCER Grace Lim Daughter. But such a gift comes at a chilling DIRECTOR Bonnie Forsyth price. The ritual the Nightingale must put herself through to summon the red rose into being is an orgasmic collision of love, death and nature. The world of the true lover will never be the same again. Based on the classic fairytale by Oscar Wilde.

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6 FINAL FM AACTA MP AD - 210hx148w (A5).indd 1 8/07/2016 10:17 AM CHASING ASYLUM IN THE SHADOW OF THE HILL CHASING ASYLUM exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention The residents of Rio de Janeiro’s largest policies and explores how “The Lucky slum seek justice for a local man they Country” became a country where leaders believe has been murdered by the police. In choose detention over compassion and the face of brutal oppression, together they governments deprive the desperate of their start a protest movement that will change basic human rights. The film features never the course of Brazilian history. before seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the PRODUCER Dan Jackson personal impact of sending those in search DIRECTOR Dan Jackson of a safe home to languish in limbo. Chasing EDITOR Steven Robinson ase, Dan Jackson Asylum explores the mental, physical SOUND Mark Street, Doron Kipen and fiscal consequences of Australia’s CINEMATOGRAPHER Dan Jackson decision to lock away families in unsanitary COMPOSER Kevin Kiner conditions hidden from media scrutiny, destroying their lives under the pretext of saving them.

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REMEMBERING SNOW MONKEY THE MAN SNOW MONKEY is an epic portrait of daily life in Jalalabad, where art activist Gittoes At a prestigious Australian Catholic recruited gangs of war-damaged children boys school in the 1970s, Tim Conigrave to shoot local, Pashto-style films: vibrant, and John Caleo fell madly in love. Their colourful and infused with the violence they passionate, tempestuous, operatic romance experience on a daily basis. lasted for 16 years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming PRODUCER Lizzette Atkins, George Gittoes shadow of the Grim Reaper. Their star DIRECTOR George Gittoes cross’d relationship was immortalized in EDITOR Nick Meyers Timothy Conigrave’s memoir Holding the SOUND David White Man, and has been adapted for stage and CINEMATOGRAPHER Waqar Alam, screen. This is the true story of how Romeo Amir Shah Talash, George Gittoes met Romeo and what happened ever after. COMPOSER Hellen Rose, Hugo Race

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In the sequel comedy to the worldwide hit Frank Mollard wont admit it, but he can’t A FEW BEST MEN, David, Tom and Graham move on. Divorced but still attached, he MUSIC must transport their mate’s coffin back to can’t sell a house in a property boom - London after a forced plane landing strands much less connect with his teenage son. them in the middle of the Australian bush. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary. Apart PRODUCER Tania Chambers, from the fact that she died the year before. Laurence Malkin, Share Stallings A MONTH OF SUNDAYS is about parents, FILM DIRECTOR Mark Lamprell ADG children, regrets, mourning, moments of WRITER Dean Craig joy, houses, homes, love, work, jazz fusion: EDITOR Marc Van Buuren about ordinary people and improbable SOUND Scott Montgomery, Chris O’Shea, salvation. Because everyone deserves a Chris Goodes, Liesl Pieterse, Steve Burgess second chance. Even a real estate agent. Andy Wright CINEMATOGRAPHER Steve Arnold ACS PRODUCER Nick Batzias SPA COMPOSER David Hirschfelder AGSC Kirsty Stark, Matthew Saville PRODUCTION DESIGNER Emma Fletcher DIRECTOR Matthew Saville COSTUME DESIGNER Lisa Gunning WRITER Matthew Saville LEAD ACTOR Xavier Samuel EDITOR Ken Sallows ASE SUPPORTING ACTOR Kevin Bishop, SOUND Peter Smith, Tom Heuzenroeder TELEVISION Kris Marshall, Shane Jacobson, CINEMATOGRAPHER Mark Wareham ACS Darren Gilshenan COMPOSER Bryony Marks SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lynette Curran PRODUCTION DESIGNER Robert Webb COSTUME DESIGNER Anita Seiler LEAD ACTOR Anthony LaPaglia LEAD ACTRESS Julia Blake THEATRE SUPPORTING ACTOR John Clarke SUPPORTING ACTRESS Justine Clarke HAIR AND MAKEUP Tracy Phillpot Providing practical and business-focused legal services to the entertainment and media industry for over 35 years

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Psychologist Peter Bower’s life is thrown Deep in the slums of Manila, a broken-down into turmoil when he discovers that the US expat pressures his half-Filipino son to patients he has been seeing are ghosts. cheat in a small-time boxing match. The Downriver / Tomorrow, When the War Began / Barracuda Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his result: the son’s opponent, a local Filipino past to uncover a terrifying secret which fighter, dies from a brain hemorrhage. only he can put right. When the opponent’s wife uncovers their crime and the police get involved, the son PRODUCER Jamie Hilton, is forced to make a decision - stick by the Antonia Barnard SPA, father he loves so much, or risk everything Michael Petroni ADG to keep the wife and her young son safe. DIRECTOR Michael Petroni ADG WRITER Michael Petroni ADG PRODUCER Robert Coe, Will Jaymes EDITOR Martin Connor ASE Bianca Balbuena SOUND Paul ‘Salty’ Brincat, Ben Wyatt, DIRECTOR Tom McKeith, Sam McKeith Tara Webb, Justine Angus, Sam Hayward, WRITER Will Jaymes, Tom McKeith, Robert Mackenzie Sam McKeith CINEMATOGRAPHER Stefan Duscio ACS EDITOR Paul Murphy FILM COMPOSER Dale Cornelius SOUND Liam Egan PRODUCTION DESIGNER CINEMATOGRAPHER Michael Steel Elizabeth Mary Moore APDG PRODUCTION DESIGNER Ericson Navarro VIctoria COSTUME DESIGNER Justine Seymour LEAD ACTOR Chad McKinney, LEAD ACTOR Adrien Brody Garret Dillahunt SUPPORTING ACTOR Sam Neill, LEAD ACTRESS Angeli Bayani George Shevtsov SUPPORTING ACTOR Will Jaymes, supporting the SUPPORTING ACTRESS Robin McLeavy, Whyzel Myo Indonto Jenni Baird HAIR AND MAKEUP Katherine Brown, ViCtoriAn sCreen inDustrY Paul Katte, Nick Nicolaou AnD the 6th AACtA AWArDs presenteD bY presto

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How can our BOYS IN THE TREES BROKE performance help yours? At EY, we bring together high-performing It’s Halloween 1997 - the last night of high An ageing rail worker, Cec, finds his former teams of media and entertainment school for Corey and his skater gang, The footy hero turned washed up gambling professionals with deep technical experience Gromits. When Corey encounters Jonah, addict, Ben ‘BK’ Kelly passed out late providing assurance, tax, transaction and a former childhood friend now victimised one evening and decides to take him in. advisory services to industry leaders. ey.com/au/entertainment #BetterQuestions by The Gromits, he takes pity on him and Through the love and support of Cec and agrees to walk him home. What starts off his single parent daughter, Terri, BK finally as a normal walk through empty suburban finds the courage he was once famous for streets descends into something darker on the field, off it, to tackle his demons and magical. As they walk through their head on and ultimately win back the memories and ghosts of the past, Corey is respect of the community he so deeply let surprised to discover how much he still has down. in common with his abandoned friend. But © 2016 Ernst & Young, Australia. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. Standards under Professional approved a scheme by limited Liability All Rights Reserved. Australia. & Young, © 2016 Ernst number:SCORE AU00002684. PH1629609 just as their friendship appears rekindled, PRODUCER Luke Graham SPA a tragic truth may mean he’s made his DIRECTOR Heath Davis discovery all too late. WRITER Heath Davis EDITOR Mat Evans PRODUCER John Molloy SOUND Sasha Zastavnikovic DIRECTOR Nicholas Verso COMPOSER Samuel Lockwood, WRITER Nicholas Verso Heather Shannon EDITOR Nicholas Verso PRODUCTION DESIGNER Roger Wong SOUND Emma Bortignon, LEAD ACTOR Steve Le Marquand Tom Heuzenroeder, Gethin Creagh ASSG LEAD ACTRESS Claire Van Der Boom Des Kenneally ASSG SUPPORTING ACTOR Max Cullen, CINEMATOGRAPHER Marden Dean Justin Rosniak, Steve Bastoni COMPOSER Darrin Verhagen PRODUCTION DESIGNER Robert Webb COSTUME DESIGNER Erin Roche APDG THE LEAD ACTOR Toby Wallace SUPPORTING ACTOR Gulliver McGrath, Justin Holborow SUPPORTING ACTRESS Mitzi Ruhlmann WHOLE HAIR AND MAKEUP Beverley Freeman

SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY STORY CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 112 mins RUNNING TIME 98 mins DISTRIBUTOR MUSHROOM PICTURES PTY LTD DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2016 RELEASED APRIL 2016 VISIT THESATURDAYPAPER.COM.AU FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 29 DOWNRIVER DOWN UNDER EARLY WINTER EMBEDDED

James has served time for drowning a little On the 11th of December 2005 a frenzied David, a man in his forties, lives a Frank meets Madaline at a cocktail party boy when he was a child, although the body mob of 5000 white Australians fuelled by predictable life with his wife Maya and their held at a World Bank conference. He’s was never found in the river. A visit from alcohol and stupidity violently attacked two children. To please his wife with the a foreign correspondent whose recent his victim’s mother upon parole sends him anyone of middle eastern appearance latest gadgets, he works solitary shift work, work in Mali has left him traumatised. As on a quest to find the truth. With little time that dared to enter the beachside suburb days and nights, as a janitor in a retirement the erotic connection between Frank and and danger at every turn, James risks his of Cronulla. DOWN UNDER is the story home. But when he begins to suspect that Madaline deepens, each gradually reveal freedom and his life to uncover the trail of of two cars full of angry young men from Maya is having an affair, he starts to lose secrets from their past that could have sins that might give closure to the grieving both sides of the fight. They don’t know ground, his past threatening to smash deadly consequences. mother. it yet but their worlds are going to collide everything in his path. tragically and it is too late for any of them PRODUCER Steve Jaggi SPA PRODUCER Jannine Barnes SPA to back down. PRODUCER Serge Noel, Trish Lake DIRECTOR Stephen Sewell DIRECTOR Grant Scicluna ADG DIRECTOR Michael Rowe WRITER Stephen Sewell WRITER Grant Scicluna ADG PRODUCER Jodi Matterson WRITER Michael Rowe EDITOR Adrian Powers EDITOR Anthony Cox ASE DIRECTOR Abe Forsythe EDITOR Geoff Lamb SOUND Lawrence Horne SOUND Emma Bortignon, Sam Hayward, WRITER Abe Forsythe SOUND Simon Hicks CINEMATOGRAPHER Dane Cody EDITOR Drew Thompson ASE CINEMATOGRAPHER Nicolas Canniccioni Rhiannon Bannenberg CINEMATOGRAPHER László Baranyai ACS SOUND Rob McKenzie, Andy Wright, Nick COMPOSER Amy Bastow COMPOSER Matt Rudduck, Ned McPhie PRODUCTION DESIGNER Emond PRODUCTION DESIGNER Pierre Allard PRODUCTION DESIGNER Karla Urizar Penelope Southgate CINEMATOGRAPHER Lachlan Milne ACS COSTUME DESIGNER Alexandra Sawicki COSTUME DESIGNER Karla Urizar COSTUME DESIGNER Michael Chisholm COMPOSER Piers Burbrook de Vere LEAD ACTOR Paul Doucet LEAD ACTOR Nick Barkla LEAD ACTOR Reef Ireland PRODUCTION DESIGNER Nicholas Dare LEAD ACTRESS Suzanne Clément LEAD ACTRESS Laura Gordon SUPPORTING ACTOR Thom Green, COSTUME DESIGNER Leon Krasenstein SUPPORTING ACTOR Ryan Harrison Robert Taylor LEAD ACTOR Alexander England, HAIR AND MAKEUP SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kerry Fox Lincoln Younes Michelle Michaelson SUPPORTING ACTOR Christopher Bunton, Rahel Romahn, Damon Herriman, Michael Denkha SUPPORTING ACTRESS Harriet Dyer HAIR AND MAKEUP Troy Follington

SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION TBC CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION TBC RUNNING TIME 99 mins RUNNING TIME 95 mins RUNNING TIME 96 mins RUNNING TIME 82 mins DISTRIBUTOR RIALTO DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTOR STUDIO CANAL DISTRIBUTOR RIALTO DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTOR FAN-FORCE RELEASED JUNE 2016 RELEASED AUGUST 2016 RELEASED AUGUST 2016 RELEASED AUGUST 2016

30 FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 31 GIRL ASLEEP GODS OF EGYPT

Fifteen is going to turn a corner. It has to. In this spectacular action-adventure inspired The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. by the mythology of Egypt, the survival On the cusp of turning fifteen she can’t of mankind hangs in the balance as an bear to leave her childhood, it contains unexpected mortal hero, Bek, undertakes all the things that give her comfort in this a thrilling journey to save the world and incomprehensible new world. She floats in rescue his true love. In order to succeed, he enlists the help of the powerful god a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Horus in an unlikely alliance against Set, Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise the merciless god of darkness, who has 15th birthday party and she’s flung into a usurped Egypt’s throne and plunged the parallel place; a world that’s weirdly erotic, once peaceful and prosperous empire into a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous- chaos. As their breathtaking battle against only there can she find herself. Set and his henchmen takes them into the afterlife and across the heavens, both god PRODUCER Jo Dyer and mortal must pass tests of courage and DIRECTOR Rosemary Myers sacrifice if they hope to prevail in the epic WRITER Matthew Whittet final confrontation. EDITOR Karryn de Cinque SOUND Luke Smiles, Pete Best PRODUCER Basil Iwanyk, Alex Proyas CINEMATOGRAPHER Andrew Commis ACS DIRECTOR Alex Proyas COMPOSER Harry Covill EDITOR Richard Learoyd PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jonathon Oxlade SOUND Wayne Pashley, Peter Grace, COSTUME DESIGNER Jonathon Oxlade Derrin Pasquill, Fabian Sanjurjo, LEAD ACTOR Harrison Feldman Greg P. Fitzgerald, Peter Purcell Peter Menzies, Jr. LEAD ACTRESS Bethany Whitmore CINEMATOGRAPHER COMPOSER Marco Beltrami SUPPORTING ACTOR Matthew Whittet PRODUCTION DESIGNER Owen Paterson SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amber McMahon COSTUME DESIGNER Liz Palmer HAIR AND MAKEUP Catherine Biggs LEAD ACTOR Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites : will screen as Important Note GIRL ASLEEP Geoffrey Rush, part of our year-round Member Events program SUPPORTING ACTOR in Sydney at Event Cinemas Bondi Junction on Rufus Sewell, Chadwick Boseman Monday 22 August, and therefore does not screen SUPPORTING ACTRESS Elodie Yung, during the Official Screenings Program in Sydney Courtney Eaton as it does in Melbourne. HAIR AND MAKEUP Lesley Vanderwalt, Lara Jade Birch, Elka Wardega

SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘GIRL ASLEEP’ BY MATTHEW WHITTET SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 77 mins RUNNING TIME 127 mins DISTRIBUTOR UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT DISTRIBUTOR ENTERTAINMENT ONE FILMS RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2016 RELEASED FEBRUARY 2016

FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 33 GOLDSTONE HACKSAW RIDGE

Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true in the frontier town of “Goldstone” on a story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa missing persons enquiry. What seems like during one of the bloodiest battles of a simple “light duties” investigation opens WWII, saved 75 men without firing or into a web of crime and corruption. Jay carrying a gun. He was the only American must pull his life together and bury his soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that personal differences with young local cop while the war was justified, killing was Josh, so together they can bring justice to nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he Goldstone. single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while PRODUCER Greer Simpkin, David Jowsey tending to soldiers and was wounded by a DIRECTOR Ivan Sen grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the WRITER Ivan Sen first conscientious objector to be awarded EDITOR Ivan Sen the Congressional Medal of Honor. SOUND Thom Kellar, Sam Hayward, Nick Emond, Les Fiddess PRODUCER Bill Mechanic, Bruce Davey, CINEMATOGRAPHER Ivan Sen David Permut, Terry Benedict, Paul Currie, COMPOSER Ivan Sen William D. Johnson, Brian Oliver, PRODUCTION DESIGNER Matt Putland Tylet Thompson COSTUME DESIGNER Vanessa Loh DIRECTOR Mel Gibson LEAD ACTOR Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell WRITER Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight LEAD ACTRESS Jacki Weaver EDITOR John Gilbert SUPPORTING ACTOR David Gulpilil, SOUND Peter Grace David Wenham, Tom E Lewis CINEMATOGRAPHER Simon Duggan SUPPORTING ACTRESS COMPOSER Rupert Gregson-Williams Michelle Lim Davidson PRODUCTION DESIGNER Barry Robison HAIR AND MAKEUP Jennifer Rossiter COSTUME DESIGNER Lizzy Gardiner LEAD ACTOR Andrew Garfield LEAD ACTRESS Teresa Palmer SUPPORTING ACTOR Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving, Luke Bracey SUPPORTING ACTRESS Rachel Griffiths HAIR AND MAKEUP Warren Hanneman

Important Note: Screening times TBC

SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION TBC RUNNING TIME 110 mins RUNNING TIME 130 mins DISTRIBUTOR TRANSMISSION FILMS DISTRIBUTOR ICON FILM DISTRIBUTION RELEASED JULY 2016 RELEASED NOVEMBER 2016

FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 35 JOE CINQUE’S LOOKING FOR GRACE CONSOLATION LOOKING FOR GRACE is an intimate, funny and profoundly moving story about the In late 1997 Anu Singh, a beautiful law- complexities of family life. When rebellious student in Canberra, killed her boyfriend 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated Joe Cinque after months of telling friends mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to- and colleagues she planned to kill herself retirement detective, and begin the long and take him with her. Despite the warnings, drive from Perth out to the West Australian no one stopped her. JOE CINQUE’S wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, CONSOLATION is the screen adaptation of the two must confront the realities of their Helen Garner’s celebrated account of those changing relationship to one another, and events – a psychological crime drama that to their daughter. examines Joe and Anu’s relationship and the circumstances that led to the tragedy. PRODUCER Lizzette Atkins, Sue Taylor, Alison Tilson PRODUCER Matt Reeder, Sotiris Dounoukos DIRECTOR Sue Brooks ADG DIRECTOR Sotiris Dounoukos WRITER Sue Brooks ADG WRITER Matt Rubinstein, Sotiris Dounoukos EDITOR Peter Carrodus ASE EDITOR Angelos Angelidis, Martin Connor SOUND Chris Goodes SOUND Phil Heywood, Sam Gain Emery, CINEMATOGRAPHER Katie Milwright Liam Price, Justine Angus COMPOSER Elizabeth Drake CINEMATOGRAPHER Simon Chapman ACS PRODUCTION DESIGNER Clayton Jauncey COMPOSER Antonio Gambale COSTUME DESIGNER Terri Lamera PRODUCTION DESIGNER Marisa Martin LEAD ACTOR Richard Roxburgh COSTUME DESIGNER Danielle Alexander LEAD ACTRESS Radha Mitchell LEAD ACTOR Jerome Meyer SUPPORTING ACTOR Terry Norris LEAD ACTRESS Maggie Naouri SUPPORTING ACTRESS Odessa Young SUPPORTING ACTOR Josh McConville, Jacob Collins-Levy SUPPORTING ACTRESS Laura Gordon, Gia Carides HAIR AND MAKEUP Toni French

SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘JOE CINQUE’S CONSOLATION’ BY HELEN GARNER SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CLASSIFICATION TBC CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 102 mins RUNNING TIME 100 mins DISTRIBUTOR TITAN VIEW DISTRIBUTOR PALACE FILMS RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2016 RELEASED JANUARY 2016

FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 37 PAWNO RED BILLABONG SCARE CAMPAIGN SPEAR

PAWNO is a character driven ensemble In the Australian Outback, two brothers Popular TV prank show, Scare Campaign, A young man reconciles ancient tradition film set in the diverse and multicultural discover old secrets and family lies. As their has been entertaining audiences for the last with the modern, urban world in this debut suburb of Footscray in Melbourne, Australia. friends start to go missing they fear they five years with its mix of old school scares feature from Stephen Page, artistic director It revolves around one day in the lives are being stalked by someone or something and hidden camera fun. But as we enter a of Australia’s renowned Bangarra Dance of twelve characters. The film is set in from their worst nightmares - But is it just - new age of online TV, the producers find Theatre. an ageing Pawnbrokers and at the core A story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real? themselves up against a new hard-edged of the story beats a romance, yet love is web series which makes their show look PRODUCER John Harvey rarely simple. Within a day, lives intersect PRODUCER Luke Sparke SPA, decidedly quaint. It’s time to up the ante, DIRECTOR Stephen Page and motives are examined. It is a multi- Carly Imrie SPA but will the team go too far this time, and WRITER Justin Monjo, Stephen Page layered story that celebrates the rawness of DIRECTOR Luke Sparke SPA are they about to prank the wrong guy? EDITOR Simon Njoo humanity and challenges audiences to see WRITER Luke Sparke SPA SOUND Andy Wright the world from a different view. EDITOR Michael Gilbert PRODUCER Julie Ryan CINEMATOGRAPHER Bonnie Elliott SOUND Ian Grant, Thom Kellar, Ben Vlad DIRECTOR Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes COMPOSER David Page PRODUCER Paul Ireland, Damian Hill Ben Stewart WRITER Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jacob Nash DIRECTOR Paul Ireland CINEMATOGRAPHER Andrew Conder ACS EDITOR Adam White, Dale Dunne COSTUME DESIGNER Jennifer Irwin WRITER Damian Hill COMPOSER Jason Ferdandez SOUND Steve Burgess, Chris Goodes LEAD ACTOR Hunter Page-Lochard EDITOR Gary Woodyard PRODUCTION DESIGNER Adam Head CINEMATOGRAPHER John Brawley SUPPORTING ACTOR Aaron Perdersen, SOUND Paul Pirola COSTUME DESIGNER Tracey Sparke COMPOSER Glenn Richards Djakapurra Munyarryun CINEMATOGRAPHER LEAD ACTOR Dan Ewing, Tim Pocock PRODUCTION DESIGNER Justin Dix SUPPORTING ACTRESS Elma Kris Shelley Farthing-Dawe LEAD ACTRESS Sophie Don COSTUME DESIGNER Esther Marie Hayes COMPOSER Tristan Dewey, Tai Jordan SUPPORTING ACTOR LEAD ACTOR Ian Meadows LEAD ACTOR John Brumpton, Damian Hill Ben Chisholm, Felix Williamson, Greg Fryer LEAD ACTRESS Meegan Warner LEAD ACTRESS Maeve Dermody SUPPORTING ACTRESS SUPPORTING ACTOR Josh Quong Tart SUPPORTING ACTOR Malcolm Kennard, Emily Joy, Jessica Green SUPPORTING ACTRESS Olivia DeJonge Mark Coles Smith, Tony Rickards, HAIR AND MAKEUP Carly Imrie HAIR AND MAKEUP Mia’kate Russell Brad McMurray SUPPORTING ACTRESS Naomi Rukavina, Kerry Armstrong, Ngoc Phan

SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM SPEAR AND SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OTHER BANGARRA THEATRE PRODUCTIONS CLASSIFICATION MA15+ BY STEPHEN PAGE AND THE BANGARRA SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY RUNNING TIME 80 mins DANCE THEATRE CLASSIFICATION MA15+ CLASSIFICATION MA15+ DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS (THEATRICAL), CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 89 mins RUNNING TIME 108 mins MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT (HOME RUNNING TIME 84 mins DISTRIBUTOR MIND BLOWING WORLD DISTRIBUTOR PINNACLE FILMS ENTERTAINMENT) DISTRIBUTOR CINEMAPLUS RELEASED APRIL 2016 RELEASED AUGUST 2016 RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2015 RELEASED MARCH 2016

38 FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 39 SPIN OUT SPIRIT OF THE GAME SUCKER TANNA

Billy and Lucy have grown up together in a It’s 1956 and 20 year old Delyle Condie Lawrence Leung is a 17-year-old Chinese- TANNA is set in the South Pacific where small, close-knit country town, where they travels to Melbourne on a Mission for Australian who cheats on his final high Wawa, a young girl from one of the last form one of the town’s most formidable his Church in an attempt to recover school exams, sabotaging his family’s traditional tribes, falls in love with her Ute driving teams. When Billy takes one from a broken heart. He leaves behind long-standing plan for him to become chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter- risky car stunt too far, Lucy declares she a promising basketball career and finds a doctor. Banished to his uncle’s for the tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly is moving to the city - sending Billy into himself struggling to maintain his spirits summer, Lawrence meets “The Professor”, betrothed as part of a peace deal. The a spin. Amid the mayhem of the town’s when faced with the indifference of the a colourful, ageing conman. So begins young lovers run away, but are pursued annual “Bachelors and Spinsters” party, locals. When an opportunity to help train a road-trip with the Professor and his by enemy warriors intent on killing them. Billy only has one night to wake up to his Australia’s first Olympic basketball team beautiful daughter and accomplice, Sarah. They must choose between their hearts true feelings for his best friend - or lose her arises, Delyle sees his chance to connect. From the Professor, Lawrence learns the art and the future of the tribe, while the forever. His passion leads to the formation of the of swindling and cheating. From Sarah, he villagers must wrestle with preserving their Mormon Yankees, and in the run up to the learns a hard lesson in unrequited love. As traditional culture and adapting it to the PRODUCER Marc Gracie SPA, Games, fierce competition with the French Lawrence and the Professor work towards increasing outside demands for individual David Redman SPA leads to a bloody rematch, through which their biggest scam, Sarah and Lawrence freedom. TANNA is based on a true story DIRECTOR Marc Gracie SPA Delyle and his Yankees are able to prove plan a swindle of their own - forcing and performed by the people of Yakel in Tim Ferguson their faith. Lawrence to make a choice between love, Vanuatu. WRITER Tim Ferguson, Edwina Exton life and lies. EDITOR Ken Sallows ASE PRODUCER Kate Whitbread, PRODUCER Martin Butler ADG, SOUND Michael Slater, Scott Findlay, Spencer McLaren, Steve Jaggi SPA DIRECTOR Ben Chessell Bentley Dean ADG, Carolyn Johnson Greg Burgmann DIRECTOR J.D. Scott WRITER Lawrence Leung, Ben Chessell DIRECTOR Bentley Dean ADG, CINEMATOGRAPHER Justin Brickle WRITER J.D. Scott EDITOR Rodrigo Balart Martin Butler ADG COMPOSER Jon Hume EDITOR Adrian Powers SOUND Paul Shanahan WRITER Bentley Dean ADG, PRODUCTION DESIGNER Ralph Moser SOUND Michael Slater CINEMATOGRAPHER Katie Milwright Martin Butler ADG, John Collee COSTUME DESIGNER Aphrodite Kondos CINEMATOGRAPHER Brian Breheny COMPOSER Paul Mac EDITOR Tania Michel Nehme ASE LEAD ACTOR Xavier Samuel COMPOSER Ned McPhie, Matt Rudduck PRODUCTION DESIGNER SOUND Emma Bortignon, James Ashton, LEAD ACTRESS Morgan Griffin PRODUCTION DESIGNER Adele Flere Otello Stolfo APDG Martin Butler ADG SUPPORTING ACTOR Travis Jeffery, COSTUME DESIGNER Andrew Infanti COSTUME DESIGNER Anna Borghesi CINEMATOGRAPHER Lincoln Lewis LEAD ACTOR Aaron Jakubenko LEAD ACTOR John Luc Bentley Dean ADG SUPPORTING ACTRESS Melissa Bergland, SUPPORTING ACTOR Wade Briggs, LEAD ACTRESS Lily Sullivan COMPOSER Antony Partos AGSC Christie Whelan Browne, Grant Piro, Kevin Sorbo, Mark Mitchell SUPPORTING ACTOR Timothy Spall, LEAD ACTOR Mungau Dain Brooke McClymont SUPPORTING ACTRESS Anna McGahan, Yang Li LEAD ACTRESS Marie Wawa HAIR AND MAKEUP Christine Miller Heidi Arena HAIR AND MAKEUP Heather Ross SUPPORTING ACTOR Lingai Kawia HAIR AND MAKEUP Helen Magelaki SUPPORTING ACTRESS Marcelline Rofit

SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘SUCKER’ STAGE SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY PLAY BY LAURENCE LEUNG SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CLASSIFICATION TBC CLASSIFICATION TBC CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 88 mins RUNNING TIME 100 mins RUNNING TIME 90 mins RUNNING TIME 104 mins DISTRIBUTOR SONY RELEASING AUSTRALIA DISTRIBUTOR MOMO FILMS DISTRIBUTOR MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS & CONTACT FILMS RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2016 RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2016 RELEASED DECEMBER 2015 RELEASED NOVEMBER 2015

40 FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 41 TEENAGE KICKS THE DAUGHTER THE MENKOFF METHOD WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF THE DEAD In the final moments of his 17th year, Miklós’ THE DAUGHTER follows Christian who David is an Endo Bank employee and world has come crumbling down. His plans returns to his family home for his father would-be Manga author/artist. Endless Barry is a talented mechanic and family to run away and escape the hold of his Henry’s wedding to the much younger faceless people. He does as little work as man whose life is torn apart on the eve of migrant family have been brutally undone Anna. While home, Christian reconnects he can get away with. D’uh! There’s his a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, by the accidental death of his older brother, with his childhood friend Oliver, who has novel to finish for a competition deadline! is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas- Tomi. Only Mik knows the events that led to stayed in town working at Henry’s timber Fame and fortune – Yay! Way more masked soldiers and experimented on by this tragedy and as far as he can see there mill and is now out of a job. As Christian important. But his cushy job is under threat. a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans is only one person to blame. Himself. He is gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, Endo Bank is underperforming. The CEO is her escape, Barry goes out on the road torn between his desire to head north and daughter Hedvig and father Walter, he dumped and scheming Guy Curry gets the to find her and teams up with Benny, a start a new life with his best friend Dan and discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s gig. He brings in mysterious HR guru Max fellow survivor - together they must arm the obligation to his broken family. Can he family apart. As he tries to right the wrongs Menkoff. And his “Method”. Good idea, themselves and prepare to battle their way fill the shoes of his adored sibling or is he of the past, his actions threaten to shatter except Menkoff comes with a few issues – through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in toxic and destined to alone. the lives of those he left behind years like two thugs, a KGB background, and an a harsh Australian bushland. before. assassin! PRODUCER Annmaree J Bell SPA PRODUCER Tristan Roache-Turner DIRECTOR Craig Boreham PRODUCER Jan Chapman, Nicole O’Donohue PRODUCER John Kearney, Jan Bladier, DIRECTOR Kiah Roache-Turner WRITER Craig Boreham DIRECTOR Simon Stone David Lee WRITER Kiah Roache-Turner, Tristan EDITOR Adrian Chiarella WRITER Simon Stone DIRECTOR David Parker Roache-Turner SOUND Sasha Zastavnikovic EDITOR Veronika Jenet ASE WRITER Zac Gillam EDITOR Kiah Roache-Turner CINEMATOGRAPHER Bonnie Elliott ACS SOUND Liam Egan, Nick Emond, COMPOSER Paul Grabowsky SOUND Tony Vaccher COMPOSER David Barber Tony Murtagh, James Andrews, LEAD ACTOR Noah Taylor, Lachlan Woods CINEMATOGRAPHER Tim Nagle PRODUCTION DESIGNER Yulia Akerholt, Robert Sullivan LEAD ACTRESS Jessica Clarke COMPOSER Michael Lira Virginia Mesiti APDG CINEMATOGRAPHER Andrew Commis ACS SUPPORTING ACTRESS PRODUCTION DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER Kitty Taube APDG COMPOSER Mark Bradshaw Catherine McClements Tristan Roache-Turner LEAD ACTOR Miles Szanto PRODUCTION DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LEAD ACTRESS Anni Finsterer Steven Jones-Evans APDG Lara Cross, Sam Hennings SUPPORTING ACTOR Daniel Webber COSTUME DESIGNER Margot Wilson APDG LEAD ACTOR Jay Gallagher SUPPORTING ACTRESS Shari Sebbens, LEAD ACTOR Ewen Leslie LEAD ACTRESS Bianca Bradey Charlotte Best LEAD ACTRESS Odessa Young SUPPORTING ACTOR Leon Burchill SUPPORTING ACTOR Geoffrey Rush, SUPPORTING ACTRESS Catherine Terracini Paul Schneider, Sam Neill HAIR AND MAKEUP Lisa Cotterill, SUPPORTING ACTRESS Miranda Otto, Gavin Kyle Anna Torv HAIR AND MAKEUP Chiara Tripodi SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘THE WILD DUCK’ BY SIMON STONE AND CHRIS RYAN SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AFTER HENRIK IBSEN SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CLASSIFICATION TBC CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION TBC CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 99 mins RUNNING TIME 96 mins RUNNING TIME 86 mins RUNNING TIME 98 mins DISTRIBUTOR LEVEL K DISTRIBUTOR ROADSHOW FILMS DISTRIBUTOR MIND BLOWING WORLD DISTRIBUTOR STUDIOCANAL RELEASED JUNE 2016 RELEASED MAY 2016 RELEASED NOVEMBER 2016 RELEASED FEBRUARY 2015

42 FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION 43 PROGRAM - SYDNEY

Proudly Supporting MON 29 AUGUST TUE 30 WED 31 OPENING NIGHT 6.30pm 6.30pm LOOKING FOR GRACE 6.30pm IN THE SHADOW OF FF 100’ THE HILL FLD 98’ *A FEW LESS MEN FF 95’ 8.30pm Australian Cinema… 8.30pm DOWNRIVER FF 99’ BEAST FF 94’

THU 1 SEPTEMBER MON 5 TUE 6

6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm SPEAR FF 84’ WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF RED BILLABONG FF 108’ THE DEAD FF 98’ 8.30pm 8.30pm TANNA FF 104’ 8.30pm BACKTRACK FF 90 SCARE CAMPAIGN FF 80’

WED 7 THU 8 MON 12

6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm REMEMBERING CHASING ASYLUM FLD 96’ SHORT FILM PROGRAM THE MAN FLD 83’ SA SFF 85’ 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30PM EARLY WINTER FF 96’ EMBEDDED FF 82’ SUCKER FF 90’

WED 14 THU 15 MON 19

6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm PAWNO FF 89’ THE MENKOFF METHOD JOE CINQUE’S FF 86’ CONSOLATION FF 102’ 8.30PM 8.30pm BOYS IN THE TREES 8.30pm FF 112’ SNOW MONKEY FLD 150’ SPIRIT OF THE GAME FF 100’

TUE 20 WED 21 THU 22

6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm BROKE FF 98’ SPIN OUT FF 88’ HACKSAW RIDGE FF 130’

8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm eventcinemas.com.au TEENAGE KICKS FF 99’ DOWN UNDER FF 95’ THE DAUGHTER FF 96’

FF FEATURE FILM FLD FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY SA SHORT ANIMATION SFF SHORT FICTION FILM * GUEST PASSES NOT VALID SCREENINGS PROGRAM - SYDNEY 45 AFI ACCTA FULL PAGE:Layout 1 2/07/16 5:30 PM Page 1

PROGRAM - MELBOURNE

TUE 30 AUGUST THU 1 SEPTEMBER SUN 4

OPENING NIGHT 6.30pm 2.30pm 6.30pm REMEMBERING THE JOE CINQUE’S MAN FLD 83’ CONSOLATION FF 102’ *A FEW LESS MEN FF 95’

8.30pm 4.30pm EMBEDDED FF 82’ SPIRIT OF THE GAME FF 100’

TUE 6 WED 7 THU 8

6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm THE MENKOFF METHOD SHORT FILM PROGRAM PAWNO FF 89’ FF 86’ SA SFF 85’ 8.30PM 8.30pm 8.30PM RED BILLABONG FF 108’ SNOW MONKEY FLD 150’ SUCKER FF 90’

SUN 11 TUE 13 WED 14

2.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm CHASING ASYLUM FLD 96’ LOOKING FOR GRACE WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF FF 100’ THE DEAD FF 98’ 4.30pm 8.30pm EARLY WINTER FF 96’ 8.30pm DOWN UNDER FF 95’ SCARE CAMPAIGN FF 80’

THU 15 SUN 18 TUE 20

6.30pm 2.30pm 6.30pm GIRL ASLEEP FF 77’ SPEAR FF 84’ IN THE SHADOW OF THE HILL FLD 98’ 8.30pm 4.30pm BOYS IN THE TREES TANNA FF 104’ 8.30pm FF 112’ BEAST FF 94’

WED 21 THU 22 WED 27

10% off 6.30pm 6.30pm 8.40pm all alcoholic SPIN OUT FF 88’ BACKTRACK FF 90’ THE DAUGHTER FF 96’

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