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Filmfest-Judgeshandbook.Pdf ACUTE MISFORTUNE AACTA AWARD FOR BEST INDIE FILM PRESENTED BY EVENT CINEMAS Thomas M Wright, Virginia Kay, Jamie Houge, The film adaptation of Erik Jensen's Liz Kearney biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship. SCREENPLAY ADAPTED CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 109 mins DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 1 BOOK WEEK AACTA AWARD FOR BEST INDIE FILM PRESENTED BY EVENT CINEMAS Heath Davis, Joanne Weatherstone BOOK WEEK is a shaggy, dark comedy about a disgraced novelist turned English teacher trying to find redemption. SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 96 mins DISTRIBUTOR BONSAI FILMS RELEASE MONTH NOVEMBER 2018 AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 2 BUOYANCY AACTA AWARD FOR BEST INDIE FILM PRESENTED BY EVENT CINEMAS Rodd Rathjen, Samantha Jennings, A 14-year-old Cambodian boy secretly Kristina Ceyton, Rita Walsh leaves home in search of a better life, but is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he decides his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors. SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 92 mins DISTRIBUTOR UMBRELLA RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 3 DANGER CLOSE: AACTA AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Ben Nott THE BATTLE OF AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SOUND LONG TAN Liam Egan AACTA AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Caitlin Yeo South Vietnam, late afternoon on August 18, 1966 - for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, a dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of over 2,000 battle-hardened North Vietnamese soldiers. SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 118 mins DISTRIBUTOR TRANSMISSION RELEASE MONTH AUGUST AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 4 EMU RUNNER AACTA AWARD FOR BEST INDIE FILM PRESENTED BY EVENT CINEMAS Imogen Thomas, Victor Evatt, Antonia Barnard, EMU RUNNER is about the impact a John Fink mother's death has on an Indigenous family living in an isolated Australian community. The story is seen through the eyes of Gem, a spirited nine-year-old girl, who deals with grief by forging a bond with a wild emu, a mythical bird of her ancestors. It is a bond she will do anything to keep but one that puts her at odds with a young and inexperienced social worker. SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION PG RUNNING TIME 95 mins DISTRIBUTOR UMBRELLA RELEASE MONTH NOVEMBER AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 5 HEARTS AND BONES AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR Hugo Weaving AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR A war photographer has just returned Andrew Luri home to prepare for his latest exhibition when a South Sudanese refugee appears AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS at his door with a request - that he not Bolude Watson exhibit any photographs of the massacre in his village, taken 15 years earlier. What emerges is an unlikely friendship between the two men. While sifting through the photographer's archive, they make a startling discovery: the refugee's daughter, thought dead, may still be alive. As more revelations arise, both men begin to question their past and in their search, they discover salvation. SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION CTC RUNNING TIME 110 mins DISTRIBUTOR MADMAN RELEASE MONTH NOVEMBER AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 6 HOTEL MUMBAI AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FILM PRESENTED BY FOXTEL Basil Iwanyk, Gary Hamilton, Julie Ryan, HOTEL MUMBAI is based on the true Jomon Thomas story of the devastating terrorist attack AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 2008. Anthony Maras The terrifying assault brings together the guests and staff of the luxurious hotel AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR including wealthy new parents David and Dev Patel Zahra, Russian businessman Vasili, newly AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS promoted waiter Arjun and the Head Chef Nazanin Boniadi in a desperate fight for survival. This story celebrates humanity, compassion, courage, AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Tilda Cobham-Hervey resilience and the unwavering desire to survive. AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY John Collee, Anthony Maras AACTA AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Nick Remy Matthews AACTA AWARD FOR BEST EDITING Peter McNulty, Anthony Maras AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SOUND Sam Petty, Pete Smith, Nakul Kamte, James Currie, Peter Ristic AACTA AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL AACTA AWARD FOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN CLASSIFICATION MA15+ Steven Jones-Evans RUNNING TIME 123 mins AACTA AWARD FOR BEST COSTUME DESIGN DISTRIBUTOR ICON Anna Borghesi RELEASE MONTH MARCH AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 7 I AM MOTHER AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Hilary Swank I AM MOTHER is a sci-fi thriller about a teenage girl, who is the first of a new generation of humans to be raised by Mother, a robot designed to repopulate the earth after the extinction of humankind. But the pair's unique relationship is threatened when an injured stranger arrives with news that calls into question everything Daughter has been told about the outside world. SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 114 mins DISTRIBUTOR NETFLIX RELEASE MONTH JUNE AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 8 JUDY & PUNCH AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FILM PRESENTED BY FOXTEL Michele Bennett, Nash Edgerton, Danny Gabai In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch Mirrah Foulkes are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR superior puppeteering, but Punch's driving Damon Herriman ambition and penchant for whisky lead AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must Mia Wasikowska avenge. In a visceral and dynamic live- action reinterpretation of the famous AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY Mirrah Foulkes 16th century puppet show, writer/director Mirrah Foulkes turns the traditional story of AACTA AWARD FOR BEST EDITING Punch and Judy on its head and brings to Dany Cooper life a fierce, darkly comic and epic AACTA AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE female-driven revenge story. François Tétaz AACTA AWARD FOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Jo Ford AACTA AWARD FOR BEST COSTUME DESIGN Edie Kurzer SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION Unclassified 15+ RUNNING TIME 106 mins DISTRIBUTOR MADMAN RELEASE MONTH OCTOBER AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 9 THE KING AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FILM PRESENTED BY FOXTEL Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Liz Watts, Hal, wayward prince and reluctant heir to David Michôd, Joel Edgerton the English throne, has turned his back on AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION royal life and is living among the people. David Michôd But when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR to embrace the life he had previously Timothée Chalamet tried to escape. Now the young king AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR must navigate the palace politics, chaos Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn and war his father left behind, and the AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY emotional strings of his past life—including David Michôd, Joel Edgerton his relationship with his closest friend and mentor, the ageing alcoholic knight, AACTA AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Adam Arkapaw John Falstaff. AACTA AWARD FOR BEST EDITING Peter Sciberras AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SOUND Robert Mackenzie, Sam Petty, Gareth John, Leah Katz, Mario Vacarro, Tara Webb AACTA AWARD FOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton AACTA AWARD FOR BEST COSTUME DESIGN Jane Petrie SCREENPLAY ADAPTED CLASSIFICATION MA15+ RUNNING TIME 133 mins DISTRIBUTOR NETFLIX RELEASE MONTH OCTOBER AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 10 THE NIGHTINGALE AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FILM PRESENTED BY FOXTEL Kristina Ceyton, Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict Jennifer Kent woman, chases a British officer through AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on Jennifer Kent revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way, AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR she enlists the services of an Aboriginal Baykali Ganambarr tracker named Billy, who is also marked by AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS trauma from his own violence filled past. Aisling Franciosi AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Damon Herriman, Michael Sheasby AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Magnolia Maymuru AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY Jennifer Kent AACTA AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Radek Ladczuk AACTA AWARD FOR BEST EDITING Simon Njoo AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SOUND Robert Mackenzie, Dean Ryan, Leah Katz, Pete Smith AACTA AWARD FOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL Alex Holmes CLASSIFICATION MA15+ AACTA AWARD FOR BEST COSTUME DESIGN 136 mins RUNNING TIME Margot Wilson DISTRIBUTOR TRANSMISSION RELEASE MONTH AUGUST AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 11 RIDE LIKE A GIRL AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FILM PRESENTED BY FOXTEL Richard Keddie, Rachel Griffiths, Susie Montague The incredible true story of Michelle Payne - AACTA AWARD FOR BEST LEAD ACTRESS the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup. Teresa Palmer AACTA AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE David Hirschfelder SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION PG RUNNING TIME 98 mins DISTRIBUTOR TRANSMISSION FILMS RELEASE MONTH SEPTEMBER AACTA AWARDS | FILM FEST 12 SEQUIN IN A AACTA AWARD FOR BEST INDIE FILM PRESENTED BY EVENT CINEMAS BLUE ROOM Samuel Van Grinsven, Sophie Hattch, Linus Gibson After a chance encounter at an anonymous sex party, a sixteen-year-old boy hunts through the world of a hook-up app to track down the mystery man. Favouring the instant gratification of anonymous, no-strings sexual encounters over meaningful relationships, high schooler Sequin is part of the always logged-on, but never engaged, hook-up generation.
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