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WELCOME 05 GENERAL INFORMATION 07 ABOUT AFI 10 ABOUT AACTA 11 HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE 13

PRODUCTION DETAILS SHORT FICTION FILM 15 SHORT ANIMATION 21 visit sydney.com FEATURE FILM 27 for more information on great events, experiences and things to do SCREENINGS PROGRAM

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3 Good luck WELCOME AACTA Award Welcome to this year’s showcase short filmmakers, I hope that this of outstanding contemporary nomination for an AACTA Award contenders! Australian screen productions, each leads to opportunities both in vying for our nation’s highest screen Australia and internationally. accolades – the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. It is now your privilege as AFI and AACTA members to view these This showcase heralds the beginning films – either at screenings in Sydney of the viewing and voting period and Melbourne, or via the online for the 3rd AACTA Awards, and platform, AACTA TV – and to vote to I’m delighted to see such an determine the winners. accomplished slate of short films and feature films competing, with many As we commence the 3rd AACTA having already achieved both critical Awards season I take this opportunity and audience acclaim, here and to thank our sponsors and partners abroad. who make our work in recognising Australian screen excellence possible. The 15 Feature Films in Competition span many genres, including I also thank our industry for their romantic comedy to horror, and big exceptional work which makes the budget dramas to intimate coming AACTA Awards so competitive and of age stories, and I look forward compelling, as well as our members to seeing which of these Australia’s for their invaluable and ongoing leading screen professionals narrow support. Thank you. down to a list of nominees.

The Short Fiction Film and Short Animation nominees have been 5 chosen by a jury of industry Damian Trewhella professionals. As is an established AFI | AACTA CEO trajectory for many Australian Stories that stay with you GENERAL INFORMATION

Welcome to the AACTA Awards Latecomers arriving after the Screenings, which are held for the scheduled start of a screening may purpose of judging the AACTA not be admitted. Awards. PRODUCTION DETAILS SCREENING SCHEDULE The synopses and production details Each film will be screened once in listed in the Judges Handbook Sydney and Melbourne. Please refer have been supplied and approved to the Screening Program at the back by the producer of each entered BRAVO! of the Judges Handbook. production. Every effort will be made to avoid VOTING changes to the screening schedule, Congratulations and best wishes AFI | AACTA members hold the however in the event that changes to all the AACTA Award contenders. exclusive privilege of voting in the must be made, all members will AACTA Awards. You’re all stars. receive direct email communication and changes will also be noted on All votes will be submitted on the the AACTA website (www.aacta.org). AACTA website, via an online voting The Star is proud to play its part as form. Only one voting form per a supporter of the AACTA Awards. ADMISSION REGULATIONS AFI | AACTA member per round will AFI | AACTA members receive be accepted. complimentary entry to all sessions, upon presentation of AFI | AACTA acknowledges that their membership cards at the it may not be possible for voting cinema box office at the time of the members to view all films in STAR.COM.AU screening. competition. Therefore, individual member votes shall be weighted to Please note that tickets cannot be reflect the percentage of films each obtained in advance of screenings. member has seen.

All seating is offered on a first come, Further information on voting is first serve basis, and is strictly limited available on page 13 of the Judges by the capacity of each cinema. The Handbook. AFI | AACTA cannot guarantee entry to popular sessions. Ernst & Young is the scrutineer for the AACTA Awards. Persons under the age of 18 are restricted to sessions based on the classifications listed for each 7 80 PYRMONT STREET, SYDNEY 1800 700 700 film. Films without classification are restricted to persons aged 18 and over – proof of age may be required.

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AACTA TV The Short Fiction Film and Short Animation nominees, and a selection of Feature Films in Competition will be showcased for all AFI | AACTA members on AACTA TV during the AACTA Awards Screenings period.

To access AACTA TV, please visit www.aacta.org/aacta-tv.

NOMINEES AND WINNERS Nominees will be announced at the AACTA Awards Nominations Announcement later in 2013. Winners in all categories will be announced and presented at the AACTA Awards in January 2014.

INFORMATION For more information regarding AFI |AACTA Membership or the AACTA Awards Screenings, please contact AFI | AACTA:

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9 ABOUT AFI ABOUT AACTA

The Australian Film Institute (AFI) The Australian Academy of Cinema MEMBERSHIP was created in 1958 by those with a and Television Arts (AACTA) was “AACTA membership denotes pride passion for film. launched by the Australian Film and passion for Australia’s screen Institute (AFI) in August 2011, with the industry. It shows dedication to Today, alongside the Australian primary role of identifying, awarding, furthering screen craft excellence, Academy of Cinema and Television promoting and celebrating Australia’s particularly by voting in the AACTA Arts (AACTA), which is the AFI’s greatest achievements in film and Awards, and shows a desire to professional membership body, the television. connect the industry across all crafts, AFI continues to support, encourage as represented by the Academy.” and promote Australian screen Australia has produced some of Geoffrey Rush, AACTA President culture. the best screen practitioners and productions in the world, and an Members help shape the Australian CALLING ALL SCREEN AACTA TV important part of AACTA’s role is to screen industry, particularly by the AACTA TV is yet another way we recognise this through the annual privilege of judging and voting in ENTHUSIASTS AACTA Awards – Australia’s highest the peer-assessed AACTA Awards, AFI membership is open to promote and share access to screen accolades. ensuring that those best qualified to everyone – those with a passion for premium Australian screen content. recognise excellence do so. film and television, those studying it Members are offered exclusive and those emerging in the industry. access to this online screening CONNECTING THE platform, providing an opportunity AACTA also facilitates professional INDUSTRY development for members, including One of the most important benefits to watch the year’s nominated Short AACTA is a not-for-profit, member by partnering with Guilds to provide AFI members receive is the right Fiction Films and Short Animations, organisation. AACTA membership screen craft forums, and also provides to vote in the AACTA Awards. AFI and gain access to other quality is granted exclusively to film and networking opportunities at events members vote for the winner of the curated content. television professionals, each from a throughout the year. Best Short Fiction Film and Best Short cross-section of the screen industry Animation in the 3rd AACTA Awards. We thank our screen-loving members including production across all Other benefits include complimentary for their ongoing support and screen crafts, distribution, exhibition screenings and special member rates Other member benefits include enthusiasm for Australian screen and television networks. at national cinemas, film festivals and film giveaways and updates via culture. for industry magazine subscriptions. Facebook and Twitter, and cinema, The Australian Academy is overseen film festival and screen magazine JOIN US by AACTA President Geoffrey discounts. Join us in our quest to celebrate Rush and an Honorary Council BECOME A MEMBER Australian screen excellence. - a selection of Australia’s most To apply for AACTA membership and By supporting AFI | AACTA through outstanding and highly skilled for more information: membership, you are helping to E [email protected] screen craft specialists, each chosen recognise Australia’s best and T 1300 139 697 because of their contribution to the E [email protected] brightest screen talent, creating new W www.aacta.org industry, and each representing T 1300 139 697 opportunities for our industry. AACTA’s 15 screen craft chapters, W www.aacta.org from cinematography and costume 10 design, to screenwriting and 11 directing. HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE

AACTA MEMBERS AFI MEMBERS In line with best-practice international Membership of the Australian Film models, the 3rd AACTA Awards will Institute (AFI) is open to all screen again employ a two-step voting enthusiasts. AFI members are model for Feature Film voting. provided the opportunity to 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 3rd AACTA Awards. have undergone an accreditation process to become an AACTA For more information on voting in the member. 3rd AACTA Awards, 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 collaborate specific to that chapter. create In round two, all members of AACTA can vote on this shortlist of nominees connect to determine the winner. This two-step model allows for celebrate 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 vote.

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

All AACTA members vote to determine the winner in these categories. 13 This year, a jury has determined the nominees and winner for the Best bydeluxe.com Feature Length Documentary Award. It’s your program Curate your own film festival on DVD, Blu-Ray & Digital festivalathome.com THE LAST TIME I SAW RICHARD PERCEPTION RECORD TAU SERU (SMALL YELLOW FIELD)

AFI / AACTA Award Winners & Nominees SHORT FICTION FILM Producer Producer The Last Time I John Molloy Perception Lyn Norfor Director Director Saw Richard Perception is the story of Nicholas Verso Miranda Nation Crystal - mother, daughter, lover, It’s 1995. Jonah is proud to be the stripper, survivor. Confronting death, loner at a teenage mental health Crystal grasps at life and finally faces clinic, taking pleasure in making herself without deception. the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills. As they test each other’s defences, the boys form a connection, based on mutual respect and some common demons. Jonah finds himself wanting to protect his new friend from the demons that plague him but learns the tragic lesson that not everybody wants to be saved and some demons can’t be defeated.

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RUNNING TIME 22’ RUNNING TIME 15’ Producer Producer Record Dave Szamet Tau Seru (Small Rodd Rathjen Director Director A father in mourning struggles to Yellow Field) David Lyons Rodd Rathjen connect with his blind daughter. In the vastness of the Himalayas, a Through her collection of recordings young nomad’s curiosity lies beyond he discovers that the colour of the horizon. memory is more vivid through the eyes of the blind.

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THE NFSA, PROUD SUPPORTER OF THE 3RD AACTA AWARDS. A CAUTIONARY TAIL BUTTERFLIES THE DUKES OF BRÖXSTÔNIA - MOJO WOODY nfsa.gov.au SHORT ANIMATION Producer Producer A Cautionary Tail Pauline Piper Butterflies Warwick Burton Director Director A little girl is born with a tail that A young artist sits on the sidewalk, Simon Rippingale Isabel Peppard expresses her emotions. As a child, struggling to make a living. She her tail inspires magical make-believe sells drawings to passersby. A adventures with her friends but when businessman recognises her talents she grows up, the young woman must and offers her a paying job. The choose between conformity and self prospect seems inviting but the reality expression. threatens to kill her imagination.

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RUNNING TIME 14’ RUNNING TIME 12’ Producer Producer The Dukes of Stu Connolly Woody Jodi Matterson Director Director Bröxstônia - Mojo Ever since he was a child, Woody Stu Connolly Stuart Bowen has dreamt of playing piano. The Bow down to rock! The Dukes are problem is that he only has wooden the hottest band to come out paddles for hands. Stuck in a job he of Bröxstônia. Ever. The band is doesn’t want, Woody spends his days composed of teenagers - singer dreaming of being a concert pianist. Arj, drummer Barj and guitarist Larj. His dreams are big... but they’re about And thanks to the generosity of the to get out of hand. Bröxstônian government, the Dukes are always on tour, spreading their uniquely punk thrash sounds to an unsuspecting world! Larj forgets how to play and is replaced in the band by a studio session guitar hero monkey. Larj must commune with the guitar gods and pass a series of ridiculous challenges to get back his mojo.

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Great practitioners, 100 BLOODY ACRES ADORATION Great BLINDER productions DEAD EUROPE DRIFT GODDESS Make it in THE GREAT GATSBY MYSTERY ROAD Melbourne, PATRICK RETURN TO NIM’S ISLAND Victoria THE ROCKET SATELLITE BOY SAVE YOUR LEGS! www.film.vic.gov.au twitter.com/filmvictoria THE TURNING FEATURE FILM Producer Producer 100 Bloody Acres Julie Ryan, Kate Croser Adoration Andrew Mason, Director Philippe Carcassonne They’re not psycho killers... they’re just Nobel Prize for Literature winner Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes Director small business operators! Doris Lessing’s beautiful and heart- Writer Anne Fontaine wrenching story of two lifelong Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes Writer friends who fall in love with each Cinematographer Christopher Hampton other’s teenage sons. Adoration is an John Brawley Cinematographer erotic tale of misguided love and a Editor Christophe Beaucarne AFC SBC celebration of the enduring nature of Dale Dunne, Joshua Waddell Editor female friendship. Sound Luc Barnier, Ceinwen Berry Emma Bortignon, Craig Carter, Sound Des Keneally, Pete Smith, Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Simon Walbrook, John Simpson Peter Miller, Jean-Pierre Laforce Composer Composer Glenn Richards Christopher Gordon Production Designer Production Designer Tony Cronin Annie Beauchamp Costume Designer Costume Designer Chloe Spalding Joanna Mae Park Lead Actor Lead Actor Damon Herriman Reg Morgan Ian Lead Actress James Frecheville Tom Anna McGahan Sophie Lead Actress Supporting Actor Naomi Watts Lil Angus Sampson Lindsay Morgan Robin Wright Roz Supporting Actor Ben Mendelsohn Harold Gary Sweet Saul Supporting Actress SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘THE Jessica Tovey Mary SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 28 GRANDMOTHERS’ BY DORIS LESSING Sophie Lowe Hannah 29 CLASSIFICATION MA 15+ CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 90’ RUNNING TIME 101’ DISTRIBUTOR HOPSCOTCH FILMS DISTRIBUTOR HOPSCOTCH FILMS RELEASED AUGUST 2013 RELEASED NOVEMBER 2013 Producer Producer Blinder Scott Didier, Richard Gray, Dead Europe Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Virginia Kay Liz Watts There’s nothing more tightly-knit Following the death of his father, Director Director than a small town footy club. So Isaac takes the ashes back to Richard Gray Tony Krawitz when a scandal blows apart the his father’s birthplace in Greece Writer Writer Torquay Tigers, lives are thrown into where he finds himself on the trail Scott Didier, Michele Gray, Louise Fox chaos. After ten years away, one-time of a buried family secret that draws Richard Gray Cinematographer Torquay legend Tom Dunn returns to him deeper into the underbelly of Cinematographer Germain McMicking face his demons and pull the club contemporary Europe and threatens Greg De Marigny Editor back together. To reunite their team to tear his family apart. Sound Alexandre de Franceschi ASE, and rebuild their lives Tom and his Paul ‘Clackers’ Clark Scott Gray ASE mates will have to dig deep, face Composer Sound up to past mistakes and rekindle Alies Sluiter Sam Petty, Paul Finlay, their love of football. After everything Production Designer Yulia Akerholt, Brooke Trezise, is done and dusted, it’s not about Emma Fletcher Leah Katz, Robert Mackenzie giving your best, it’s about doing your Costume Designer Composer best. Justine Seymour Jed Kurzel Lead Actor Production Designer Oliver Ackland Tom Dunn Fiona Crombie Lead Actress Costume Designer Rose McIver Sammy Walton Emily Seresin Supporting Actor Lead Actor Jack Thompson Isaac Charlie “Chang” Hyde Supporting Actor Josh Helman Marton Csokas Nico James “Morts” Mortimer Kodi Smit-McPhee Josef Angus Sampson Franky Tanner Supporting Actress Supporting Actress Eugenia Fargos Reveka Anna Hutchison Rose Walton Danae Skiadi Giulia SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘DEAD EUROPE’ BY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 30 CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS 31 CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION MA 15+ RUNNING TIME 109’ RUNNING TIME 84’ DISTRIBUTOR THE BACKLOT STUDIOS DISTRIBUTOR TRANSMISSION FILMS RELEASED MARCH 2013 RELEASED NOVEMBER 2012 Producer Drift Tim Duffy, Michele Bennett, Myles Pollard In the 70s two brothers battle killer Director waves, conservative society and Morgan O’Neill, Ben Nott ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern Writer surf industry. Morgan O’Neill, Tim Duffy Cinematographer Geoffrey Hall ACS, Rick Rifici, Rick Jakovich Editor Marcus D’Arcy Sound Robert Mackenzie, Andrew Kotatko, Glenn Dillon, Andrew Wright Composer Michael Yezerski Production Designer Clayton Jauncey Costume Designer Mariot Kerr Lead Actor Myles Pollard Andy Kelly Supporting Actor Xavier Samuel Jimmy Kelly Sam Worthington J.B. Steve Bastoni Miller Aaron Glenane Gus Supporting Actress Lesley-Ann Brandt Lani OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE AACTA AWARDS SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Kat 33 www.sanpellegrino.com.au CLASSIFICATION M RUNNING TIME 113’ DISTRIBUTOR HOPSCOTCH FILMS RELEASED MAY 2013

SP463 AACTA awards AdvertLIT.indd 1 6/09/13 3:18 PM Producer Producer Goddess Richard Keddie, Andrena Finlay THE GREAT GATSBY Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Director Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Catherine Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding It’s the spring of 1922 in New York City, Mark Lamprell Knapman her “voice” despite being stuck in a decadent playground of shifting Writer Director an isolated farmhouse with her twin morals, glittering jazz, bootleg empires Mark Lamprell, Joanna Weinberg Baz Luhrmann boys. A webcam she installs in her and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing Cinematographer Writer kitchen becomes her pathway to the American Dream, would-be Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce Damian E. Wyvill ACS fame and fortune, making her a writer Nick Carraway arrives from the Cinematographer Editor cyber-sensation. While her husband Midwest only to land next door to Simon Duggan ACS Mark Warner James is off saving the world’s whales, Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire Editor Sound Elspeth is offered the chance of a whose estate overflows with endless Matt Villa ASE, Jason Ballantine ASE, John Dennison, Tony Vaccher, lifetime. But when forced to choose parties. As Nick’s beautiful cousin Jonathan Redmond David Lee between fame and family, the newly- Daisy and her blue-blooded husband Sound Composer anointed internet goddess almost Tom Buchanan fall into Gatsby’s orbit, Wayne Pashley MPSE, Judy Morris, Joanna Weinberg, loses it all. Nick bears witness to a tragedy of Jenny Ward MPSE, Fabian Sanjurjo, Bryony Marks impossible love and incorruptible Steve Maslow, Phil Heywood, Production Designer dreams. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Annie Beauchamp timeless epic, THE GREAT GATSBY Composer Costume Designer Craig Armstrong mirrors the struggles of modern times. Shareen Beringer Production Designer Lead Actress Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Ian Laura Michelle Kelly Gracie, Beverley Dunn Elspeth Dickens Costume Designer Supporting Actor Catherine Martin, Ronan Keating Silvana Azzi Heras, Kerry Thompson James Dickens Lead Actor Supporting Actress Leonardo DiCaprio Jay Gatsby Magda Szubanski Lead Actress Carey Mulligan Daisy Buchanan Cassandra Wolfe Supporting Actor Tobey Maguire Nick Carraway SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘ONE WOMAN SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘THE GREAT Joel Edgerton Tom Buchanan 34 35 STAGE SHOW’ BY JOANNA WEINBERG GATSBY’ BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Jason Clarke George Wilson CLASSIFICATION PG CLASSIFICATION M Supporting Actress RUNNING TIME 90’ RUNNING TIME 142’ DISTRIBUTOR ROADSHOW FILMS DISTRIBUTOR ROADSHOW FILMS Elizabeth Debicki Jordan Baker RELEASED MARCH 2013 RELEASED MAY 2013 Isla Fisher Myrtle Wilson Producer Producer Mystery Road David Jowsey PATRICK Antony I. Ginnane Director Director Detective Jay Swan returns to his After killing his mother and her lover Ivan Sen Mark Hartley outback home town to investigate some years before, Patrick is the Writer Writer the murder of a teenage girl found comatose patient in room 15 of a Ivan Sen Justin King in a drain under the highway out of remote, private psychiatric clinic run Cinematographer Cinematographer town. by the secretive Dr Roget, who treats Ivan Sen Garry Richards him as a guinea pig in his bizarre Editor Editor studies of life and death. When Kathy, Ivan Sen Jane Moran a nurse who has recently separated Sound Sound from her boyfriend, begins working Lawrence Horne, Nick Emond, Robert Mackenzie at the clinic, she is instructed to Joe Huang, Phil Judd, Les Fiddess, Composer take care of him. She is disturbed Greg Fitzgerald Pino Donaggio by Roget’s treatment of him and Composer Production Designer somehow feels that Patrick is trying to Ivan Sen Robbie Perkins make a connection with her. Production Designer Costume Designer Matt Putland Aphrodite Kondos Costume Designer Lead Actress Vanessa Loh Sharni Vinson Kathy Jacquard Lead Actor Supporting Actor Aaron Pedersen Charles Dance Dr Roget Detective Jay Swan Supporting Actress Lead Actress Matron Cassidy Mary Supporting Actor Johnno Ryan Kwanten Pete Bailey Tony Barry Sergeant Damian Walshe-Howling Wayne SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘PATRICK’ BY SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 36 EVERETT DE ROCHE 37 CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION MA 15+ RUNNING TIME 117’ RUNNING TIME 96’ DISTRIBUTOR THE BACKLOT STUDIOS DISTRIBUTOR UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT RELEASED OCTOBER 2013 RELEASED OCTOBER 2013 www.tresscox.com.au

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Producer direction in Return to Nim’s Paula Mazur, Chris Brown, Island Tom Hoffie Director entertainment law Return to Nim’s Island, picks up the Brendan Maher story a few years later with fourteen Writer year old Nim more determined than Wendy Orr, Cathy Randall, FILM ever to protect her island and all the Sarah Carbiener, Erica Rosbe wildlife that call it home. When she Cinematographer faces off against resort developers Judd Overton and animal poachers, she realizes Editor she can’t depend on her animal Geoffrey Lamb DIGITAL cohorts alone and must make her first Sound human friend - Edmund, who’s run Greg Burgmann, Vic Kaspar away to the island from the Composer mainland - to save her home. Nerida Tyson-Chew Production Designer Scott Bird Costume Designer Jean Marashlian GAMING Lead Actor Toby Wallace Edmund TELEVISION Matthew Lillard Jack Lead Actress Bindi Irwin Nim Supporting Actor John Waters Booker Nathan Derrick Felix Sebastian Gregory Frankie Jack Pearson Ben SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘NIM’S AT SEA’ BY WENDY ORR 39 CLASSIFICATION G THEATRE SYDNEY | MELBOURNE | BRISBANE | CANBERRA RUNNING TIME 90’ DISTRIBUTOR PINNACLE FILMS RELEASED APRIL 2013 Producer Producer The Rocket Sylvia Wilczynski Satellite Boy David Jowsey, Julie Ryan, Director Catriona McKenzie A boy who is believed to bring bad Pete is ten and lives in the outback Kim Mordaunt Director luck leads his family and a couple of with his Grandfather in an old Writer Catriona McKenzie ragged misfits through Laos to find abandoned outdoor cinema. When Kim Mordaunt Writer a new home. After a calamity filled his home is threatened by developers, Cinematographer Catriona McKenzie journey through a land scarred by Pete travels to the city with his best Andrew Commis ACS Cinematographer war, to try and prove he’s not cursed friend Kalmain to try and save his Editor Geoffrey Simpson ACS he builds a giant rocket to enter home... Nick Meyers ASE Editor the most lucrative but dangerous Sound Henry Dangar ASE competition of the year: the Rocket Sam Petty, Brooke Trezise, Sound Festival. Nick Emond, Sam Hayward, Phil Judd, Liam Egan, Nick Emond, Yulia Akerholt Glenn Butler, Les Fiddess, Composer Jennifer Sochackyj Caitlin Yeo Composer Production Designer Pete Baxter Production Designer Costume Designer Sam Hobbs Woranun Pueakpun, Costume Designer Sylvia Wilczynski Maria Pattison Lead Actor Lead Actor Sitthiphon Disamoe Ahlo Cameron Wallaby Pete Lead Actress Supporting Actor Bunsri Yindi Taitok David Gulpilil Jagamarra Loungnam Kaosainam Kia Supporting Actor Thep Phongam Purple Sumrit Warin Toma Supporting Actress Alice Keohavong Mali SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 40 SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 41 CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION PG RUNNING TIME 96’ RUNNING TIME 90’ DISTRIBUTOR CURIOUS FILMS DISTRIBUTOR HOPSCOTCH FILMS RELEASED AUGUST 2013 RELEASED MAY 2013 Producer Producer Save Your Legs! Robyn Kershaw, Nick Batzias The Turning Robert Connolly, Maggie Miles, Director The Turning Ensemble Save Your Legs! is an inspirational The Turning is a unique cinema Boyd Hicklin Director journey from the heart of Australia event. Seventeen talented Australian The Turning Ensemble Writer to the soul of India. It’s the story of directors from diverse artistic Writer Brendan Cowell one man who refuses to lose his disciplines each create a chapter The Turning Ensemble Cinematographer park cricket team to the realities of of the hauntingly beautiful novel Cinematographer Mark Wareham ACS growing up. An uplifting adventure by multi award-winning author Tim The Turning Ensemble Editor Editor filled with comedy, cricket and Winton. The linking and overlapping Leanne Cole The Turning Ensemble Bollywood music, Save Your Legs! is stories explore the extraordinary Sound Sound an odyssey from the suburbs to the turning points in ordinary people’s Robert Mackenzie, The Turning Ensemble sub-continent in pursuit of a lifelong lives in a stunning portrait of a small Angus Robertson Composer dream. coastal community. As characters The Turning Ensemble Composer face second thoughts and regret, Production Designer Cornel Thomas Wilczek relationships irretrievably alter, The Turning Ensemble Production Designer resolves are made or broken, and Costume Designer Paddy Reardon lives change direction forever. This The Turning Ensemble Costume Designer Lead Actor watershed film reinterprets and Terry Ryan Hugo Weaving Bob Lang re-imagines the work for the screen. Lead Actor Callan Mulvey David Wilson Stephen Curry Ted Brown Dan Wyllie Vic Lang Supporting Actor Oscar Redding Peter Dyson Lead Actress Brendan Cowell Rick Rae Damon Gameau Stav Gail Lang Supporting Actress Carol Lang Pallavi Sharda Anjali Brenna Harding Agnes Larwood Supporting Actor Matt Nable Max Vic Lang Matthew Shanley Vic Lang Joseph Pedley Vic Lang SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ‘THE TURNING’ BY Supporting Actress 42 43 SCREENPLAY ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY TIM WINTON Miranda Otto Sherry CLASSIFICATION M CLASSIFICATION MA 15+ Fay Keenan RUNNING TIME 92’ RUNNING TIME 180’ DISTRIBUTOR MADMAN DISTRIBUTOR MADMAN Taylor Ferguson Strawberry Alison RELEASED FEBRUARY 2013 RELEASED SEPTEMBER 2013 Kimberley Rossi Girl SYDNEY EVENT CINEMAS BONDI JUNCTION

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SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER MONDAY 21 OCTOBER 12.30pm Goddess (FF, 90’) 6.30pm 100 Bloody Acres (FF, 90’) 2.30pm Blinder (FF, 109’) WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER 6.30pm Shorts Program 2.30pm The Rocket (FF, 96’) (SA/SF, 99’) 8.30pm Dead Europe (FF, 84’) MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 6.30pm The Turning* (FF, 180’) SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 2.30pm Satellite Boy (FF, 90’) WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 6.30pm Mystery Road (FF, 117’) MONDAY 28 OCTOBER 8.45pm Drift (FF, 113’) 6.30pm Adoration (FF, 101’)

SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER 12.30pm Return To Nim’s Island 6:30pm PATRICK (FF, 96’) (FF, 90’) 2.30pm Save Your Legs! (FF, 92’)

SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 2.30pm THE GREAT GATSBY (FF, 142’)

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WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER 6.30pm The Turning* (FF, 180’) 2.30pm The Rocket (FF, 96’)

SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER MONDAY 21 OCTOBER 2.30pm 100 Bloody Acres (FF, 90’) 6.30pm PATRICK (FF, 96’)

SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2.30pm Return To Nim’s Island 6.30pm Save Your Legs! (FF, 92’) (FF 90’) 8.30pm Adoration (FF, 101’)

MONDAY 14 OCTOBER MONDAY 28 OCTOBER 6.30pm THE GREAT GATSBY 6.30pm Blinder (FF, 109’) (FF, 142’) WEDNESDAY 30 OCTOBER THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 6.30pm Mystery Road (FF, 117’) 6.30pm Shorts Program 8.45pm Drift (FF, 113’) (SA/SF, 99’) 8.30pm Satellite Boy (FF, 90’)

SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 12.30pm Goddess (FF, 90’) 2.30pm Dead Europe (FF, 84’)

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FF = FEATURE FILM, SF = SHORT FICTION FILM, SA = SHORT ANIMATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

AACTA President Geoffrey Rush Thanks to the generous support of our partners and sponsors. AFI | AACTA Patron Dr George Miller AFI | AACTA Ambassador Cate Blanchett

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