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2019 AACTA AWARDS PRESENTED BY FOXTEL FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION Foxtel and Netflix now all in one place 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 Cappelli 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, HAIR AND MAKEUP Holly Anderson Yvonne Strahovski CASTING DIRECTOR Jane Norris 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 Allison 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 Johnston 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