Sentences with phrase «australian film history»

Australian film history has always been intriguing, but lately it's been those in front of the camera who've stolen the spotlight.

Not exact matches

Not too many South Australians wanted a taxpayer - funded film made about the most appalling serial killing spree in the nation's history.

But perhaps it was the six award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short Film.

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

«The Wolf of Wall Street» has smashed box office records to become the highest grossing R18 + film in Australian history after just two weeks.»

When Australian cinematographer John Seale got word of the Sisyphean development of Mad Max: Fury Road in its early stages, he was just glad that it wasn't his cross to bear, not realizing that he would soon find himself working on one of the most infamously challenging productions in recent film history.

Filmed in New South Wales and using primarily Australian actors, «Hacksaw Ridge» is nonetheless a quintessentially American war movie that honors the spirit and values of the U.S. military during one of the most destructive wars in history.

Here, in a conversation with AITSL (the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership), he discusses how linking the film and novel Rabbit Proof Fence through movie reviews and film editing has helped his students gain a clearer understanding of 1930s law and the history of the Stolen Generation.

Emerging from a tradition that originates in China's Tang period (618 — 907), the phrase «one hand clapping» encompasses a history of cross-cultural translation and appropriation that continues into the present, from its citation as the epigraph to J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories (1953) to its referencing in the titles of a Cantopop song and an Australian film and the name of a British band.

Megan was a founding director of Project 10 %, an Aboriginal - led company campaigning for policy reform and integration, and she has collaborated in multi-disciplinary groups to produce community resources such as case studies, life histories and a well - travelled group discussion guide to accompany the Australian feature film, Mad Bastards.

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