Australia’s CinefestOZ has announced that the finalists for its lucrative annual movie prize are Gracie Otto’s Critically Red, Matt Nable’s Transfusion, Jub Clerc’s Candy As and Goran Stolevski’s Of An Age.
The winner of the $68,000 (AU$100,000) prize can be revealed at the 15th version of the festival, which is location to bustle from August 23-28 within the Margaret River put of Western Australia. It is the nation’s totally movie festival dedicated totally to Australian cinema.
Transfusion marks the feature directorial debut of actor, screenwriter and novelist Matt Nable and stars Sam Worthington as a venerable Particular Forces operative thrust into the prison underworld to merit his totally son from being taken from him. The feature is a Stan Normal title and can debut on the streaming provider this one year after a theatrical release thru Madman in Australia and Fresh Zealand. Altitude handles world gross sales.
Of An Age depicts a romance between two younger men in Melbourne location over the course of one sweltering summer’s day in 1999. It marks Stolevski’s 2nd feature and is thanks to begin the Melbourne Global Film Festival on August 4. Universal-owned Focal level Capabilities secured all world rights from Bankside Motion photos moreover Australia and Fresh Zealand, which is being handled by Causeway Motion photos and Bonsai Motion photos.
The totally Western Australian movie within the selection is Clerc’s personally inspired coming-of-age road movie Candy As, written with Steve Rodgers. The chronicle of a younger indigenous lady is being dispensed within the community by Cinemaplus, the theatrical distribution and rights administration company of production company Arenamedia. No gross sales agent is yet hooked up.
The contenders are rounded out by Otto’s comedy Critically Red, which stars screenwriter Krew Boylan as a Dolly Parton impersonator. The solid furthermore entails Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne. It received its world premiere at SXSW in March and is being released in Australia by Roadshow. Arclight handles world gross sales.
The movie prize had lengthy been the supreme in Australia since its launch in 2014. Nonetheless, Melbourne Global Film Festival launched a prize of AU$140,000 ($95,000) this one year that is begin to aspects from wherever on the earth.
CinefestOZ is location to feature 270 movie screenings and events this one year at round 35 venues in Busselton, Margaret River and Bunbury.
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