Four Australian films to tempt festival directors in 2023
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- 17 Mar 2023
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Australian films have hit the ground running in 2023 with four films selected for this month’s Sundance Film Festival.
Two are among the most anticipated debuts of the year. Both are world premieres by female directors: Noora Niasari’s first feature Shayda opens the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Produced by Cate Blanchett, the drama is set in the Iranian-Australian community in the 1990s and tells the story of a mother and daughter fleeing domestic violence.
Run Rabbit Run is fromo acclaimed TV director Daina Reid, whose credits include The Handmaid’s Tale. Sarah Snook plays a fertility doctor whose young daughter begins to exhibit increasingly strange behaviour in this pyschological thriller.
Also playing Sundance is the international premiere of Talk To Me, directed by Danny and Michael Philippou (aka YouTube’s RackaRacka) and the the US premiere of Robert Connolly’s Blueback.
Screen highlights four more Australian films that should be ready for festival films in the first half of 2023.
The Moogai
Dir. Jon Bell
Bell’s feature debut is a psychological horror about a young woman who believes an evil spirit is intent on taking her children. It explores the subjects of post-natal depression, transgenerational trauma and indigenous children taken from their parents – known as the stolen generation. The proof-of-concept short film of the same name, also written and directed by Bell, won prizes at SXSW and at film festivals in Los Angeles, Sydney and Melbourne. The key cast from the short – Shari Sebbens from The Sapphires, and Meyne Wyatt – will reprise their roles. The producers are Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton from Causeway Films, and Mitchell Stanley. Maslow Umbrella 387 Entertainment is handling local distribution.
Contact: Bankside Films
