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Broadsheet Jane Albert 1 May 2020 The beautiful film, set in western Sydney, made its debut at the Sydney Film Festival but has been fast-tracked for a digital release. “[It’s] a very positive piece about who this country is now; we need those stories about community, particularly when we’re all isolated.” It’s a mark of […]

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NFSA Sean O’Brien October 2019 Elise Lockwood Stills and Interview Exactly 25 years ago Elise Lockwood landed a dream job – shooting the stills for the film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). Elise’s work also features in the exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.   A WILD RIDE As a young photographer in the […]

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abc.net.au Sarah Thomas September 5, 2019 Music has always been in the blood for Sydney composer Rafael May. He says he was constantly creating compositions as a child and the first major work he penned was a rock opera adaptation of Macbeth at high school. “It was not too bad,” he says of his debut […]

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Film Pulse Adam Patterson September 3, 2019 A new trailer has been released for the drama Hearts and Bones, starring Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, and Bolude Watson. Written and directed by Ben Lawrence and co-written by Beatrix Christian, Weaving plays a war photographer who befriends a Sudanese refugee after planning an exhibition of photographs taken after a massacre in the man’s village. Hearts […]

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Deadline Dino-Ray Ramos September 3, 2019 EXCLUSIVE: From The Matrix to Lord of the Rings, actor Hugo Weaving is known for many of his roles in fantasy films but in Ben Lawrence’s forthcoming feature Hearts and Bones, he stretches his dramatic muscles. Weaving stars opposite newcomer Andrew Luri, who worked as a garbage truck driver before auditioning and landing the role […]

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