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Awards (click to collapse)

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Australia (2001) – Winner: FCCA Award: Best Documentary

Australian Film Institute, Australia (2001) – Winner: AFI Award: Best Achievement in Direction in a Documentary

Australian Film Institute, Australia (2001) – Nominated: AFI Award: Best Documentary

Chicago International Film Festival, USA (2001) – Nominated: Gold Hugo: Best Documentary

DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, USA (2002) – Winner: Best Editing

Hollywood Film Awards, USA (2001) – Winner: Hollywood Discovery Award: Best Documentary

Feature
International

2001

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Cunnamulla… the end of the railway line in outback Queensland. Christmas in the bush, and there’s a lot more going on than the annual lizard race. Aboriginal and white Australians live together but apart. Creativity struggles against indifference, eccentricity against conformity. Daily dramas unfold. Famous country-and-western singer Slim Dusty is coming to town, a teenage concert pianist is touring with her pet cat, and Santa Claus is sweltering in his suit. Sometimes sad, often hilarious, this is an astonishingly honest portrait of the eccentricities, hypocrisies and reality of life in an isolated community.


Previous Festivals

DoubleTake Doc FF, USA (2002)

Chicago Int’l FF, USA (2001)