Marieka Walsh

The Hunter

Marieka Walsh

Jack Finsterer

In this stop motion sand animation, a lone hunter undertakes a search for a missing boy deep in the snow covered mountains. THE HUNTER premiered at SXSW in 2012, has featured in competition at over 50 international festivals and won several awards including the AFI/ AACTA in 2013.

The Turning

Stephen Page, Robert Connolly

Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

The Crossing

Marieka Walsh

Colin Friels

A tender fable of an ageing sea captain, who risks the lives of his men when he decides to change course, taking his ship through a violent storm.

Barbara

Marieka Walsh, Larissa Behrendt

Barbara was caring for her grandchildren when her granddaughter Tiara was taken from school by welfare workers. Barbara fought for the next seven months to have her returned and finally won but the consequences of the removal on the family will never go away.