According to Screen Australia, 'The film follows a woman who travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father to try and mend their fractured bond.'
Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2017/07-27-venice-film-festival). (Sighted: 08/08/2017)
Venice’s Biennale College – Cinema, which provided development and production support, is dedicated to the production of micro-budget films
'From Gothic mythologies and schlock-horror antics to ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya?’ politicos, mismanaged Sunrise protests on Gold Coast beaches and Big Brother, Australian film and TV has only rarely been able to offer up anything other than self-effacing jokes. With this in mind, it is remarkable how deftly Alena Lodkina’s debut feature film, Strange Colours, manages to cut across this massive, permanent identity crisis of a country by bringing together two of its most prevalent motifs: resource exploitation and unrequited love. One reason for this could be that the film was not financed in Australia but in Italy. So if the answer is Australia, what was the question?' (Introduction)
'For a debut feature film made on a microbudget, Strange Colours is courting an impressive amount of industry buzz.' (Introduction)
'The Russian-born director captures dreamers, drinkers and drifters in a place where ‘nothing much happens’'
'The Russian-born director captures dreamers, drinkers and drifters in a place where ‘nothing much happens’'
'For a debut feature film made on a microbudget, Strange Colours is courting an impressive amount of industry buzz.' (Introduction)
