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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Birdeater
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'Recently engaged Irene (Shabana Azeez, also in Run Rabbit Run, SFF 2023) has been roped into joining her awkward but loving fiancé Louie’s (Mackenzie Fearnley) buck’s party weekend out in the sticks. Louie’s deadbeat groomsmen, however, have more in mind than just a quiet glass of pinot by the fire, and as night falls the celebration nosedives into a feverish, drug-fuelled train wreck. Inspired by the likes of Wake in Fright, directing duo Jack Clark (Threshold, SFF 2021) and Jim Weir present a challenging, darkly comic portrait of young Aussie men that strikes a little too close to home.'

Source: Sydney Film Festival. 

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Works about this Work

I Was Asked to Come up with My Top 5 Aussie Films of 2024. It Was a Difficult Task Ari Mattes , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 December 2024;

— Review of Late Night with the Devil Cameron Cairnes , Colin Cairnes , 2023 single work film/TV ; Christmess Heath Davis , 2023 single work film/TV ; Force of Nature Robert Connolly , 2023 single work film/TV ; Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV ; The Moogai Jon Bell , 2024 single work film/TV
Party Out of Bounds Stephen Romei , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 July 2024; (p. 6)

— Review of Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV
New Psychological Thriller Birdeater Is a Gen Z Take on Aussie Cult Classic Wake in Fright Nicola Heath , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2024;

— Review of Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV

'A group of friends gets together for a weekend in the country to celebrate one of their forthcoming nuptials.'

Birdeater Starts like a Successor to Wake In Fright – but Ends up like an Episode of Home and Away Ari Mattes , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 18 July 2024;

— Review of Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV

'In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971).'

Birdeater Starts like a Successor to Wake In Fright – but Ends up like an Episode of Home and Away Ari Mattes , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 18 July 2024;

— Review of Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV

'In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971).'

New Psychological Thriller Birdeater Is a Gen Z Take on Aussie Cult Classic Wake in Fright Nicola Heath , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2024;

— Review of Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV

'A group of friends gets together for a weekend in the country to celebrate one of their forthcoming nuptials.'

Party Out of Bounds Stephen Romei , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 July 2024; (p. 6)

— Review of Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV
I Was Asked to Come up with My Top 5 Aussie Films of 2024. It Was a Difficult Task Ari Mattes , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 23 December 2024;

— Review of Late Night with the Devil Cameron Cairnes , Colin Cairnes , 2023 single work film/TV ; Christmess Heath Davis , 2023 single work film/TV ; Force of Nature Robert Connolly , 2023 single work film/TV ; Birdeater Jack Clark , Jim Weir , 2023 single work film/TV ; The Moogai Jon Bell , 2024 single work film/TV
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