"Writer, director and producer Lawrence Johnston graduated from Victoria's Swinburn Film and Television School in 1990. His films have garnered wards locally and internationally. His first film, Night Out, screened in the 1990 Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard program and was named "one of the year's best" by Villiage Voice." (Source: Australian Film Commission, Dreaming in Motion: Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers, Australian Film Commission, 2007, p 40)