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Male
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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form
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The Rocket
Die Rakete
( dir. Kim Mordaunt
)
Australia
:
Red Lamp Films
,
2012
Z1908219
2012
single work
film/TV
'A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey, to prove he's not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.' (Source: Screen Australia website)
- 2014 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
- 2014 shortlisted AFCA Film Awards — Best Screenplay
- 2014 shortlisted AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
- 2014 shortlisted AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
- 2013 winner Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Original Screenplay — Feature Film
- 2013 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Film — Feature Film
- 2013 winner Tribeca Film Festival Award — Best Narrative Feature
- 2013 winner Tribeca Film Festival Award — Best Actor : Narrative Feature awarded to Sitthiphon Disamoe
- 2013 winner Tribeca Film Festival Award — Audience Award : Narrative
- 2013 winner Berlin International Film Festival — Best Debut Film
- 2013 winner Berlin International Film Festival — Amnesty International Film Prize
- 2013 winner AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Original
- 2013 winner Berlin International Film Festival — Crystal Bear Generation Kplus - Best Film
- 2013 winner Sydney Film Festival Awards — Audience Award — Best Narrative Feature
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