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'A visually haunting story of an adolescent girl's discovery of the difference between sex and love in the winter landscape of an Australian ski resort town.'
Source: Screen Australia.
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Working title: More Than Scarlet
Somersault won all thirteen feature film categories in the 2004 AFI Awards. This was the first occasion on which a film had made a clean sweep of all categories.
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The Emerald City of Oz : The City of Sydney as a Gay Space in Australian Feature FilmsScott McKinnon,
2012single work criticism — Appears in:
Studies in Australasian Cinema,Marchvol.
5no.
32012;(p. 307-319)'Australian feature films featuring gay male characters have consistently defined the inner-city - and particularly the inner-city of Sydney - as a gay space. This article examines a range of such films within the historical context of the emergence of gay male community and culture in Sydney. While this history reveals the complex and contested nature of gay men's connections to the city, on-screen depictions have tended to mask such complexity in favour of a simplistic urban/gay versus rural/straight divide. By repeatedly exploring gay life in inner-city spaces through the eyes of heterosexual, rural visitors, Australian films have developed and replicated discourses that have seen Sydney defined as the 'true' home of gay male community and culture.' (Editor's abstract)
