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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 Cold Turkey
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'Cold Turkey is a short drama produced for SBS Independent, about two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living in Alice Springs.'

'Shane and Robby are Indigenous brothers living in Alice Springs. Robby is leaving for a job in the opal fields of Coober Pedy. Feeling abandoned, Shane taunts him into drinking heavily and plots to find a way of stopping him from leaving. Awakening in a prison cell, the brothers attempt to reconstruct the events of the preceding night – a long night of self-destructive drinking. Gradually the pieces of the nightmare start falling into place, or do they?'

'A story of disempowerment and the breaking of a spirit, Cold Turkey provides a twist on the theme of “brotherly love”. Superbly acted by its young cast, and inventively directed, this intense and unsettling drama offers an insight into the emotional dimension of social dislocation and alienation among young Aboriginal men in an urban context.'

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Steven McGregor Australian Film Commission , 2007 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Dreaming in Motion : Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers 2007; (p. 48-49)
Contains Steven McGregor's short film biography, his filmography, details on the film: Cold Turkey, and a small commentary by McGregor on filmmaking.
Steven McGregor Australian Film Commission , 2007 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Dreaming in Motion : Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers 2007; (p. 48-49)
Contains Steven McGregor's short film biography, his filmography, details on the film: Cold Turkey, and a small commentary by McGregor on filmmaking.
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