Women administrators are poised to make a serious splash on the Australian Directors Guild Awards this 12 months. “For the first time ever, women dominate the major feature film categories with five out of the seven directors nominated for best direction in a feature film (budget A$1 million or over) being women and four of the six nominees in the best direction in a debut feature film category also being women,” Variety stories.
Helmers up for greatest course in a characteristic movie embrace Cate Shortland for Marvel blockbuster “Black Widow,” Sophie Hyde for intercourse comedy “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” and Leah Purcell for revisionist Western “The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson.”
Purcell can be up for greatest course in a debut characteristic movie. Among the titles up for honors in that class are Del Kathryn Barton’s “Blaze,” the story of a younger woman who’s left catatonic with shock after witnessing a violent crime, and Philippa Bateman’s “Wash My Soul In The River’s Flow,” a documentary spotlighting First Nations singer-songwriters Ruby Hunter and Archie Roach.
The awards will probably be held December 8. Check out all the nominees on the Australian Directors Guild’s web site.
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