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Jonathan auf der Heide won the Best Emerging Filmmaker award at the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival, and his debut feature Van Diemen’s Land was released the following year.
Van Diemen's Land is a 2009 Australian thriller set in 1822 in colonial Tasmania. [1] It follows the story of the infamous Irish convict, Alexander Pearce, played by Oscar Redding [2] and his escape with seven other convicts. The voice-over and some of the dialogue is in Irish.
Van Diemen's Land: Directed by Jonathan auf der Heide. With Oscar Redding, Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft, Thomas M. Wright. Alexander Pearce, Australia's notorious convict, escaped Macquarie Harbour in 1822, finding the harsh Australian wilderness and abandoning hope in the harsh Australian wilderness.
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- 2009-09-24
Sep 15, 2009 · Paul Hayes spoke with Jonathan Auf Der Heide, the director who’s bringing a missing chapter to life. To most Australians, the mention of colonial Australia will conjure images of Burke and Wills discovering the breadth of the land, or Ned Kelly heroically railing against a tyrannical English rule.
Dec 19, 2012 · In retelling the true story of the escape of eight convicts in 1822 from the isolated Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on Sarah Island in Tasmania (then Van Diemen’s Land), Jonathan auf der Heide engages in what cine-scholars would dub as ‘Tasmanian Gothic’.
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May 4, 2010 · Jonathan auf der Heide’s gritty, gristly drama Van Diemen’s Land follows the travails of a group of escaped convicts in the remotest area of Australia in 1822. With its majestic but grim location photography and brooding, mystic voice-over (our narrator is prone to mystic utterances like ‘I am blood’), this is somewhat akin to one of ...
Nov 30, 2012 · Primarily based on convict Alexander Pearce’s four confessions, Jonathan auf der Heide’s 2009 feature film Van Diemen’s Land is a retelling of the true story of the escape of eight convicts in 1822 from the isolated Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on Sarah Island in Tasmania (then Van Diemen’s Land). Infamously, unable to sustain ...
