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Here Out West is a 2021 Australian anthology film set in culturally diverse Western Sydney. It is made up of eight stories from eight writers and features nine languages. The film has been praised for its positive portrayal of the diversity of Western Sydney. It was the opening film for the 68th Sydney Film Festival. [1][2]
Oct 29, 2021 · The Here Out West screenwriters on the set in Blacktown during filming: (from left) Claire Cao, Arka Das, Bina Bhattacharya, Dee Dogan, Vonne Patiag, Tien Tran, Matias Bolla and Nisrine Amine ...
Nov 23, 2021 · Here Out West is a chapter film from eight emerging and diverse screenwriters living in Western Sydney, brought to the big screen by five female directors. One of those directors is Ana Kokkinos who knew immediately of the significance of the project and wanted to be involved. “It is still rare in this country to celebrate our diverse voices ...
- Exploring Western Sydney Through Film
- An LGA of Concern
- The New Second Generation
Beginning with the story of a newborn kidnapped from a public hospital, we move through many other everyday locations associated with living in the west, including a soccer field, a parking lot, an apartment block, a recently arrived refugee family’s house, rides in buses as well as cars, a Chinese restaurant where the owner insists on wearing trad...
Premiering at the Sydney Film Festival in October 2021, the film surprised everyone (including its 8 young writers and 5 female Australian directors) by being picked as the opening night film. After all, Western Sydney was home to a lot of the areas branded COVID “LGAs of concern” by that stage, making it feel even more remote and dangerous to visi...
This narrative of taking things in their own hands, with a little help from the right mentors and funding agencies is not an isolated incident. In Australia and in comparable immigrant countries, there is a growing population of young, second-generation migrants who have grown up with YouTube and Netflix. For these young people, watching year after...
- Sukhmani Khorana
ABOUT. SYNOPSIS. Nancy visits her daughter in hospital who has just given birth. Tagging along is her 8-year-old Lebanese neighbour, Amirah, who she is babysitting. It is a bittersweet meeting for Nancy, as her new grandchild is about to be taken away, her mother being deemed unfit by the authorities to keep her.
Feb 7, 2022 · Tania Lambert/Here Out West. An anthology film usually makes us think of romantic comedies released over Christmas that showcase a global city through interconnected plot lines, or a series of ...
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Feb 2, 2022 · Here Out West opened 2021’s Sydney Film Festival and is about to relase in theatres domestically, although the pandemic may impact its run during the nation’s largest Covid-19 outbreak yet ...
