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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]
Jul 14, 2022 · Critically acclaimed feature film, Here Out West, follows eight interconnected stories set in the buzzing and ever-changing melting pot of Western Sydney. #H...
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Here Out West: Directed by Fadia Abboud, Lucy Gaffy, Julie Kalceff, Ana Kokkinos, Leah Purcell. With Nisrine Amine, Mia-Lore Bayeh, Gladys Iturra Beiza, Shameer Birges.
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- Fadia Abboud, Lucy Gaffy, Julie Kalceff
- 2022-02-03
- 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
Feb 2, 2022 · Here Out West is as much about the collective effect as its individual instalments. One of its biggest aesthetic wins comes from its pivotal setting and commitment to surveying Western Sydney’s ...
Here Out West is an impressive piece of work that highlights the multiculturalism of Australian talent. It provides a dramatically illuminating portmanteau about the lives of diverse people in ...
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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 ...
