‘Buoyancy’.
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy, which opens in cinemas today via Umbrella Entertainment, has been put forward as Australia’s official submission for the Best International Feature Film prize at the 2020 Academy Awards.
The recognition follows the premiere of the Khmer and Thai-language film at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where it won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and placed third in the Panaroma audience awards.
Produced by Causeway Films’ Sam Jennings and Kristina Ceyton with Rita Walsh, Buoyancy details the story of a 14-year old Cambodian boy (Sarm Heng) who heads to Thailand search of a better life, only to find himself trafficked and enslaved on a fishing trawler.
The film was selected for submission to the Academy by a committee of Australian industry professionals convened by Screen Australia.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said: “Buoyancy is a thought-provoking and moving story about human trafficking,...
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy, which opens in cinemas today via Umbrella Entertainment, has been put forward as Australia’s official submission for the Best International Feature Film prize at the 2020 Academy Awards.
The recognition follows the premiere of the Khmer and Thai-language film at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where it won the Ecumenical Jury Prize and placed third in the Panaroma audience awards.
Produced by Causeway Films’ Sam Jennings and Kristina Ceyton with Rita Walsh, Buoyancy details the story of a 14-year old Cambodian boy (Sarm Heng) who heads to Thailand search of a better life, only to find himself trafficked and enslaved on a fishing trawler.
The film was selected for submission to the Academy by a committee of Australian industry professionals convened by Screen Australia.
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said: “Buoyancy is a thought-provoking and moving story about human trafficking,...
- 9/26/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Australian documentary filmmaker James Ricketson was Friday sentenced to six years in jail in Cambodia. He was found guilty of espionage.
Ricketson has been held in prison for the past 14 months. During the seven day trial he denied the charges.
Prosecutors said that he was working with the political opposition to the country’s leader Hun Sen, and had worked with a foreign power.
On his way back to jail, after receiving the verdict, Ricketson was heard shouting “Who am I spying for?” That question was never answered in court and Ricketson repeatedly insisted that his work is not political.
“Since he arrived in Cambodia, the accused person has been collecting political, social and economic information about Cambodia and sending it to a foreign state,” prosecutor Sieng Sok said. “He has kept collecting this information for 22 years, until the day he was arrested. The accused person was using his journalism...
Ricketson has been held in prison for the past 14 months. During the seven day trial he denied the charges.
Prosecutors said that he was working with the political opposition to the country’s leader Hun Sen, and had worked with a foreign power.
On his way back to jail, after receiving the verdict, Ricketson was heard shouting “Who am I spying for?” That question was never answered in court and Ricketson repeatedly insisted that his work is not political.
“Since he arrived in Cambodia, the accused person has been collecting political, social and economic information about Cambodia and sending it to a foreign state,” prosecutor Sieng Sok said. “He has kept collecting this information for 22 years, until the day he was arrested. The accused person was using his journalism...
- 9/1/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Australian documentary filmmaker James Ricketson was convicted today of espionage for an unnamed country by the Cambodian government and sentenced to six years in that country’s prison system.
Ricketson was arrested in June 2017 and charged with endangering national security by flying a drone over an opposition party rally. The charges mushroomed from there.
The soon-to-be 69-year-old filmmaker’s incarceration has sparked international outrage by his fellow filmmakers, most prominently director Phillip Noyce, with many fearing he won’t survive the rigors of Cambodian prison.
“The guilty verdict against James Ricketson is a massive miscarriage of justice,” Noyce posted on Facebook. “I call on filmmakers the world over to join me in offering ourselves to Cambodian authorities as equally guilty of all the crimes James is accused of. We must journey to Cambodia and present our selves on mass as ready to join him in Cambodian prison.
Ricketson was arrested in June 2017 and charged with endangering national security by flying a drone over an opposition party rally. The charges mushroomed from there.
The soon-to-be 69-year-old filmmaker’s incarceration has sparked international outrage by his fellow filmmakers, most prominently director Phillip Noyce, with many fearing he won’t survive the rigors of Cambodian prison.
“The guilty verdict against James Ricketson is a massive miscarriage of justice,” Noyce posted on Facebook. “I call on filmmakers the world over to join me in offering ourselves to Cambodian authorities as equally guilty of all the crimes James is accused of. We must journey to Cambodia and present our selves on mass as ready to join him in Cambodian prison.
- 8/31/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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