Sweet Country

Sweet Country

Movie |

1920s | Rape

  • Duration: 1h 53min
  • Music: Chris Goodes,Adrian Medhurst,Phil Heywood,James Andrews,Evan McHugh
  • Award(s): ADG 2019 (Won)
    Golden Lion 2017 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Patriots Day, Bender
  • Story:
    It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
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6.9/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Ratings

6.9/10

IMDb

AWARDS

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Won
ADG Award

Best Direction in a Feature Film Budget M or over | 2019 | Warwick

AFCA Award

Best Actor | 2019 | Hamilton

Best Film | 2019

Best Supporting Actor | 2019 | Sam

AACTA Award

Best Lead Actor | 2018 | Hamilton

Best Film | 2018 | Greer

Best Direction | 2018 | Warwick

Best Original Screenplay | 2018 | Steven

Critics Award

2018 | Warwick

Awgie Award

Feature Film Original | 2018 | David

Audience Award

Best Feature | 2017 | Warwick

Asia Pacific Screen Award

Best Film | 2017 | Greer

Platform Prize Award

2017 | Warwick

FCCA Award

Best Director | 2019 | Warwick

Best Actor Male | 2019 | Hamilton

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Nominations
Golden Lion Award

Best Film | 2017 | Warwick

Grand Jury Award

Best International Feature | 2018 | Warwick

Best Feature | 2018 | Warwick

AFCA Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2019 | Bryan

Best Supporting Actress | 2019

FCCA Award

Best Cinematography | 2019 | Warwick

Best Actor Supporting Role | 2019 | Sam

AACTA International Award

Best Direction | 2019 | Warwick

Dragon Award

International Competition | 2018 | Warwick

In Spirit for Freedom Award

Best Feature | 2018 | Warwick

CGA Award

Best Casting in a Feature Film | 2018 | Anousha

ASE Award

Best Editing in a Feature Film | 2018 | Nick

AACTA Award

Best Supporting Actress | 2018

Grand Prix Award

2018 | Warwick

ICP Award

Best 2018 Movies Already Seen | 2017

Asia Pacific Screen Award

Best Screenplay | 2017 | Steven

Achievement in Cinematography | 2017 | Warwick

Golden Frog Award

Main Competition | 2017 | Dylan

Golden Spike Award

Best Film | 2017 | Warwick

Best Film Award

Official Competition | 2017 | Warwick

Peoples Choice Award

GalaBest Film | 2017 | Warwick

Jury Award

Best Narrative Feature | 2017 | Warwick

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The film is based on a real life true crime murder case where an Aboriginal man was arrested and put on trial for murdering a white man in central Australia during the 1920s.

The picture's director Warwick Thornton has said of this movie's filming locations and settings: "That landscape around Alice Springs is sacred. The MacDonnell Ranges are always in my mind from growing up there with my family. So, Sweet Country (2017) is a film about the land and our family, and what happened when the missionaries and pastoralists arrived."

Reportedly, the character of the teenage boy Philomac is actually portrayed by two actors, Trevorn Doolan and Tremayne Doolan, who are both brothers and also twins.

David Tranter, the director of 'Willaberta Jack' (2007), and screenwriter and sound recordist for 'Sweet Country' (2017), has said: "-'Sweet Country' comes from my family. It was story from up in the Territory, north of Alice Springs and Philomac was my grandfather. I made a documentary about him and his older brother called 'Willaberta Jack'. Then I was in the Tiwi Islands with Steve McGregor and Murray Lui working on a film as the sound recordist. After the shoot we went back to the house and had a cup of tea and Murray said that Willaberta Jack story, that would make a great movie. And I said yeah - but I'm not a writer. But I wanted to try so I went and bought myself a couple of sketch books, and I started drawing the story in pictures and it took me about two weeks. Then I sat down with Stephen Cleary who helped me type it up into a treatment. I took it to the Ignite Screenwriting workshop and they helped me get 128 pages written in four days. I was real proud of myself. In the end we did three drafts and I sent each draft to David Jowsey and Steven Mcgregor, and Steven was the one who got the script to the point of making it. Me personally, I'm just happy to share the story with Australia, with the rest of the world. I'm just pinching myself too, you know, there's been great reviews. But I just really hope that Australia will embrace it, and have a look at their past because it's not just our story, it's everybody's story."

Reportedly, the film' screenplay was inspired by indigenous Australian Aboriginal tribal stories told down the ancestral line by the grandfather of the film's co-screenwriter David Tranter.

Popular Dialogues

"Fred Smith: We're all equal here. We're all equal in the eyes of the Lord."