2002

Australian Rules
Beneath Clouds
Black & White
Blurred
Crackerjack
Dirty Deeds
Envy
Garage Days
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Rabbit-Proof Fence [AFI Best Picture]
The Hard Word
The Man Who Sued God
The Nugget
The Tracker
Walking on Water
WillFull


Australian Rules
Director, Wirter: Paul Goldman
Cast Includes: Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll, Lisa Flanagan, Tom Budge, Kevin Harrington
Cinematographer: Mandy Walker
Production Designer: Steven Jones-Evans
Genre: Sport / Drama

Based on Australian Rules football the film delves into life's bigger issues like racism, friendship, betrayal, love and abuse.


Beneath Clouds
Director, Writer: Ivan Sen
Cast Includes: Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt
Genre: Drama

Beneath Clouds is the story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.


Black & White
Director: Craig Lahiff
Cast Includes: Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn, David Ngoombujarra, Bille Brown, Heather Mitchell
Genre: Drama

Recreation of the landmark 1958 South Australian Court trial in which young aboriginal Max Stuart was sentenced to hang, having been found guilty of the murder of a nine year old white girl.


Blurred
Director: Evan Clarry
Cast Includes: Matthew Newton, Petra Jared, Jessica Gower, Emma Jackson, Tony Brockman, Mark Priestley, Travis Cotton, Kristian Schmid, Veronica Sywak
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Follows five groups of teenagers as they hit the road for Schoolies Week the famous Australian school leavers tradition hitting the Gold Coast for a week long party.


Crackerjack
Director: Paul Moloney
Cast Includes:
Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, John Clarke, Lois Ramsey, Samuel Johnson, Judith Lucy
Genre: Comedy

When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club and prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.


Dirty Deeds
Director, Writer: David Caesar
Cast Includes: Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington, Kestie Morassi, William McInnes
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Hall
Production Designer: Chris Kennedy
Genre: Comedy / Crime

Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.


Envy
Director: Julie Money
Cast Includes: Linda Cropper, Anna Lise Phillips, Jeff Truman, Scott Major, Abi Tucker
Genre: Thriller

A mother tracks down the woman responsible for her home being invaded and her son molested.


Garage Days
Director, Writer: Alex Proyas
Cast Includes: Kick Gurry, Maya Stange, Pia Miranda, Russell Dykstra, Brett Stiller
Genre: Comedy / Music / Drama

The story of a young garage band in Sydney, Australia trying to make it big.


Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Director: Paul Cox
Cast Includes: David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Kris Kristofferson, Leo McKern, Sam Neill, Alice Krige
Genre: Biography / Drama

The true story of the 19th century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.


Rabbit-Proof Fence
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast Includes: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Deborah Mailman, Kenneth Branagh
Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle
Production & Costume Designer: Roger Ford
Genre: Adventure / Drama

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.


The Hard Word
Director, Writer: Scott Roberts
Cast Includes: Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Joel Edgerton, Robert Taylor, Damien Richardson, Rhonnda Findleton, Vince Colosimo
Genre: Crime / Drama / Comedy / Thriller

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable way to spend their time. However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.


The Man Who Sued God
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast Includes: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, Bille Brown, John Howard, Emily Browning
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) a lawyer come fisherman thru frustration has his boat struck by lightning and destroyed. Denied insurance under the ruling 'an act of God'. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and the church under the geise of God, defending himself.


The Nugget
Director, Writer: Bill Bennett
Cast Includes: Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Dave O'Neil, Belinda Emmett, Peter Moon, Vince Colosimo, Max Cullen
Genre: Comedy

The Nugget looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class Australian men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.


The Tracker
Director, Writer: Rolf de Heer
Cast Includes: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page
Cinematographer: Ian Jones
Genre: Drama / Western / Music

1922 in Australia, a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men (The Fanatic, The Follower and The Veteran) are given the mission of capturing him with the help of an experienced Native Australian (The Tracker - David Gulpilil). Their quest leads them thru the outback, not knowing that their inner wrestles against and for racism will be more dangerous that the actual hunting for the accused.


Walking on Water
Director: Tony Ayres
Cast Includes: Vince Colosimo, Maria Theodorakis, Nathaniel Dean, Judi Farr, Nicholas Bishop, Anna Lise Phillips
Genre: Comedy / Drama

After the death of a friend, a household of long time friends and family are tossed into the myopic world of grief, where jealousy, betrayal and desire override more polite reactions to death.


WillFull
Director: Rebel Russell
Cast Includes: Anna Lise Phillips, C. Thomas Howell, Anne Looby, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Felix Williamson
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy

In this supernatural comic fantasy, C. Thomas Howell plays a motivational speaker whose girlfriend is contacted by her dead mother who follows her around offering unsolicited advice.