Born: Established: ca. 1973 ;
Gender:
Female
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Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
( dir. Cathy Randall
)
Australia
:
EB Productions
Tama Films
,
2008
Z1491337
2008
single work
film/TV
'HEY HEY IT’S ESTHER BLUEBURGER – a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life’s unending quest to fit in… and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out – introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger’s quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni, the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes AWOL from her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family to hang out with Sunni’s far breezier and super-hip single mum Mary and attend Sunni’s forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student.'
Source: Screen Australia.
- 2003 winner AWGIE Awards — Monte Miller Award
- 2008 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Original Screenplay
- 2008 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
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