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'An outwardly happy Australian couple, Ben and Fiona, journey to Calcutta, India to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements at the agency have yet to be finalised. They have no option but to wait in this chaotic, foreign place. But as the intoxicating mystic powers of the Indian city pulls them in each separate and unexpected directions, the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
'Forced to confront their differences and the concealed deep secrets that they've both been long avoiding, Ben and Fiona ultimately rediscover themselves and a belief in life's possibilities, their marriage and the invigorating power and joy of the human spirit.'
Source: The Waiting City website, http://www.thewaitingcity.com.au/
Sighted: 07/07/2010
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For further information, see The Waiting City website: http://www.thewaitingcity.com.au/
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Abroad : Production Tracks and Narrative Trajectories in Films About Australians in Asia
2018
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen in the 2000s 2018; (p. 99-117) Examines two modern 'Asian-Australian' films that represent Australians abroad in Asia (including India and Cambodia), and compares them to earlier films of Australians overseas. -
Theorising Film Festivals as Distributors and Investigating the Post-Festival Distribution of Australian Films
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , vol. 11 no. 2 2017; (p. 46-58)This paper theorises film festivals as distribution circuits, positioning film festivals in the broader cinema ecology to assess their role in delivering local films to local audiences. Recasting current research trends into film festivals through the lens of distribution enables us to see how festivals function as more than another exhibition screen - as a type of distributor. I offer a case study of Sydney Film Festival to explore the following research questions: What is the distributive function and nature of film festivals for Australian films? What happens to local titles following their festival runs? How can we explain the gap between Australian films' continued popularity at film festivals and their continued under-performance in the rest of the marketplace? In answering these questions, this article demonstrates how film festivals have become crucial to both the Australian film industry and the cinema industry at large over the last 10 years, to the point that they have almost replaced the art-house circuit and come to provide an essential, highly specialised distribution channel for small to medium budget films. For this reason, I argue that material and economic drivers are as essential to the current boon in film festivals as cultural ones, and that the film festival circuit has not been able to address the problem of distribution for auteurist, independent and art cinema in an age of digitisation. I present evidence that localises, concretises and specifies festival research, suggesting the major festivals in Australia are an increasingly discrete and self-contained distribution sector within the wider cinema ecology, which has significant implications for theorisations of festivals as feeders for theatrical circuits.
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The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016; -
'Aussies Go Bolly' : Australian Journeys through Indian Cinemascape
2011
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— Appears in: India and Australia : Bridging Different Worlds 2011; (p. 178-195) -
Indigenous Australian's Acts Showcased in Saint Tropez
2010
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— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 9 December vol. 9 no. 916 2010; (p. 32-33) 12th Festival des Antipodes in St. Tropez, 11-17 October 2010 is devoted to cinema from Australia and New Zealand.
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Births, Deaths and Marriages
2010
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review
— Appears in: The Monthly , July no. 58 2010; (p. 58-60)
— Review of The Waiting City 2009 single work film/TV -
Tale of One Little India
2010
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 - 11 July 2010; (p. 15)
— Review of The Waiting City 2009 single work film/TV -
Film
2010
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— Appears in: Brisbane News , 14 - 20 July no. 792 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of The Waiting City 2009 single work film/TV -
When Stars Align in India
2010
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— Appears in: The Australian , 14 July 2010; (p. 15)
— Review of The Waiting City 2009 single work film/TV -
New Release
2010
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 July 2010; (p. 23)
— Review of The Waiting City 2009 single work film/TV -
The Waiting Game in a City of Spare Children
2010
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 July 2010; (p. 9) -
In Love with India
2010
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— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 11 July 2010; (p. 24-25) -
Light and Shade of Filming in India
2010
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— Appears in: The Australian , 6 July 2010; (p. 3) -
No More Waiting
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 July 2010; (p. 31-32) -
Juno-esque in Saffon
2010
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— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 54 no. 9 2010; (p. 112-114)
Awards
- 2011 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Original Screenplay
- 2011 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Film
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