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According to Screen Australia, 'The film follows a woman who travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father to try and mend their fractured bond.'
Source: Screen Australia (https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2017/07-27-venice-film-festival). (Sighted: 08/08/2017)
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Venice’s Biennale College – Cinema, which provided development and production support, is dedicated to the production of micro-budget films
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Works about this Work
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Film Is a Continent
2018
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— Appears in: Arena Magazine , December / January no. 157 2018-2019; (p. 53-54)'From Gothic mythologies and schlock-horror antics to ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya?’ politicos, mismanaged Sunrise protests on Gold Coast beaches and Big Brother, Australian film and TV has only rarely been able to offer up anything other than self-effacing jokes. With this in mind, it is remarkable how deftly Alena Lodkina’s debut feature film, Strange Colours, manages to cut across this massive, permanent identity crisis of a country by bringing together two of its most prevalent motifs: resource exploitation and unrequited love. One reason for this could be that the film was not financed in Australia but in Italy. So if the answer is Australia, what was the question?' (Introduction)
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MIFF 2018: A Melbourne Movement
2018
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 September 2018; -
Australian Film Strange Colours Evokes the Landscape and Community of Black Opal Capital Lightning Ridge
2018
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2018;'For a debut feature film made on a microbudget, Strange Colours is courting an impressive amount of industry buzz.' (Introduction)
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Kate Cheel : Finding Gems in A Strange Land
2018
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 15 June 2018; -
Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours : A Bold New Australian Voice Takes on Lightning Ridge
2018
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 June 2018;'The Russian-born director captures dreamers, drinkers and drifters in a place where ‘nothing much happens’'
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Strange Colours, Venice Triumphs
2017
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 2 September 2017; -
Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours : A Bold New Australian Voice Takes on Lightning Ridge
2018
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 June 2018;'The Russian-born director captures dreamers, drinkers and drifters in a place where ‘nothing much happens’'
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Kate Cheel : Finding Gems in A Strange Land
2018
single work
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 15 June 2018; -
Australian Film Strange Colours Evokes the Landscape and Community of Black Opal Capital Lightning Ridge
2018
single work
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2018;'For a debut feature film made on a microbudget, Strange Colours is courting an impressive amount of industry buzz.' (Introduction)
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MIFF 2018: A Melbourne Movement
2018
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 18 September 2018;
Awards
- 2019 nominated AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
- 2019 nominated AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
- 2018 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Director
- 2018 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Film
- 2018 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Indie Film