AustLit

' "It's a vertical film, but that's not the thing that defines it." says Michael Retter of his film Youth on the March, set to make its word premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival. "It's an attempt to make a very honest film about young people smoking pot and that lifestyle and world around it. I guess I was attempting to make the greatest stoner film of all time." ' (Introduction)

'Australia Day is a gruelling journey through the streets of Brisbane and subterranean national prejudices, but it does have a lot of heart and features some excellent performances.Director Kriv Stenders handled this sometimes scorching ensemble drama amid a flurry of other projects (the Red Dog sequel, his Go-Betweens doco, the Wake In Fright miniseries), and it certainly paints an unflattering but awfully real view of contemporary Australia, suggesting that perhaps he’s doing penance for those oh-so-nice Red Dogs.' (Introduction)