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'In the real world you can't just do what you want. In the real world you have to compromise. Mark Blazey does not want to live in the real world. Living in a semi-industrial coastal town, seventeen-year-old Mark is a smart kid from a chaotic family who has just thrown away a scholarship to a private school and found himself at the local high. At school Mark is zeroed in on by an overbearing principal who dominates everything around him. At home Mark is dealing with a jail-bound brother, his grandmother is fighting for her life, and a mum whose short fuse is kept doused with cask wine. His little sister is someone he wants to protect. When Mark finds his first real love he tries to escape all the forces in his life with her. But his love is with the daughter of his nemesis, the school principal. Simmering tensions boil over between the student and the teacher, between the son and his mother.'
Source: Author's blurb.
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This Is the Real World of Cinema
2016
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 June 2016; (p. 29) When Martin McKenna created a bad-boy character for his film, there was one person he had in mind for the role.Rapper 360 – real name Matt Colwell – plays Jimmy in McKenna’s stirring new Aussie film Is This The Real World and was always the writer and director’s first choice.“ -
Hard Work’s a Pleasure for Young Australian Actor
2016
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— Appears in: The Age , 3 June 2016; (p. 6)
— Review of Is This the Real World 2015 single work film/TV -
2016 : The Year in Australian Film
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 29 December 2016; -
Sean Keenan : A Teen Dream in is This the Real World
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 24 July 2016; -
Matt Colwell : Keeping It Real in is This the Real World
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 29 May 2016; FilmInk , 24 July 2016;
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Hard Work’s a Pleasure for Young Australian Actor
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 June 2016; (p. 6)
— Review of Is This the Real World 2015 single work film/TV -
This Is the Real World of Cinema
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 June 2016; (p. 29) When Martin McKenna created a bad-boy character for his film, there was one person he had in mind for the role.Rapper 360 – real name Matt Colwell – plays Jimmy in McKenna’s stirring new Aussie film Is This The Real World and was always the writer and director’s first choice.“ -
(Sweet) Sixteen Great Australian Teen Films
Erin Free
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2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 20 May 2016; -
(Sweet) Sixteen Great Australian Teen Films
Erin Free
(editor),
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 20 May 2016; -
Matt Colwell : Keeping It Real in is This the Real World
2016
single work
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 29 May 2016; FilmInk , 24 July 2016; -
Sean Keenan : A Teen Dream in is This the Real World
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 24 July 2016;
Awards
- 2014 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Original