Ten Canoes Articles

Rolf de Heer in The Balanda and the Bark Canoes (top); Hunt Angels by Sue Maslin (bottom) London Australian Film Festival 2007: New Features THE DOCUMENTARIES: This year's documentary strand boasts a selection of eight titles. A double-bill co-presented by Dochouse explore cross culturalism in Australia. Rolf de Heer's The Balanda and the Bark Canoes (UK Premiere) is a compelling companion piece to his Ten [...]

Laura Linney in Jindabyne (top); Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer (bottom) PRESS RELEASE The 13th London Australian Film Festival Thursday 15 March – Sunday 25 March The ten-day London Australian Film Festival returns to the Barbican for its 13th consecutive year with the biggest and strongest programme yet of 25 new features (including for the first time this year all the 2006 Australian Film [...]

The winners of the 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards (AFI Awards), which cover Australian film and television, were announced in two stages: "industry" awards on Dec. 6, and the top awards on Dec. 7. In the film categories, the top winner was Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr's Ten Canoes, the tale of the ancestors of the ancestors of the ancestors of one group of [...]

2006 Australian Film Institute Awards 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards nominations: Oct. 19, 2006 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards winners: Dec. 6 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 7 (top categories), 2006 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)     NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS BEST FILM Candy – Margaret Fink & Emile Sherman Jindabyne – April Films & Catherine Jarman Kenny – Clayton Jacobson & Rohan Timlock [...]