At seventeen Josie Alibrandi is a girl with attitude about to enter her final year as a scholarship student at an exclusive Catholic College. It's the year her life is turned upside down and changed forever. She meets her father for the first time; discovers some astonishing things about her family heritage; falls in love - with the wrong guy - and has her first painful encounter with grief.

Awards

LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI triumphed with an outstanding five 2000 AFI Awards. These included Best Film, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Pia Miranda, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Performance by an Actress in a supporting role for Greta Scacchi and Best Achievement in Editing.

Details

Producer: Robyn Kershaw
Director: Kate Woods
Starring: Gretta Scacchi, Anthony LaPaglia, Pia Miranda
Running Time: 103 mins
Year of Production: 1999

Love, sex and overdue library fines. Just some of the challenges faced in one day by five university students, in this romantic comedy.

Details

Producer: Stavros Efthymiou
Director: Emma-Kate Croghan
Writers: Yael Bergman, Emma-Kate Croghan, Helen Bandis
Starring: Frances O''Connor, Alice Garner, Matt Day, Radha Mitchell
Running time: 80 minutes
Year of production: 1996

It's the 1950s and three teenage friends make a fumbling attempt to collectively lose their virginity. A light-hearted look at the icons, social mores, and music of the era.

Details

Producer/Director: David Elfick
Co-producers: Nina Stevenson, John Winter
Starring: Russell Crowe, Aden Young
Running time: 99 minutes
Year of production: 1992
US distributor: Miramax

Two sisters in an Australian country town develop a fierce and competitive crush on their new neighbour, a brooding and self-centred radio personality with a predilection for smouldering 70s soul and a taste for the younger ladies.

Awards

Winner, Camera D'Or - Cannes Film Festival, 1996
Co-Winner, Best Young Director Award - Valladolid Film Festival, 1996
Official Selection - Valladolid Film Festival, 1996
Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival, 1997
Official Selection - Rotterdam Film Festival, 1997

Details

Producer: Jan Chapman
Writer/Director: Shirley Barrett
Starring: Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith, George Shevtsov
Running time: 101 minutes
Year of production: 1996

Mallboy is a universal story about the difficult decisions that jolt you out of adolescence and face you towards adulthood. Ready or not.

Awards

The 2000 AFI Young Actors Award went to Kane McNay, star of Beyond’s soon to be released MALL BOY which was launched by Beyond at Director’s Fortnight during the 2000 Cannes’ Film Festival.

Official Selection - Milan International Film Festival 2000
Official Selection - Filmfest Hamburg 2000
Official Selection - Mill Valley Film Festival 2000

Details

Producer: Fiona Egger
Writer/Director: Vincent Giarrusso
Starring: Kane McNay, Nell Feeney
Running time: 90 mins
Year of production: 2000