Beneath Clouds

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Beneath Clouds
Directed by	Ivan Sen
Produced by	Teresa-Jayne Hanlon
Written by	Ivan Sen
Starring	Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt
Release date(s)	2002
Running time	90 mins
Language	English
Budget	AU$2.5 million
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Beneath Clouds is a 2002 film by Australian director Ivan Sen.

The film follows two teenagers, Lena (Dannielle Hall) and Vaughn (Damian Pitt) who are hitchhiking their way from a rural New South Wales town to Sydney, each for different reasons. The film explores many of the racial difficulties in their society as well as the way the choices each makes can effect how they turn out. The film was based on Ivan Sen's own experiences of growing up in Alice Springs with an Aboriginal mother and absent European father.

Beneath Clouds is the feature film debut by the two lead actors. Damian Pitt was approached by Sen on the streets of Moree, New South Wales, and had never acted before. Dannielle Hall was cast through a more traditional method, via an audition tape. Much of the support cast were local residents from Pitt's hometown of Moree.

The film was financed by the New South Wales Film Commission and the Pacific Film & TV Commission.

The film won the Best Direction and Best Cinematography awards at the 2002 Australian Film Institute Awards. It also won the Best First Movie award and Best New Talent award (for Danielle Hall) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival, and the Best Direction award at the 2002 Inside Film Awards.

[edit] See also

List of Australian films

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[edit] External links

Beneath Clouds at the Internet Movie Database

Beneath Clouds at the National Film and Sound Archive

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