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Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, with its echoes of Wake in Fright, joins Australia’s recent indie success stories. After snaring Sydney Film Festival’s Audience Award, their debut feature – made on a shoestring – sold out all its sessions at the Melbourne International Film Festival (with an additional screening now added), landed distribution with Umbrella and generated a significant amount of buzz.
Clark and Weir met while studying at AFTRS, and after graduating, formed produ...