'Sweet Country' was named Best Film at Wednesday's AACTA Award Ceremony, with the period Western also taking home Best Direction for Warwick Thornton and Best Lead Actor for Hamilton Morris.
“The opening sequence is not a wide shot; it's a shot of a billy can boiling. The black tea goes in and then the white sugar goes in, and it all gets boiled together; it's a metaphor for the landscape and the society and a time and a place.”
