Inspired by the real-life plight of workers sold into Southeast Asia’s fishing industry and featuring a powerful performance from its first-time star, this gripping high seas drama was awarded the Panorama Prize by Berlinale’s Ecumenical Jury.
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen's debut feature 'Buoyancy' has been put forward as Australia's official submission for the Best International Feature Film prize at the 2020 Academy Awards.
Rodd Rathjen's 'Buoyancy' won Best Youth Feature Film at last night's Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in Brisbane.
Two Australian films - Rodd Rathjen's debut feature 'Buoyancy' and Daniel Gordon's feature documentary 'The Australian Dream' - are nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).
Another four Australian projects have joined the line-up at the Berlin International Film Festival: feature documentary 'She Who Must Be Loved', 2015 film 'Tanna' and two shorts, 'Blackbird' and 'The Mermaids, Or Aiden in Wonderland'.
This year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) opener - director Daniel Gordon's The Australian Dream - has proved an audience favourite, winning the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Director Rodd Rathjen showed his mettle in his debut feature 'Buoyancy' so he is an obvious choice to direct an asylum seeker drama based on the harrowing experiences of Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani.
Causeway Films will produce writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature 'Buoyancy', a story set in rural Cambodia that follows a young boy enslaved on a fishing trawler.