“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.”
“There are some directors, when they come knocking, you essentially go, 'I will play a horse in your movie.’ It doesn’t matter if it’s a small role.”
Warwick Thornton’s 'Sweet Country' was named Best Feature Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, held in Brisbane last night.
Warwick Thornton’s 'Sweet Country' is among the best Australian films to ever grace the Venice Film Festival, according to one of the festival's consultants.
Warwick Thornton's 'Sweet Country' proved the people's choice at this year's Adelaide Film Festival, with audiences voting it Best Fiction Feature.
Warwick Thornton’s 'Sweet Country' has received three nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the most nominations ever received by an Australian film.
Alethea Jones’ first reaction when she was informed she was among the winners of this year’s Screen Australia Breakthrough Award from Australians in Film could not have been more self-effacing.
Warwick Thornton’s period Western 'Sweet Country' has won a key prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, judged the best of 12 titles in the Platform program of director’s cinema.