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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Ivan Sen
Script :
Ivan Sen
Photography :
Allan Collins
Editor :
Karen Johnson
Cast :
Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors, Simon Swan, Mundurra Weldon, Athol French, Judy Duncan, Kevin Pitt, Wayne Dargin
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BENEATH CLOUDS
In a tiny desolate town of the Australian interior, there is only one road in or out. Lena, a fair-skinned blue-eyed teenage girl rejects the aboriginal blood of her mother for the blood of her Irish father. Lena has moulded a tough exterior to survive the abusive world that surrounds her. Finally, after being pushed too far, she escapes on a bus to Sydney in search of her father... In a minimum security prison in western New South Wales, Vaughn, a teenage indigenous boy, spends all of his time in a plantation pine forest. Years of incarceration have moulded a tough exterior and separated him from any love. The dark colour of his skin is his pride and source of anger towards a society that has forgotten him. Unsure of his feelings in the darkness of early morning, Vaughn escapes in a race with his own destiny. The two find themselves alone, with no money, and no means of transportation. Over a period of 24 hours, these two hardened souls come together and hitchhike on a lone highway to Sydney where they unwillingly discover their self-identity and inner feelings. Lena slowly lifts her hardened shell to the person who represents the life she has run away from. And Vaughn lowers his defences to a person who seemingly represents the society that rejects him.
Ivan Sen
Born in Nambour, Queensland, Australia in 1971, Ivan Sen trained as a photographer but decided to take up filmmaking instead, first attending the Academy of Film and Television in Brisbane, then studying direction at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. He directed several short films and documentaries before making his feature debut with BENEATH CLOUDS. They include: Unheard Colours (1994), Warm Strangers (1996), Shifting Shelter (1996), The Journey (1997), Tears (1998), Dust (1999) and Shifting Shelter II (2000).
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