Romanian director Teodora Ana Mihai.s Waiting for August won the best international feature doc prize at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival.
Christopher Houghton.s Sons & Mothers was named best Australian doc with an honourable mention to David Fedele.s The Land Between.
Ghost Train took the prize for best Australian short with an honourable mention for Jilli Rose.s Sticky.
Waiting for August follows Georgiana Halmac, who lives with her six siblings in a social housing block on the outskirts of Bacău, Romania.
Turning 15, she has no time for teenage dreams when her mother Liliana is forced to leave her family to find work in Torino and will not be back until summer.
As the eldest Georgiana is left in charge of her siblings. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, she improvises parenting advice gathered from the television and the occasional phone call from her mother.
The film won the...
Christopher Houghton.s Sons & Mothers was named best Australian doc with an honourable mention to David Fedele.s The Land Between.
Ghost Train took the prize for best Australian short with an honourable mention for Jilli Rose.s Sticky.
Waiting for August follows Georgiana Halmac, who lives with her six siblings in a social housing block on the outskirts of Bacău, Romania.
Turning 15, she has no time for teenage dreams when her mother Liliana is forced to leave her family to find work in Torino and will not be back until summer.
As the eldest Georgiana is left in charge of her siblings. Caught between puberty and responsibilities, she improvises parenting advice gathered from the television and the occasional phone call from her mother.
The film won the...
- 10/21/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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