William McInnes and Monic Hendri

John Woldring wakes one morning to find a young woman stumbling semi-consciously towards his farmhouse. She is dark (Middle Eastern perhaps) and has no English. There is great beauty hidden beneath the blood and bruises. She has obviously run from something truly terrible. But John Woldring doesn’t call the police. He will handle this his own way. Has she landed in a sanctuary or another nightmare? Starring William McInnes (LOOK BOTH WAYS and Holland’s Monic Hendrickx and written and directed by Peter Duncan UNFINISHED SKY is a superbly layered love story for grown ups set against the rugged and tense beauty of rural Queensland.

Dir: Peter Duncan | Prod: Cathy Overett, Anton Smit | Scr: Peter Duncan| Cast : William McInnes, Monic Hendrickx, Christopher Sommers, David Field | 2007, 91 min, rated M

The Dungog Film Festival in 2008 is proud to present, in association with the National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA), a newly rediscovered print of Australia’s earliest surviving sound film – 10 minutes of coverage of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York at Farm Cove, Sydney, in March 1927. The film, held for many years by the UK’s National Film & TV Archive, was only recently repatriated to Australia. The film was shot by the Australian branch of De Forest Phonofilms, a US-based company who had introduced a sound-on-film recording process in 1923, four years before the American feature The Jazz Singer (1927). The newreel will be introduced by Graham Shirley, NFSA’s Senior Curator of Moving Image. 1927, 10 mins

Nathan and Dean are good mates. They spend their days fishing, rabbiting and dreaming of becoming wealthy professional rugby league players. The events of one weekend put their friendship in jeopardy as they are presented with different choices.
Dir: Simon Blyth | Scr: Simon Blyth, Jessica Halloran | Prod: Monique de Groot | 2008, 13 min