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Look Both Ways
2005

Look Both Ways

Director

Sarah Watt

Runtime

90

The first feature to be funded through AFFIF, Look Both Ways follows four people over one weekend, as they each grapple with messy, unexpected, life-changing news. They wonder whether the hand that fate has dealt them is deserved, whether they have an entitlement to happiness.

Awards:

  • Queensland Literary Awards: 2004 Best Film Script

  • Discovery Award: Toronto Film Festival 2005

  • FIPRESCI Award: Brisbane film Festival 2005

AFI Awards, 2005:

  • Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Tony Hayes)

Film Critics Circle awards, 2005:

  • Best Film, Director, Actor (William McInnes), Screenplay, Editing

IF Awards, 2005:

  • Best Director, Screenplay, Editing

Winner:

  • Audience Award: Adelaide Film Festival, 2005

  • Audience Award: Brisbane Film Festival, 2005

  • Audience Award: Australian Film Festival, London 2006

  • Audience Award: International Women's Film Festival Dortmund in Cologne 2006

  • Best Screenplay: Mar del Plata Film Festival, 2006

  • Best Actress (Justine Clarke): Mar del Plata Film Festival, 2006

  • Critics Award: Rotterdam Film Festival 2006

  • Critics Award: NatFilm Festival (Denmark) 2006

  • Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: San Francisco Film Festival 2006

  • Best Actress (Justine Clarke): Vladivostock Film Festival, 2006

Nominated:

  • European Film Academy: Non-European Film Award category

Festivals: Adelaide FF 2007; Sydney FF 2007; Berkshire International FF 2007 (USA); Melbourne FF 07; Sheffield Doc/Fest 07; Global Doc Days Austin Texas 08

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