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Kim Farrant is a director best known for 'Strangerland', a feature starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving. Her other directing work includes the action procedural 'Rush' (Endemol/Ten), short films 'Between Me' and 'Bombshell' (2010 Melbourne International Queer Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short Film, 2010 Melbourne International Queer Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Australian Short Queer Film and 2009 OutLook Audience Award for Best LGBT Short Film, Cork Film Festival). She also directed the television documentary series 'The Secret Side of Me' (SBS) as well as 'Insight - Out of the Saddle'. Kim's documentary feature 'Naked on the Inside' was a finalist at the Sydney Film Festival and was nominated for the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for Best Documentary. Kim's short films have screened worldwide at festivals including Cannes; London; Cork; Bilboa; Film de Femmes, NYU International Student Film Festival; Destination Film Festival; St. Kilda Film Festival; and both Sydney and Melbourne Fringe Film Festivals. Her short film Sammy Blue was a finalist at the IF Awards in 2000 and placed second at Festival Internazionale Cinema Della Donne in Turin, Italy. Kim began her career as an actor, training at the American New Theatre in LA with acting coach Eric Morris then studied The Journey at the Actors Centre in Sydney Australia. She has trained with NYC acting coach Susan Batson. She then went on to do screen-writing at the University of New South Wales before graduating with a Masters with Honours in Directing from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
