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Warwick Thornton (born 23 July, 1970; Alice Springs) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His debut feature film Samson and Delilah won the Caméra d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the award for Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. He also won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Film in 2017 for Sweet Country.
Thornton is a Kaytetye man born and raised in Alice Springs. His mother Freda Glynn co-founded and was the first director of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) and was the director of Imparja Television for its first 10 years. At 13, Thornton was sent to school in Australia's only monastic town, New Norcia, Western Australia, although he later declared he became angry with Christianity and did not consider himself religious. He graduated in cinematography from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
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Total trailers found: 60
01 November 2002
A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.
01 August 2015
They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember.
03 March 2003
Two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living in Alice Springs.
08 December 2023
When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.
09 June 2019
When two First World War enemy soldiers become stranded in no man’s land, an unlikely bond is formed.
01 January 1998
An old woman, overseeing her granddaughter making some damper, is asked how she came to be betrothed or “promised” at a young age.
10 February 2015
Fresh out of the academy, White Cop experiences his first taste of Aboriginal community life, as Black Cop puts him to the test.
01 January 1996
Paddy finds there are two separate laws, the white and the black.
30 April 2026
1930s Australia, the colonial frontier: two swaggering outlaws roll into a mining town and unleash a wave of cruelty, leading three kids to break free from their white masters and set off across the 'sweet country' of central Australia in search of a safe home.
02 June 2011
'Here I Am' is driven by three generations of Aboriginal women - Karen Lee Burden, her mother Lois and her daughter Rosie.
06 July 2023
In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Aboriginal children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen.
25 January 2018
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.
25 September 2013
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton.
21 August 2025
Ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, becomes stranded in an Outback town outside Alice Springs. There, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie.
09 May 2012
A young Aboriginal oyster farmer meets an aerial artist when the circus comes to town and must decide whether he will follow in his family footsteps or follow his love.
15 September 2015
In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
08 August 2012
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
20 November 2014
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods.
01 May 2000
WILLIGAN'S FITZROY takes us to the small Aboriginal community of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia.
15 August 2002
Patricia Uberoi, an Australian woman, married an Indian professor in the 60s and moved to his home in New Delhi.
11 December 1999
Over 30,000 bikers turned up in 1998 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Stone and recreate the funeral scene.
01 May 2008
1910 Swedish scientist, Eric Mjoberg, led an expedition to Australia. DARK SCIENCE travels in Mjoberg's footsteps to visit the communities he robbed, and gives a contemporary Indigenous perspective for return of the remains and artifacts.
01 May 2005
A woman living in a deserted mining camp might not be the only person hiding out there.
01 May 2007
Tnorala is the Aboriginal name for Gosse's Bluff, a dramatic meteorite impact crater set in a vast plain 175km west of Alice Springs.
01 May 2005
This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.
03 May 2010
We meet Warumungu elder Leslie Foster, senior Traditional Owner of country around this famous phenomenon south of Tennant Creek in Central Australia.
01 May 2002
A David and Goliath story of a small Aboriginal community in Australia and their successful struggle to stop uranium mining on their land.
01 May 2007
Burning Daylight is a dance/film project. The performance is set from late one night until dawn in a transit zone outside a notorious pub on a Broome-style Karaoke night.
26 February 2005
54 years after being stolen from her traditional Aboriginal family under Australian Government policy, Zita Wallace is coming home.
01 May 2012
Jealousy is a curse. She's her own worse enemy, jealous, impulsive, sabotages herself, awake or asleep, in snagging her man, who is a reluctant player when it comes to messing with his little piece of paradise.
01 May 2004
This moving documentary is a record of a few hours in the life of a small 7 year old boy, Ricco, from Hidden Valley, one of the many town camps on the outskirts of Alice Springs.
12 February 2001
With their ancient knowledge, traditional healers play a vital role in Aboriginal communities. This film follows three Ngangkari as they go about their impressive work, and shows how traditional methods can complement Western medical practices.
03 May 2005
Jessie Bartlett a shy 18 year old girl, learns the lores of love from her mischievous Pintubi grandmothers, Mijili, Nancy and Kumanjayi.
01 May 2008
13 short films showcasing indigenous filmmakers from around Australia.
16 June 2020
Meth Kelly explores how Australia’s colonial frontier narrative has been shaped by the imaginary heroic actions of the cult figure Ned Kelly.
01 May 1998
MARLUKU WIRLINYI is a tale of kangaroo hunting that weaves its way through Dreamtime, to the present and back again.
07 May 2009
Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert.
13 August 2017
A Japanese tourist enjoying a relaxed car journey through the beauty and tranquility of the Australian desert collides with a violent moment in time.
01 January 2002
15-year-old Marnie, Handycam at her side, captures a day in the life of her housing project.
21 May 2011
Jack means well, but sometimes good intentions have horrible consequences.
10 August 1998
When eldest sister Cressy, middle daughter Mae and the young Nona are reunited for the first time in years it doesn’t take long for the sparks to fly.
02 May 2008
Keao follows a young woman's journey of self-actualization through the use of ancient cultural practices.
27 November 2013
Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia.
21 January 2005
An Australian Aboriginal DJ realizes that his job at the country radio station is about more than just playing music.
01 May 1995
A sexually repressed but inquisitive wife stumbles across an interactive pornographic computer program when she borrows her workmates computer.
01 May 2004
This documentary focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development.
07 June 2005
In these fast and modern times, the Numurindi people are still guided by the seasons and stories of the Dreamtime.
05 May 2007
Nana’s granddaughter thinks Nana’s pretty special. She loves her Nana because she helps the old people, she’s a good painter and other people love her too.
12 June 2000
Buried Country was a cross-media juggernaut – book, film, CD – that first came out in 2000. The y
07 June 2017
Filmmaker Warwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this fun and thought provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape.
01 January 2010
This impassioned documentary was rejected for broadcast by ABC TV as "biased" and lacking "balance". John Howard introduced the Intervention legislation in July 2007.
10 October 1998
This short romantic drama from Erica Glynn uses the power of silence to communicate the tension between two characters who have been promised to each other.
01 January 2003
In 1955, filmmaker Chauvel debuted Jedda. His star was a young Arrernte woman from Alice Springs named Ngarla Kunoth, or Rosalie.
