Warwick Thornton’s acclaimed western Sweet Country won six awards at the Australian Academy of Cinema And Television Awards (AACTA) yesterday in Sydney. The haunting tale of an Aboriginal man who is hunted after shooting a white man in self defense scooped best film, best direction, best original screenplay, best…

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has set an April 6 U.S. release date for the award-winning Australian western Sweet Country from director Warwick Thornton. The film will make its initial theater debut in Los Angeles and New York and then roll out to 20 to 30 more screens across the U.S. Sweet Country made its world…

Making Sweet Country, his critically acclaimed Australian Western, Warwick Thornton went in without any preconceptions, wishing to find an organic and unique take on the genre that might fly in the face of what people might expect. “You try and reinvent yourself as a director every time you read a script,” Thornton…

Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired North American rights to the Warwick Thornton-directed Sweet Country. Pic stars Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, Thomas M. Wright, Ewen Leslie, Natassia Gorey-Furber, Gibson John, Matt Day, Anni Finsterer, Treymayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan and Sam Neill. The film won Special Jury Prize after…