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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…

UTA has brought on director, screenwriter and cinematographer Warwick Thornton, whose western drama, Sweet Country, starring Sam Neill and Bryan Brown,  nabbed the Platform Prize at the Toronto Film Festival, just after he was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The period film is about an…