The 54th Chicago International Film Festival hosted its Awards Ceremony and taking home the top prize, the Gold Hugo for Best Film, in the International Feature Film Competition, is director Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro
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NAME OF FILM: [CENSORED]
DIRECTOR(S): Sari Braithwaite
STARRING: Sari Braithwaite
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: [CENSORED] (2018) - This unique 63 minute documentary was entirely created using the banned motion picture film footage removed by the censors working at the "Australian Film Censorship Board" located in Sydney Australia, between 1951 and 1978. Melbourne archivist and filmmaker Sari Braithwaite after making her initial short film SMUT HOUNDS (2015) containing seventy-seven seconds of 1960s forbidden celluloid, famously gained unprecedented access to Canberra's World Cinema storage archive of many many thousands of banned movie clip sequences. Film frames that were cut from international/continental films, that were screened very heavily edited with reduced running times, in Australian Cinemas between 1951 and 1978. Cleverly re-edited scenes, there were no obvious signs that image and soundtrack had been removed.