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Gabrielle Brady
AU DE UK 2018 53' 93'
⚬ Human Interest ⚬ Human Rights
Christmas Island; in the middle of the Indian Ocean, 50 million red crabs make their ancient annual voyage from the jungle to the oceans edge. While thousands of asylum seekers are detained indefinitely in a high security facility. Poh Lin, a trauma counsellor living on the Island of Hungry Ghosts, bears witness to the decline of those being detained.
Director | Gabrielle Brady |
Producer | Alexander Wadouh |
Co-Producers | Samm Haillay, Alex Kelly, Gizem Acarla |
Executive Producers | Sarah Perks, Lizzie Francke |
Production Company | Chromosom Film |
Co-Production Companies | Third Films, Various Films, Echotango |
Cinematography | Michael Latham |
Editor | Katharina Fiedler |
Music | Aaron Cupples |
Sound | Leo Dolgan |
Best Documentary Feature | Tribeca 2018 |
Buyens-Chagoll Award | Visions du Réel 2018 |
Best Documentary Film | Valletta Film Festival 2018 |
Special Mention | Edinburgh IFF 2018 |
Best Documentary | Crested Butte FF 2018 |
Flinders University Feature Documentary Award | Adelaide FF 2018 |
Prix SMART | Festival des Libertés 2018 |
Grand Jury Prize for the International Competition | Mumbai FF 2018 |
Amsterdam Human Rights Award | IDFA 2018 |
Best Documentary | SAE ATOM Awards 2018 |
Prix spécial du Jury | FIFO Tahiti 2019 |
Special Mention from the Movies That Matter Jury | ZagrebDox 2019 |
Best Director - Documentary, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Design, Best Documentary | Ozflix Independent Film Awards 2019 |
Panorama Price | Festival FReDD 2019 |
Best Documentary | Sole Luna Doc Film Festival 2019 |
Audience Prize | Sole Luna Doc Film Festival 2019 |
Best Film | Down Under Berlin FF 2019 |
Best Documentary | Darwin International Film Festival 2018 |
Mercurius Prize | Human Rights Film Festival Zürich 2018 |
Human Rights Award | Move it! Dresden 2019 |
Tribeca FF 2018 |
Visions du Réel 2018 |
DocAviv 2018 |
Edinburgh FF 2018 |
New Zealand FF 2018 |
Melbourne IFF 2018 |
DOK Leipzig 2018 |
Valladolid IFF 2018 |
Montreal International Documentary Festival 2018 |
Jio Mami Mumbai IFF 2018 |
Makedox 2018 |
Athens IFF 2018 |
Festival des Libertés 2018 |
Viennale 2018 |
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival 2018 |
IDFA 2018 |
Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2018 |
One World Prague 2019 |
Göteborg IFF 2019 |
DOK.fest München 2019 |
True/False Film Festival 2019 |
Moscow IFF 2019 |
| Runtimes | 53' 93' |
| Spoken Languages | English, French, Farsi, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese |
| Production Countries | Australia, Germany, UK |
Gabrielle Brady (1984) is an Australian filmmaker who makes documentary and hybrid films. Gabrielle studied Documentary Direction at the Cuban international film school (EICTV). Gabrielle has lived nomadically for the past ten years, traveling between Cuba, Mongolia, Indonesia, the Australian central desert and Europe. Her short film ISLAND was commissioned as part of the Guardian documentary series and premiered at Sheffield festival 2017. ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS is her first feature film.
