2020
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Judas Collar
Judas Collar
BLOCK B
THEME: Around the World
THURSDAY | 7 - 9 PM
Narrative | 2018 | 15 min. 00 sec.
Official Selection
Suggested Rating | PG-13
Country | Australia
Language | English
Producer | Brooke Tia Silcox
Director | Alison James
Writer | Alison James
Editor | Lawrie Silvestrin
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[Sydney Film Festival • Austin Film Festival • St. Kilda Film Festival • Heart of Gold Film Festival • Stellar Film Festival • Cape Animal Film Festival • Down Under Berline • Ozsnax Awards • Melbourne International Film Festival • FLickerfest • Interfilm Film Festival • Brooklyn Film Festival • Indy Shorts • Show Me Shorts • Doker Festival • Dumbo Film Festival • Dallas Film Festival • Perth International Arts Festival • Revelation Film Festival • Cinefest Oz • Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival • Astro Rocks Film Festival • Short & Sweet Film Festival • Reel Good Film Festival • Australian Embassy to Russia Screenings • Castlemaine Film Festival •The Valley Film Festival • Oxaca Film Festival • Aesthetica Short Film Festival • Vision Splended Outdoor Film Festival • La Femme Film Festival • Ojay Film Festival • Northern Lights Film Festival • Australian Short Film Today]
In outback Australia a wild camel is captured and fitted with a tracking device known as a Judas Collar. Based on a real life practice, Judas Collar is a scripted, no-dialogue, live action short that explores the story of a camel used to betray her kind.
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Eligible for Specialty Award:​
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Woman to Watch
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Alison James is an award winning director and writer from Perth, Western Australia.
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Judas Collar is Alison’s most ambitious film to date, following up on two performance based dramatic shorts, You Have Blue Eyes – which recently screened at an Australians in Film showcase in Los Angeles and Sentence which she filmed in West Australia’s only juvenile prison.
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Alison has transitioned from factual into scripted after exploring complex ideas and characters in television documentaries over the last decade. She has directed on fifty hours of factual television, working for national and international broadcasters Discovery, National Geographic, ABC, SBS, ITV, BBC, PBS, S4C, 7mate, Sky TV, TV NZ, Arte and The History Channel.
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Working across a variety of documentary formats, Alison has gained privileged access into unique subcultures and nurtured a passion for human complexities without judgment.
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Highlights include spending countless hours with Indigenous Elders, oil and gas workers, multi-millionaire entrepreneurs, people with intellectual disabilities, Nobel winning scientists, migrants, refugees, prisoners and survivors of terrorism and war.
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Most recently Alison was Series Director for the eight-part Railroad Australia (Discovery) following the men and women who run Australia’s vast rail network. Prior to that she was a director on twenty-four episodes of the popular Outback Truckers (Discovery) filming in some of Australia’s most inhospitable and remote areas with some of Australia’s toughest truck drivers.
Alison was field director for the critically acclaimed The DreamHouse (ABC) following three young housemates living with intellectual disabilities. She also co-series directed BoomTown (ABC), examining a year in the lives of seven high-profile multi-millionaire entrepreneurs in Perth. Alison’s series directing debut was the heart-warming Harvest (SBS), tracking the evolution of a community garden at the notorious ‘Suicide Towers’ in Perth.
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Alison studied filmmaking and psychology at Curtin University and is a recipient of the prestigious West Australian Young Filmmaker of the Year Award.
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RELATED LINKS
Website | https://judascollar.com
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/judascollar
IMDB | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8005618/
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/judascollar/
Twitter | https://twitter.com/judascollar
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