this year.

I intended to do this many months ago. It was July 23rd, 2007 and I was walking around Brisbane looking for something to do when I passed a movie theatre called Dendy Cinemas, that reminded me of the Princess Cinema in Waterloo, Ontario. One of the movies showing that evening was an Australian film titled Lucky Miles, a film about Iraqi and Cambodian refugees who are dropped on a remote section of Western Australia by an Indonesian fishing boat and told that a bus just over the sand dune would take them to Perth. The eclectic group of men each have a different reason for coming to Australia. There is no bus, not even a road, over the sand dune, and the movie unfolds in a comedic tragedy as the men wander the Australian Outback avoiding capture and seeking their salvations. The movie depicts visually the Australia most people envision when they hear the countries name in saturated blues, browns and greens. The film is visually stunning to say the least.

I mention this today because it is the opening night film at the OzFilm Australian Film Weekend in Toronto, that is running February 22-24 at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre. I had saved the flyer from the Dandy in Brisbane with the intention of writing about the film as soon as I had finished documenting my travels, but as things go sometimes, the flyer got swept under the bed.