... perfectly paced, which keeps you hooked – the narrative keeps moving and the road trip is a genuine journey.

Kintsugi – the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with seams of gold – is symbolic of embracing life’s imperfections, and making something beautiful out of something that is, apparently, destroyed. It’s also the underlying theme in this Australian film about two brothers with a ruptured relationship.

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An Australian road movie that wisely operates beyond such genre simplicities, Henry Boffin‘s Strange Creatures finds organic humour in the tragic circumstances of its two main characters – estranged brothers Nate and Ged Taylor (Riley Nottingham and Johnny Carr, respectively) – as they respect the dying wish of their recently deceased mother.

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From writer and director, Henry Boffin, Strange Creatures is a dramedy in the vein of Nebraska and Little Miss Sunshine; a darkly humorous road trip film about the value of family and the pratfalls of masculinity.

Nate Taylor (Riley Nottingham) hasn’t spoken a word to his brother, Ged (Johnny Carr), in over four years, ever since the fateful night when he was discovered in bed with his older sibling’s fiancé. But when their mother passes away from a sudden aneurysm, the brothers must set aside their differences in order to fulfil their mother’s dying wish: to have her ashes scattered at the old family home in the country town of Narrabri.

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The 34th annual Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) will see filmmakers descend on the red carpet for screenings and events from 14 – 24 November. The program celebrates queer music culture through the provocation: Formative Sound and Vision, and will feature 42 feature films, 18 Australian premieres, 18 Melbourne premieres, 19 documentaries, 11 short film packages and 90 short films held at ACMI, The Capitol, Palace Cinema Como and Cinema Nova.

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Henry Boffin is no stranger to family drama, drawing on his own real-life experiences as inspiration for his debut feature film, Strange Creatures. 

The new dramatic comedy follows two estranged brothers, Ged (Johnny Carr) and Nate (Riley Nottingham) who are forced to reunite to scatter their mother’s ashes in the town where she grew up. 

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Writer-director Henry Boffin’s feature debut  Strange Creatures forces two brothers, one pansexual and one straight, to confront their strained relationship on a road-trip into the Australian countryside.

Boffin has assembled many of the collaborators from his TV sit-com Metro Sexual, including lead actor Riley Nottingham (also a producer on the film) for this domestic drama that lets Nottingham stretch his acting chops as Nate Taylor opposite Johnny Carr (Wellmania, Five Bedrooms) as his gruff brother Ged.

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Now released, the 2024 Program of films and events includes more than 80 feature, documentary and short films, and has a raft of visiting talent.

CinefestOZ CEO Cassandra Jordan said she was delighted at the calibre of talent and fresh new stories and films from Australia, as well as France and New Zealand, at this year’s extended nine-day event.

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The 11th Queer Screen Film Fest will run from:

28th Aug – 1st Sep 2024 In Cinema

2nd Sep – 8th Sep 2024 On Demand

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In its second collaboration with the Marché du Film’s Goes to Cannes showcase strand, Australia’s Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival will unveil four projects and a finished film, all looking for global sales, distribution, top-up financing and festival selection. 

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Thirteen writers have been shortlisted for the Australian Writers’ Guild’s John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing. 

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Henry Boffin’s ‘Strange Creatures’ wraps in Victoria

Henry Boffin’s Strange Creatures, the first feature to be released under Humdrum Comedy’s new drama venture Nottingham Pictures, has completed filming in Victoria.

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Nominees for 55th AWGIEs unveiled as awards return in-person

Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero’s Blaze; Renée Webster’s How To Please A Woman; Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes’ Sissy; and Jub Clerc and Steve Rodgers’ Sweet As will contend for the best original feature prize at this year’s AWGIE Awards.

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Film grad creates industry opportunities for young talent

Successful Griffith Film School alumnus Henry Boffin is paying it forward by creating a series of internships for emerging film talent on his hit Channel Nine series.

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Australian sitcom, “Metro Sexual” has landed multiple streaming arrangements in North America.

It will premiere in the U.S. on Sept. 1 on the free streaming service Crackle, and on Canada’s OUTtvGo and OUTtv’s Apple TV from the same date. It will then play on Prime Channels in Canada.

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Creators and Shapers announced for impact Australia accelerator program

In association with Gentle Giant Media Group and Screen Australia, Impact Australia is an eight week accelerator program that discovers, cultivates and empowers creative storytellers from across Australia.

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