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Rodd Rathjen

Australian writer/director Rodd Rathjen is a Victoria College graduate. His short film Tau Seru, shot in India, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, as part of Critics Week 2013 and won the Best Australian Short prize at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2013. Buoyancy is his debut feature film.

Filmography

2010 The Stranger (Short)
2013 Tau Seru (Short)
2015 Sweat (Short)
2019 Buoyancy

Buoyancy

Buoyancy

Deep in rural Cambodia, a fourteen-year-old boy named Chakra works in the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a broker who promises to get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling anyone, he travels to Bangkok to make his fortune. After a grueling journey across the border, he realizes the bitter truth. He and his fellow Cambodian travelers are enslaved on a fishing trawler. As life becomes endless torture, Chakra comes to the conclusion that his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
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Direction: Rodd Rathjen
Script: Rodd Rathjen
Cinematography: Michael Latham
Editing: Graeme Pereira
Sound: Dane Cody, Sam Petty
Music: Lawrence English
Actors: Sarm Heng, Thanawut Kasro, Mony Ros
Production: Causeway Films
Producer/Producers: Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, Rita Walsh
Co-producer/Co-producers: Steven McKinnon
Costumes: Kanhchana Samrith
Executive producer: Jeff Harrison, Kate Kennedy, Bryce Menzies, Jonathan Page, Michele Turnure-Salleo, Alicia Brown, Jonathan Duffy, Paula Smith Arrigoni, Rithy Panh
Make Up: Rachana Boun
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Australia
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 93΄
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Awards/Distinctions: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Panorama) – Berlin IFF 2019