Only The Brave

In the distance the petro-chemical factory belches poison into the night air and the midnight train screams through on its way to somewhere else. Alongside the track, Alex and Vicki are running and no-one is going to catch them now. This is a story about growing up – about dreams, reality and survival. Alex and Vicki are wild girls living on the edge: setting fire to hedges, smoking dope, hanging out at the old abandoned house. But they share a dream: to leave school and get out of this dead-end place. They want to go north and find Alex’s mother and if she’s still singing the clubs, maybe she will let Vicki sing with her.
But the dream means different things to each dreamer and soon the rifts appear and begin to tear things apart. This is a tough and moving film about two Greek/Australian girls growing up on Melbourne’s outer western edge. It’s about a journey that’s made by only the brave.

Format: Feature
Genre: Drama
Length: 61 mins
Producer: Twenty 20 Productions
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Writers: Ana Kokkinos, Mira Robertson
Investors: The Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria.
Sales/Distribution: Rights held by Twenty 20 Productions, distribution rights currently available
Awards/Festivals: Winner Grand Prix for Best Film Melbourne International Film Festival 1994; Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Film Melbourne International Film Festival 1994; 1994 Human Rights Ward for Film, The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; Best Fiction Film Dendy Awards for Short Films 1994 Sydney Film Festival; Winner Australian Film Institute Awards 1994 for Best Short Fiction, Best Original Screenplay, Open Craft Performance Award for Elena Mandalis; Winner, Best Australian Short Film, Film Critics Circle of Australia; Frameline San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature Film 1994; Women’s Sufferage Centenary Awards Frames Festival of Film and Video, Adelaide 1994; Invited to Goteborg International Film Festival 1995; Invited to London International Film Festival 1994; Invited Thessaloniki Film Festival 1994; Invited Vancouver International Film Festival 1994; Selected Mostra International Film Festival 1994; Selected Toronto International Film Festival 1994; Selected Vancouver International Film Festival.
Cast: Elena Mandalis, Dora Kaskanis

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