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Chris Anastassiades. Writer: High Ground. Chris Anastassiades is known for High Ground (2020), Yolngu Boy (2001) and Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji (2007).
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Liked by Chris Anastassiades. Been writing professionally for 30 years. Worked in TV and film. Taught a bunch of very clever folk at RMIT for a while. Got an IMDB page to remind me of every mistake I ever made. · Experience: Self Employed · Location: Oakleigh · 277 connections on LinkedIn. View Chris Anastassiades’ profile on LinkedIn, a ...
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Chris Anastassiades is a dramatist and script-writer, with extensive experience in television script-writing, particularly comedy and children's television. Anastassiades's earliest television scripts were for Col'n Carpenter (1990-1991), a spin-off from the successful skit-comedy program The Comedy Company .
The film High Ground (2020) directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson and written by Chris Anastassiades, is set in remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory in 1919. It deals with race relations between the Aborigines (specifically the Yolgnu people) and whites from a post-colonial, revisionist perspective that puts racism at the centre of Australian history, depicting frontier wars, massacres, and heroic Aboriginal resistance in the face of overwhelming odds.
Jan 27, 2021 · Johnson and Yolngu Boy screenwriter Chris Anastassiades are quick to upend any notion of a rugged, conciliatory trek, however — the kind where cultural differences conveniently dissolve in the ...
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Chris Anastassiades. Films. 2020. High Ground . Australia . 2020. High Ground . In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ...
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56-58) — Review of High Ground Chris Anastassiades, 2019 single work film/TV Abstract 'High Ground, the long-awaited second feature from Stephen Maxwell Johnson (Yolngu Boy), opens with an extraordinary image: a vista shot of Nimbuwarr, a sacred rock in Arnhem Land, from high above, as a red sun declines behind it and insects buzz on the soundtrack like a piece by Alva Noto. The best drone shot in recent Australian cinema (and Christ knows there’s been enough of them), it’s also the ...
