BROKEN LINE NORTH
2019 / DRAMA / ENGLISH + LAO / 16’25”
Two broken people – a Lao-Australian woman and a teenage hitchhiker – must navigate grief, isolation and an unlikely connection forged over one night in a roadside motel.
Written & Directed by Sunday Emerson Gullifer
Produced by Bethany Bruce
Cinematographer Jack McAvoy
Production & Costume Designer Laura Murray
Editor Andrew Kristiaman
Music by Kelly Ryall
Sound Designer Thom Kellar
Casting Director Stevie Ray CGA
Starring Alice Keohavong (The Rocket) & Kai Lewins (Apple TV+’s Roar, Netflix’s Surviving Summer)
FESTIVALS
Sydney Film Festival 2019 (World Premiere)
Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2020
St Kilda Film Festival 2020
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2020
AWARDS
Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship 2018
Sunday Emerson Gullifer was the grateful winner of the 2018 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, presented by Sydney Film Festival. The Fellowship is the largest cash fellowship for short film in Australia, with four Fellowship winners receiving $50,000 each to produce their short film in 2018 and premiere them at the 66th Sydney Film Festival in 2019.
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Key art designed by Jeremy Saunders
“With its undertow of melancholy and its understated beauty, ‘Broken Line North’ is an elegantly crafted, beautifully subtle meditation on grief, loss and connection, with an intuitive understanding of how crisis can break us open.”
“Broken Line North manages to do everything it sets out to do with a decent amount of efficiency and style. That being said, it also manages to handle its subject matter with a commendable amount of respect and compassion. For the filmmakers, both Gullifer and McAvoy, have shown that they might have the knack for perfection when it comes to storytelling.”