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| BOXING DAY Australia | 2007 R16 violence, offensive language and drug use FILMMAKERS IN PERSON BOXING DAY WORKSHOPS Kindly supported by the Australian High Commission, The New Zealand Film Commission and the South Australian Film Corporation CLICK HERE for Peter Calder's interview with the director of Boxing Day, Kriv Stenders SELECT
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A bridge-building holiday lunch for his teenage foster daughter and her ex-junkie mother is loaded with jeopardy for an ex-con determined to go straight. Compact and powerful, Boxing Day is a low-budget vérité-styled psychodrama devised by director Kriv Stenders in close collaboration with his charismatic hard-man star, real-life ex-con Richard Green. The film’s formal tautness – the afternoon’s events appear to unfold in real time – pushes every tension to exploding point. “Kriv Stenders’ low-budget, digital Australian film Boxing Day reminds jaded viewers of the fundamental strengths of the medium. Though slightly unpolished, Stenders has crafted a gripping domestic drama of ample power... a simple film based on a single nugget of information that’s rich with human truths. It helps a great deal that Green is a ferocious screen presence. Stenders certainly establishes himself as one of Australia’s most prominent digital filmmakers.” — Elizabeth Kerr, Hollywood Reporter
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