Buoyancy | Feature Film
Writer & Director: Rodd Rathjen
Produced by: Causeway Films
Sam Jennings, Kristina Ceyton & Rita Walsh
Executive Producers: Jeff Harrison, Kate Kennedy
Bryce Menzies, Jonathan Page, Michele Turnure-Solleo
DP: Michael Latham
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and
enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured
and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only
hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Winner - Best Indie Feature - AACTA 2019
Winner - Best Youth Feature - Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2019
Winner - Panorama Ecumenical Prize - Berlin International Film Festival
Nominated - GWFF Best First Feature and Berlinale Amnesty Award
Buoyancy is also the Australian submission for
Best International Feature Film at the 2020 Academy Awards