UPDATE: Director Jane Campion has been awarded the Silver Lion for Best Director for The Power of the Dog at the Venice Film Festival. It is the first Netflix Original to win a prize at the festival, in a year where their inclusion has been hotly contested.
The Power of the Dog is an official Australian-New Zealand co-production. The whole project is an exemplary version of a global picture, a psychodrama set in 1920’s Montana from a novel by US writer and Western specialist Thomas Savage, with a UK broadcaster, a UK-Australian lead production company, a NZ director with strong Australian affinities, and nightmarish lead characters from the UK and the US.
