The Nightingale wins Age Critics Award and MIFF Shorts Awards Announced

Jennifer Kent's bloody revenge tale named Best Australian Feature and short film winners include 'The Egg', 'Passage' and 'Lost Rambos'.
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Baykali Ganambarr in The Nightingale, courtesy of MIFF.

Jennifer Kent’s controversial and brutal follow-up to The Babadook has won The Age Critics Award for best Australian feature (non-documentary) at the 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival. This adds to the film’s other awards which include the Special Jury Prize at Venice 2018, where it premiered and also picked up the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer for actor Baykali Ganambarr.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is the ArtsHub Group's Education and Career Editor. She is a journalist for Screenhub and is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema. She was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates' and has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, will be published by Midnight Sun in 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk