High Ground, Nitram take top gongs at the FCCA awards

It's not often you see a draw in film awards, but the Film Critic's Circle of Australia reached a split decision on this year's Best Director.
An indigenous man with white paint on his face looks at the camera

The winners of the 2021 Film Critic’s Circle of Australia awards have been announced, and two films have absolutely swept the board.

Taking home Best Film was High Ground, a story of a WWI soldier-turned-policeman whose botched raid leads to the massacre of an Indigenous community.

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Silvi Vann-Wall is a journalist, podcaster, and filmmaker. They joined ScreenHub as Film Content Lead in 2022. Twitter: @SilviReports