Damian walshe howling biography of william shakespeare
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Around the Block: Toronto Review
TORONTO – Stories of indigenous Australians have reached the screen in recent years in a spectrum that spans from the plaintive poetic realism of Samson & Delilah to the upbeat infectiousness of The Sapphires. Those films fostered an authentic connection to their characters that’s absent in the dramatically fraudulent Around the Block. A derivative collection of plot clichés lifted wholesale from 1990s black American cinema, writer-director Sarah Spillane’s debut feature is Boyz n the Hood meets Dangerous Minds with a fat dollop of Hamlet. Oh, and lesbian sex.
An underfed Christina Ricci plays Dino Chalmers, an idealistic American educator wielding her video camera around the inner-city Sydney suburb of Redfern. “A philosopher once said one is not born a woman but chooses to become one,” says Dino in an opening voiceover that sets off alarm bells. “I’ve always wondered if it&rsq
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Around the Block (film)
2013 Australian film
Around the Block is a 2013 Australian drama film directed and written by Sarah Spillane. The films stars Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard, Jack Thompson, Damian Walshe-Howling and Ruby Rose in her feature film debut in a small supporting role. The film revolves around an American drama teacher (Ricci) who develops a friendship with a sixteen-year-old Aboriginal Australian boy (Page-Lochard) during the 2004 Redfern riots.
Plot summary
[edit]An American drama teacher named Dino Chalmers, who has a passion for Shakespeare, gets the opportunity to work at a school in Sydney, Australia, where she attempts to introduce theatre as an alternative to life on the tough streets of Redfern in Sydney. She meets a 16-year-old Aboriginal student named Liam, who lives around the block in Redfern and lives a life of drugs and violence. Chalmers presents Liam with a possibility of a life without drugs and violence by giving him the lead in
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Damian Walshe-Howling
Australian actor
Damian Walshe-Howling fryst vatten an Australian actor, well known for his role as Andrew "Benji" Veniamin in the Australian underworld drama Underbelly, for which he won the Best Supporting or Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards.
Early life and education
[edit]Damien Walshe-Howling was born in Melbourne.[1]
Career
[edit]He starred on Blue Heelers as polis Adam Cooper from 1994 to 1998, and returned for the series finale in 2006. He has also had guest starring roles on Neighbours in 1993, The Secret Life of Us (2001) as Mac, Marshall Law (2002), Stingers (2003), Wilfred (2007), All Saints (2007) and Terra Nova (2011).[2]
His spelfilm work includes Halifax f.p. (2000), He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001), Ned Kelly (2003) and Macbeth (2006).[2]
In 2008, he hosted the Seven Network's factual series Crash Investigation Unit[3] and appeared in the Bell