Last week we covered The Netherlands submission for the Oscar Foreign Film Race. Today we move rapidly in the southeastern direction for news from Australia: the submission of Ten Canoes. Rolf de Heer's film tells a mythical story about a covetous young man in tribal times. It's the first all indigenous language film to come from Australian. [src]Landmark status like that can be helpful in the foreign film race. Why? Any publicity hook is good when you're competing with 50 other films for attention. You want the committee to be predisposed to thinking about you, curious about you, rooting for you before they embark on their exhaustive screening schedule.
Submissions have also been announced for The Netherlands and Bosnia.
UPDATE: The Foreign Language Oscar Pages @ The Film Experience are now up! They're ready to be filled with gallons of info culled from various news sources and reader contributions.
Thank you to readers A.D., Aldo, Ali, Lyn, Mikkel, Nedim, Ralph, and Yonatan
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