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The Six Dollar Fifty Man
Short Film (Full Length) – 2009
If you can work with a child for a week, eight hours a day, then you can work with anyone —we’re going to work with magpies in our next film!– Co-director Louis Sutherland, in an Idealog interview, muses on working with children and animals
It’s a great moment when you get sucked into the gravitational pull of the world’s biggest film festival ... to find out our little tales from our wild west coast can bat with the best international offerings.– Co-director Louis Sutherland on attending the Cannes Film Festival, Take magazine, Winter 2009, page 3
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