BUOYANCY
“In this sobering, moving drama, a Cambodian teenager runs away from home and is sold into slavery on a Thai fishing boat.”
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY FERACIOUS ENTERTAINMENT
LOGLINE
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and killed around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
KEY CREDITS
Screenwriter/Director - Rodd Rathjen
Producers - Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, Rita Walsh (Causeway Films)
Cast - Sarm Heng, Thanawut Kasro, Ros Mony
FILM FESTIVALS
Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) World Premiere (2019), Melbourne International Film Festival (2019), International Film Festival and Awards Macau (2019) amongst others.
AWARDS
December 2019 - WINNER - BEST ACTOR (INTERNATIONAL COMP) & MACAU AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - International Film Festival and Awards Macau
December 2019 - WINNER - BEST INDIE FILM - Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
November 2019 - WINNER - BEST YOUTH FILM - Asia Pacific Screen Awards
February 2019 - WINNER - ECUMENICAL JURY PRIZE - Berlin International Film Festival - Panorama