Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefControversial drama “Nitram” dominated the prizes at the Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (AACTA) film awards on Wednesday.
Leaving little room for celebration of any other achievement in the past year, “Nitram” swept to eight awards.These included the most major prizes — best film, best directing and best original screenplay — as well as all four acting prizes.The film painstakingly depicts the build-up to a real-life mass shooting that took place in Tasmania.
Many people had questioned whether the events were too painful to be retold and whether making a film would make a hero of the perpetrator. “Nitram” deflected those criticisms by spelling the shooter’s name backwards and by avoiding any.
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