The Aussie dream team discusses the spiritual subtext of their Un Certain Regard title 'The New Boy,' why the film was made in part 'out of anger' and the 'glamour and brutality' of Cannes.
“I had been getting in trouble back home in Alice Springs [a small city in Australia’s Northern Territory] and it was what she thought I needed to sort me out,” says Thornton. “I had never been inside a church before. I walked into the church building for the first time and saw this guy being tortured on a big wooden cross and it freaked me out.”
Thornton revisited and rewrote the script countless times over the years, and with the assistance of his longtime producer and collaborator, Kath Shelper, the project received development funding from Screen Australia’s First Nations Department , as far back as 2005. “It’s just been one of those scripts that we both were really connected to,” says Shelper. “Sometimes you develop things and then you lose a passion for them — they fall by the wayside, or go in the bottom drawer for a bit. But this script was one of those that neither of us could let go of.”is set in a remote mission for Aboriginal children that is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen (
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