Black and White (2002 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Black And White


writer = Louis Nowra
starring = Robert Carlyle
Charles Dance
Kerry Fox
David Ngoombujarra
Colin Friels
director = Craig Lahiff
producer = Helen Leake
Nik Powell
editing = Lee Smith
distributor = |New Vision Films released = October 31, 2002(Australia) |w runtime = 99 min. language = English
budget = | music = Cezary Skubiszewski
awards =
imdb_id = 0299547

"Black and White" is a 2002 Australian film, directed by Craig Lahiff and starring Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox, David Ngoombujarra, and Colin Friels.
Louis Nowra wrote the screenplay and Helen Leake and Nik Powell produced the film. The film won an Australian Film Institute award in 2003 for David Ngoombujarra as Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Based on real events, it tells the story of Max Stuart (Ngoombujarra), a young aboriginal man who was sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of a nine year old girl on what was considered questionable evidence. It follows the fight by his lawyers David O'Sullivan (Carlyle) and Helen Devaney (Fox) to save Stuart from execution, as well as Crown Prosecutor, Roderic Chamberlain (Dance) efforts to convict Stuart. Rohan Rivett editor of an Adelaide paper, "The News", and its publisher, Rupert Murdoch (Ben Mendelsohn) also feature as leading the public response in the campaign to save Stuart.

In the final scene of the film, Max Stuart appeared as himself as an older man, driving along a dirt highway near Alice Springs where he now lives, and saying: "Yeah, some people think I'm guilty and some people think I'm not. Some people think Elvis is still alive, but most of us think he's dead and gone."cite web | author=Penelope Debelle
year=2002 | url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/18/1029114051911.html | title=Max Stuart reflects, finds peace | work= | publisher=The Age | accessdate=2006-02-21] The film's producer, Helen Leak has reported that Stuart's response to seeing the film was, "It ain’t half bad, but it’s a long time to wait between smokes!"cite web
author=Ken Inglis interviewed by Terry Lane
year=2002
url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/natint/stories/s662208.htm
title=Transcript of The National Interest: writing history
format=
work=The National Interest
publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio National
accessdate=2006-02-21
accessyear= ]

Awards

In 2003, the film won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actor in Supporting Role.

References

External links

*imdb title|0299547
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=541625;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Black and White at the National Film and Sound Archive]