Feature Screenplay AFIN 212
BETRAYAL OF THE 36TH LIGHT HORSE: PART 1 RWANDAN MISSION
Written by Phillip Tucker
AFIN 2024 Nominee
- 2024
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Australia - English
- PG
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Synopsis
In 1994, an Australian armoured platoon joined the UN Peacekeeping forces in Rwanda. It was supposed to be a showing of the flag mission. Instead, it turns into a nightmare as the Platoon fights for survival. For their bravery, they are all arrested and transported back to Australia. Home, they are all dishonourably discharged, their Officer in Command jailed, Why?
What makes this one special
- Phillip Tucker has been here beforeAlso in the 2023 programme
- Nominated for Best Feature Screenplay
From the Judges
From the Judges
The storytelling is what drew the panel in, held together by a structure that keeps its ambition legible from scene to scene. This screenplay knows where it is going and takes the time to build the ground beneath each turn, so the shape of the whole reads as clearly as the moments within it. It struck them as confident, well-carried work on the page.
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BETRAYAL OF THE 36TH LIGHT HORSE: PART 1 RWANDAN MISSION was an official Nominee for Best Feature Screenplay at the AFIN International Film Festival 2024, a Top 100 Best Reviewed and IMDb-qualifying festival.
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