Connor Smith
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AFIN 2026 award 
Receiving the award at AFIN 2026 
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At the 2026 Gold Coast Film Festival 
Acceptance speech at 2026 Gold Coast Film Festival
AFIN recognition
From the Judges, on A Boy And His Pub (2026)
From the Judges, on A Boy And His Pub
The dialogue lands with real Australian specificity, funny and precise, with every character carrying a distinct rhythm. A regional pub becomes a whole ecosystem here, a childhood lived inside an adult world of work, family grief and schoolyard bravado, and the writing gives that world genuine texture. The panel responded to a clear emotional centre, a protagonist whose wants and needs pull against each other, and a thematic handling of what it means to be a man that never turns preachy.
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