Project Description
Origin: Noongar Nation
Logline: MIRO is a World War ll Australian Aboriginal Western.
Synopsis: When MIRO returns home at the end of WWll he finds his land taken, his people gone, his daughter stolen and his service record treated with contempt – but the New Guinea battlefield has taught him how to fight and he sets out to reunite his family waging his own form of justice.
Project Details
Director: Victoria Wharfe McIntyre
Stars: Mark Coles Smith, Dean Kyrwood, Alexis Lane
Producer: Fran Dobbie
Release date: 2016
Awards
MIRO did exceptionally well at the 2017 Veterans
Film Festival and won the following awards;
- Winner Best Australian Film
- Winner Best Music
- Winner Best Actor – Mark Coles Smith
Nominations
We are proud to announce that MIRO has been nominated
for the following awards;
- 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival – Best Short Film
- 2017 GI Film Festival – Best Short Film
- 2017 AACTA Awards – Best Short Fiction Film
- 2018 Flickerfest International Short Film Festival – Short films category
