Title | DENG ADUT |
Brand | WSU |
Product / Service | UNIVERSITY |
Category | A01. Direction |
Entrant | FINCH Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Idea Creation | FINCH Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Idea Creation 2 | VCD + WE.COLLECTIVE Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Production | FINCH Sydney, AUSTRALIA |
Name | Company | Position |
---|---|---|
Camilla Mazzaferro | FINCH | Producer |
Corey Esse | FINCH | Managing Director / Executive Producer |
Ari Wegner | Freelance | Director Of Photography |
George Betsis | VCD + We. | Executive Creative Director |
Angelo Kourtis | Western Sydney University | Vice president (People and Advancement) |
Jae Morrison | FINCH | Director / Creative Writer |
Mandy Payne | VCD + We. | Agency Prodcuer |
Rob Galluzzo | FINCH | Founder/ Executive Producer |
Annie Beauchamp | Freelance | Art Director |
Brenda Hayward | Freelance | Wardrobe |
Jo Scott | The Butchery | Editor |
FINCH VFX | FINCH VFX | Visual Effects |
Andy Timms | FINCH VFX | Lead Flame Artist |
Stuart Bedford | FINCH VFX | Flame Artist |
Pen Cooper | The Coopers Sound Design | Sound Design |
Scott Christensen | Western Sydney University | Director/Office of Marketing & Communication |
Tracy Richardson | Western Sydney University | Interim Director/ Marketing and Student Recruiment |
Tanja Perl | VCD + We. | Agency Producer |
Suraj Nayak | FINCH VFX | 3D |
Pete Richie | Freelance | Colourist |
Hannah Walker | FINCH VFX | VFX Producer |
Jarryd James | Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd | Music Composer |
For Western Sydney University, the Region, Alumni and Students, there exists an unlimited world of opportunity. A world without boundaries, full of endless possibilities. Unlimited celebrates the amazing, untold Western Sydney University Alumni stories by chronicling their rise and rise to successful lives and careers. They are stories of unlocking human potential - triumph against the odds; winning when the mainstream says it’s impossible; victory that is sweeter because it’s tougher to achieve. And they are real. From a child soldier in the Sudanese Civil war to becoming a leading member of the Sudanese community and refugee lawyer in the suburbs of Western Sydney, Deng Adut's story is a phenomenal achievement of one man's dedication to helping others less fortunate in the face of great adversity.
This is the true story of Deng Adut, a child soldier who became a refugee lawyer. Deng plays himself. The Sudanese people in the film are also non-actors, many also refugees, and proud members of Deng’s local community who turned up in support of him. After a lengthy interview with Deng, the Director wrote the script. The narrative and scenes of war were shot in a quarry in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. The pyrotechnics were in-camera. The backgrounds we created from archival news footage from the South Sudan conflict. The rest of the story was shot on-location around Western Sydney and at the University, with real students and lecturers.