Product Description

Winner of the Cannes Camera d'Or and set against the backdrop of an Australian desert landscape, Samson & Delilah is a captivating teenage love story about finding true love in the contexts of class and aboriginal culture. Everything in Samson and Delilah's indigenous community happens in a cycle; day in and day out nothing changes in their isolated, selectively Westernized neighborhood. When tragedy strikes, Samson and Delilah turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival and discovery. Bound by hunger, rejection, social identity and devotion, the young lovers discover that life outside their community can be cruel and unfair. Still their hearts flourish.

Review

A tender, realistic love story and a lyrical piece of visual art. --Michael Adams, Empire

... an engrossing and touching snapshot of an Australia too often left on the cutting-room floor. --Variety

An inside look at a world rarely, if ever, depicted on the big screen --Screen International

About the Actor

MARISSA GIBSON: Marissa has had small parts in film and television productions as an extra, but this is her first major role. She lives in Alice Springs, where she attends high school and studies her newly favourite subjects English and Drama. She speaks three languages Warlpiri, Luritja and English, and until this year was studying Japanese language too. She put her acting wages towards a school study tour of Japan after the completion of filming. She loves to text-message and eat spring rolls from the Alice Springs Sunday Markets.
ROWAN MCNAMARA: Rowan makes his screen debut in Samson & Delilah. He lives in Hidden Valley on the outskirts of the Alice Springs township. Rowan is Eastern Arrente and is originally from Santa Teresa, an Aboriginal community 80km southeast of Alice. He is a keen AFL footballer, a devoted fan of Essendon Football Club and has travelled Australia playing footy with his school.

About the Director

Warwick Thonton has been waiting patiently for about 20 years to make a feature film since he first started hanging out at CAAMA Radio in Alice Springs in his teens. Warwick was a teenage DJ at CAAMA and he used to watch the video unit vehicle drive off to exotic places and was forced to hear all the stories when they came back. When a media traineeship came up he jumped at the chance and hasn t looked back. He learnt his trade of cinematography on the job and then went to AFTRS film school in Sydney for three years.
After graduating, he got bored of sitting around waiting for the phone to ring with work offers, so he decided to write some of his own ideas. His body of work includes short films Payback, Mimi, Green Bush and Nana. He has also directed and shot loads of documentaries including Rosalie s Journey about the star of the film Jedda.