Mark Leonard Winter wins Best Direction in a Debut Feature Film at 2023 Australian Directors' Guild Awards

Australian Directors’ Guild Awards 2023

The award for Best Direction in a Debut Feature Film has gone to Mark Leonard Winter for The Rooster, about a small-time cop who seeks answers from a volatile hermit, played by Hugo Weaving, who was the last person to see his troubled friend alive. The film was shot in the stunning Daylesford forests surrounding Winter’s Glenlyon home.

The Rooster was described as “an astonishing debut film that deeply affected judges with the depth and complexity of its character development and provided a vehicle for what may be Weaving’s most powerful performance to date”.

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Full story from the Australian Directors’ Guild here.

Congratulations from The Yellow Affair to all Nominees and Winners and in particular to Mark on this great and well deserved achievement.