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Best Screenplay in a Short Film
Subcategory of Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
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Year: 2011

winner form y separately published work icon The Palace Anthony Maras , ( dir. Anthony Maras ) Australia Cyprus : AntHouse Films Cyanfilms , 2011 Z1832162 2011 single work film/TV

'Cyprus 1974. A Cypriot family flees advancing Turkish forces and takes refuge in an abandoned Ottoman-era palace. When a young Turkish Cypriot conscript comes face to face with the family in hiding, he is forced to confront the brutal reality of war and his role in it.'

Source: The Palace website, www.thepalace1974.com (sighted 13/12/2011)

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