BEN LAWRENCE

ITHAKA (2022)
Directed by Ben Lawrence.

The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this portrait of an old man’s fight to save his son. In April, Julian will have been held in the maximum security Belmarsh Prison in the UK, without being charged with any crime, for three years.

GHOSTHUNTER (2018)
Directed by Ben Lawrence.

Jason King, a western Sydney security guard and part-time ghost hunter, has spent two decades searching for his absent father. As a survivor of trauma, he seeks to reconcile his fractured memories and piece together his past. When his search converges with a police investigation, a horrific family secret is exposed - forcing him to confront a brutal past in order to reclaim his future.

HEARTS AND BONES
Starring Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney, Bolude Watson, Ling Cooper Tang, Alan Dukes, Ava Caryofyllis, Michael Kotsohilis, John Puckeridge-Webb and Karim Zreika. Directed by Ben Lawrence.

A war photographer has just returned home to prepare for his latest exhibition when a South Sudanese refugee appears at his door with a request - that he not exhibit any photographs of the massacre in his village, taken 15 years earlier. What emerges is an unlikely friendship between the two men. While sifting through the photographer’s archive, they make a startling discovery – the refugee’s daughter, thought dead, may still be alive. As more revelations arise, both men begin to question their past and in their search, they discover salvation.

ITHAKA (2022)
Directed by Ben Lawrence.

The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this portrait of an old man’s fight to save his son. In April, Julian will have been held in the maximum security Belmarsh Prison in the UK, without being charged with any crime, for three years.

HEARTS AND BONES
Starring Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney, Bolude Watson, Ling Cooper Tang, Alan Dukes, Ava Caryofyllis, Michael Kotsohilis, John Puckeridge-Webb and Karim Zreika. Directed by Ben Lawrence.

A war photographer has just returned home to prepare for his latest exhibition when a South Sudanese refugee appears at his door with a request - that he not exhibit any photographs of the massacre in his village, taken 15 years earlier. What emerges is an unlikely friendship between the two men. While sifting through the photographer’s archive, they make a startling discovery – the refugee’s daughter, thought dead, may still be alive. As more revelations arise, both men begin to question their past and in their search, they discover salvation.