Location: Cinestudio Australia, 1971) Director: Ted Kotcheff. Screenplay by Evan Jones, based on a novel by Kenneth Cook. Cast: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasance, Chips Rafferty. “The best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence.” – Nick Cave. Cinestudio presents the amazing restoration of a lost film, once nominated for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. The original negative was eventually discovered in a Pittsburgh warehouse, marked for destruction. One of the first movies to herald Australia’s New Wave (which included Picnic at Hanging Rock, Breaker Morant, Walkabout and My Brilliant Career) Wake in Fright taps into the energy of a sun-scorched, untamed landscape. Gary Bond stars as a sensitive schoolteacher who ventures into the Outback, finding himself lured into a rural nightmare of debauchery and dread that exists far from any dreams of civilization. “I’m excited WAKE IN FRIGHT has been restored and that it is finally getting the exposure it deserves.” – Martin Scorsese. 114 min. http://drafthousefilms.com/film/wake-in-fright