Cross Life Trailer A film by Claire McCarthy

Kings Cross is Australia's most famous neighbourhood and one of the nation's most socially liberal and culturally diverse places. CROSS LIFE challenges the misconceptions and attitudes of this rich and diverse arena and grapples with themes of family, identity and freedom.

The film is an intensely dramatic, intensely human matrix of stories about the people of the Cross: some surviving the hard way, others stumbling towards loving relationships. The film began as a community arts training program to assist young unemployed people to gain employment in the film industry. The team produced a short documentary film and then decided to develop their work into a feature-length drama. The film's stories were gleaned from a year of research and extensive interviews with local Kings Cross characters. The project had strong support from local businesses and community, the local council and also from film industry professionals and service providers. Many of the young cast members were participants in the training program and were joined by professional actors including Imogen Annesley, Paul Caesar, Tony Barry and Danielle Rohweder.

For all its vision of the harsh realities of the Cross, the film is still determinedly optimistic and sees hope for all its characters. It also expresses a deep affection for the tacky glamour of the Cross, and comes alive with the sense of community among the people who choose to be there.

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