Filmmaker Warwick Thornton bases this story of a lost Aboriginal boy on his experience in a Christian boarding school.

When it is not being whitewashed and romanticized, the history of colonization is usually told as that of an extremely violent enterprise, filled with murder, forced assimilation, and disease. While ...

Cate Blanchett stars as a nun who encounters an Indigenous Australian boy with special powers in this film about forced assimilation. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

When Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton first wrote the screenplay for “The New Boy” years ago, he knew it was a beautiful story, but he also sensed he didn’t yet fully understand the tale he hoped ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...