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Rats in the Ranks

Year of completion: 1996
Content type: Documentary
Format: Feature
Genre: History, Society
Duration: 97 minutes
Production Status: Completed

Politics is a bruising business. The best policies in the world mean nothing unless you've got the numbers. This film takes a behind-locked-doors look at how politicians get the numbers. Every September Sydney's Leichhardt Council elects its mayor. Incumbent Larry Hand was popular with citizenry, but they don't vote for the position of mayor - the 12 councillors do - and after three years of Larry some of them were after his job.

Completion Year: 1996
Genres: History, Society
Format: Feature
Production Status: Completed

Cast and Crew

Director

Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly

Producer

Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly

Writer

Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly

Executive Producer

Awards

1996 — Chicago International Film Festival

1998 — Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Awards

1996 — Film Critics' Circle of Australia

1996 — Australian Film Institute

1997 — Australian Teachers Of Media Inc

1997 — Australian Teachers Of Media Inc

1998 — TV Week Logie Awards

1996 — Melbourne International Film Festival

1996 — The Sydney Film Festival

1996 — The Sydney Film Festival

Screenings

1997 — 'Amascultura' International Documentary Film Festival

1996 — Auckland Film Festival

1998 — Australian Film Week - Ireland

1998 — Australian Film Week - Vienna

1997 — Bradford Film Festival

1996 — Castlemaine Film Festival

1996 — Chicago International Film Festival

1997 — Cologne Conference - Internationales Fernsehfest Koln

1997 — Dublin Film Festival

1997 — Festival International De Cine Independente

1996 — Hawaii International Film Festival

1998 — Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Awards

1998 — International Public Television Screening Conference

1997 — Minneapolis and St Paul International Film Festival

1997 — Ourense Film Festival

1997 — Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema

1998 — Pittwater Film Festival

1997 — Singapore International Film Festival

1996 — Vancouver International Film Festival

1996 — Wellington Film Festival

1997 — Cinema Du Reel

1997 — Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival

1996 — Sheffield DocFest

1996 — Telluride Film Festival

1996 — Melbourne International Film Festival

2006 — The Sydney Film Festival

1996 — The Sydney Film Festival

1996 — The Sydney Film Festival

Sales

Australian Sales

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

International Sales

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Production Company

Film Australia Limited

Arundel Productions Pty Ltd