It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the ‘Open Mouth Kissing’. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too ‘inappropriate’ and ‘morally corrupting’ for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.
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Sari Braithwaite Director · Munro Melano Composer Richard Kickbush Cinematographer
First release June 6, 2015 · Produced in Australia
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Australia · June 6, 2015
Premiere · Sydney Film Festival - world premiere
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Australia
November 20, 2015 · TV · ABC2
July 17, 2017 · Digital
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