New League Film?
A new Rugby League film hit the screens recently at the Sydney Film Festival. The Final Winter , which stars Matthew Johns, Matt Nable – who wrote the film – and John Jarratt was a last-minute inclusion in the prestigious film event.
The story centres on a team loosely based on the Newtown Jets, a foundation NSW club that was kicked out of the main competition in 1983. A gritty league documentary proving popular with the audiences. “Whether you’re a rugby league fan or an AFL fan or union or soccer or whatever, what happens in this film is really a metaphor for what happened across all sport,” said Nable.
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