Plus exclusive audience Q&A
with director

VINCENZO NATALI

Live from Los Angeles!

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 - 8PM (note late start)
Event Cinemas Bondi Junction

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"a smart, slickly paced, well-acted science-fiction
cautionary tale-horror movie-psychological drama!"
LOS ANGELES TIMES

"witty, aware of its own craziness, and disarmingly insightful
about the psychology of its characters."
A.O SCOTT

'Sexy, horrific and hysterically off-its-head in the best possible way!'
ABC 702

Superstar genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) specialize in splicing DNA from different animals to create incredible new hybrids. Now they want to use human DNA in a hybrid that could revolutionize science and medicine. But when the pharmaceutical company that funds their research forbids it, Clive and Elsa secretly take their boldest experimentation underground-risking their careers by pushing the boundaries of science to serve their own curiosity and ambition.

The result is Dren, an amazing, strangely beautiful creature of uncommon intelligence and an array of unexpected physical developments.

At first, Dren exceeds their wildest dreams. But as she grows and learns at an accelerated rate, her existence threatens to become their worst nightmare!

More on Vincenzo Natali

VINCENZO NATALI (Director / Screenwriter) gained international recognition in 1997 with the surreal sci-fi thriller Cube. The film earned Genie Award nominations for art direction, sound and score in Natali's home country, Canada, and went on to become a cult favorite, impressing viewers and critics alike. His follow-up, Cypher, starred Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu and David Hewlett in a tale about a man who assumes a new identity in preparation for an espionage career, but instead finds himself engulfed in a shaky, paranoid reality. Natali again received worldwide acclaim for his third feature, the 2003 sci-fi comedy Nothing, which he also co-wrote, and describes as a buddy comedy set in a void. Two years later, he directed Getting Gilliam, a documentary of Terry Gilliam's production of the 2005 feature ``Tideland, which premiered concurrently with the feature. Natali also contributed a segment to the 2006 film-à-sketch Paris, Je t'aime.

Among the feature projects currently in development for Natali are the fantasy adventure Tunnels and the drama High Rise, which he is set to direct from his own screenplay, based on the J. G. Ballard novel.