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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Sweet As
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'The debut feature from writer/director Jub Clerc, inspired by her own experience, Sweet As is a coming of age road movie seen through the eyes of Murra, a 15-year-old Indigenous girl from Port Hedland in Western Australia.'

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Works about this Work

Top Shots on a Road Trip Worth Taking David Stratton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 June 2023; (p. 9)
— Review of Sweet As Jub Clerc , Steve Rodgers , 2022 single work film/TV
Sweet As: Jub Clerc's Film about Misfit Teens on a Pilbara Road Trip Dares to Choose Optimism Over Angst Luke Goodsell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , June 2023;
— Review of Sweet As Jub Clerc , Steve Rodgers , 2022 single work film/TV

'Teen cinema is full of angsty outsiders, social climbers and mouthpieces for current pop culture, but rare are the coming-of-age films that dare to privilege sincerity – an uncool sensibility that can cut through the adolescent din with lovely, unforced levity.' (Introduction)
The Birrarangga Film Festival Has Been Sweet As with Final Film Screening on Tuesday Night Mawunyo Gbogbo , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , March 2023;
— Review of Sweet As Jub Clerc , Steve Rodgers , 2022 single work film/TV
Coming-of-Age Film Is Simply Sweet As 2022 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 2 November no. 788 2022; (p. 34) 'Film director Jub Clerc's much-hyped debut is set to sweep Australian screens but first she's returning to the Kimberley for the sweetest of homecomings'
The Birrarangga Film Festival Has Been Sweet As with Final Film Screening on Tuesday Night Mawunyo Gbogbo , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , March 2023;
— Review of Sweet As Jub Clerc , Steve Rodgers , 2022 single work film/TV
Sweet As: Jub Clerc's Film about Misfit Teens on a Pilbara Road Trip Dares to Choose Optimism Over Angst Luke Goodsell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , June 2023;
— Review of Sweet As Jub Clerc , Steve Rodgers , 2022 single work film/TV

'Teen cinema is full of angsty outsiders, social climbers and mouthpieces for current pop culture, but rare are the coming-of-age films that dare to privilege sincerity – an uncool sensibility that can cut through the adolescent din with lovely, unforced levity.' (Introduction)
Top Shots on a Road Trip Worth Taking David Stratton , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 June 2023; (p. 9)
— Review of Sweet As Jub Clerc , Steve Rodgers , 2022 single work film/TV
Coming-of-Age Film Is Simply Sweet As 2022 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 2 November no. 788 2022; (p. 34) 'Film director Jub Clerc's much-hyped debut is set to sweep Australian screens but first she's returning to the Kimberley for the sweetest of homecomings'
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