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Why an Australian embraced weeks of quarantine to travel to Italy – Stuff.co.nz
Roderick MacKay was determined to see his first film shown at the Venice Film Festival, but actually reaching Italy was not an easy task.
Roderick MacKay had to get government approval to leave Australia, spent two weeks in preventive coronavirus quarantine in Rome and will be locked up in a hotel back in Australia for another two weeks upon his return.
But the 33-year-old director says its a small price to pay to get his first feature film, The Furnace, to the Venice Film Festival especially after it took six years to make.
The Furnace explores a forgotten aspect of the 19th century west Australian gold rush, when Muslim and S…
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