Rowan Witt

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

A veteran call girl and a runaway prostitute witness a murder which sends them on an out-of-control roller coaster ride through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale.

Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

There is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the least-selling book of 1655 —The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch — the world will come to an end on a Saturday Next Saturday in fact. The Armies of Good and Evil are massing, the Four Horsemen have been unleashed. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring, and everything appears to be going to Divine Plan. Except that a fastidious Angel and a fast-living Demon, who have enjoyed a rather decadent lifestyle on earth for six millennia, are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. They just have to find a way to indefinitely postpone Armageddon. There’s only one problem: they’ve misplaced the Anti-Christ.

In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they entertain. Somewhere In The Darkness received its world premier at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival in the United States; it was later screened at Australia's Sydney Film Festival the same year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi