Rats in the Ranks is an Australian documentary film released in 1996. The film detailed the last weeks of the 1994 Leichhardt Council mayoral elections. Synopsis Anthony Albanese, then-assistant general secretary of the NSW Labor Party, proposed to the Labor caucus at the Leichhardt Council that they should solve their factional dispute over who should run for mayor by pulling a name out of a hat. Production The filmmakers, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, were allowed access to the innermost meetings of participants, including serving mayor Larry Hand and his Labor Party opponents.
Awards Rats in the Ranks was screened at more than forty film festivals and won multiple awards, including the Silver Plaque for Social/Political Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1996, the 1996 Critics Choice Award for Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival,Rats in the Ranks. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved 17 January 2012. and the Logie Award for most outstanding documentary series/program in 1998.
Box office Rats in the Ranks grossed $200,000 at the box office in Australia.
Impact Rats in the Ranks is regarded as a classic in its portrayal of local politics in Australia.
Hand's exposure to a wider audience spawned the character Col Dunkley in the successful Australian TV series Grass Roots,
See also Cinema of Australia Australian films of 1996 Logie Awards of 1998
References
External links Rats in the Ranks (1996)
Rats in the Ranks at Oz Movies