The Jammed is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 thriller film written

Screenwriter

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 and directed

Film director

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 by Dee McLachlan

Dee McLachlan

Dee McLachlan is a film director, producer and writer from Middle Park, Victoria. McLachlan was born Duncan McLachlan in the early 1950s in South Africa...

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The film is a story about human trafficking and the sex slave trade in Melbourne, and the search for three girls trapped by a trafficking syndicate. Court transcripts and actual events were an influence in the production of the film.

The Jammed was nominated for seven AFI Awards

Australian Film Institute Awards

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, for four FCCA

Film Critics Circle of Australia

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 awards and for six IF Awards

Inside Film Awards

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, winning for best feature film, best script and best music.

The film was favourably reviewed by David Stratton

David Stratton

David James Stratton is an English- Australian film critic and television personality.-Life and career:Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England in 1939, Stratton was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid filmgoer, where he was taken to the local cinemas regularly...

 and Margaret Pomeranz

Margaret Pomeranz

Margaret Pomeranz AM is an Australian film critic and television personality.-Early life:Pomeranz was born in 1944 in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, the then newly opened Macquarie University, and the Playwright's Studio at...

. Its original distribution plan of a DVD

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 release was soon after was altered after filmmaker and distributor John L Simpson of Titan View used his own home mortgage to release the film. It ended up screening on 40 screens in Australia and 10 in NZ

Cast

Actor	Role
Emma Lung Emma Lung - Career :Lung played Carmelita in the short-lived Australian drama series The Cooks. She received her first breakthrough role in the film Peaches starring alongside Jacqueline McKenzie and Hugo Weaving. She starred in the movie 48 Shades alongside Victoria Thaine and Richard Wilson...	Crystal
Veronica Sywak Veronica Sywak Veronica Sywak is both an Australian IF Award and AFI nominated actress. She was born on 11 August 1978 in Sydney, Australia.-Biography:Sywak's professional career began when she was cast in the 2002 Australian film, Blurred. In 2004, she travelled to the US to study Practical Aesthetics at the...	Ashley
Saskia Burmeister Saskia Burmeister Saskia Burmeister is anAustralian actress. She is most known for her roles in Hating Alison Ashley and Sea Patrol....	Vanya
Masa Yamaguchi Masa Yamaguchi Masa Yamaguchi is a professional actor who appeared in the movie The Condemned.- Professional life :Masa Yamaguchi studied acting at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2001. He later appeared in the film The Condemned as Saiga, a Japanese killer, who later teams up with...	Dyce
Sun Park Sun Park Sun Park is a Korean born Australian entertainer, and a member of the children's musical group Hi-5. In 2006, when she was 25, she was originally a temporary replacement for Kathleen de Leon, who went on maternity leave. However in July 2007, Kathleen announced that she would not be returning, in...	Rubi
Andrew S. Gilbert Andrew S. Gilbert Andrew S. Gilbert is an Australian actor best known for his AFI Award-winning role in Kiss or Kill and other supporting work in Look Both Ways and The Dish and his recent role as Gavin Braithwaite on the ABC series, Bed of Roses. He is also known for his collaboration with Director David Caesar on...	Mr. Glassman
Alison Whyte Alison Whyte Alison Whyte is a Tasmanian-born Australian actress best known for her role on the Australian television series Frontline and Satisfaction....	Mrs. Glassman
Anna Kim Anderson	Rose

External links

• Official site
• Sydney Morning Herald article on the film dated 17/8/07.
• The Jammed: Film Review and Bibliography