Metro Australia — January 2018

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and deliberately decided against providing an overarching
rationale for the zombies’ existence or behaviour. ‘You’re
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tive change is afoot. ‘We don’t really see enough Australians

in genre material,’ says Howling.

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development through Screen Australia and Screen Tasmania.

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