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Checkpoint

When a Lebanese-Australian family is stopped by a military patrol on a deserted road in Australia, Nedal realizes that to protect his wife and daughter he will have to do something that would have been unthinkable just moments earlier.

  • Australia
  • 2006, 11 min
  • Director: Ben Phelps
  • Director of photography: Hugh Miller
  • Editor: Andrew Soo
  • Screenplay: Ben Phelps
  • Music: John Gray
  • Cast: Rodney Afif, Kate Raison, Christian Willis, Alex Dimitriades
  • Contacts: Ben Phelps
  • Producer: Tim Kreibig, Ben Phelps
  • Production: New South Wales Film and Television Office


Ben Phelps

Ben Phelps graduated in film studies from Australian National University in Canberra. He has worked on a variety of experimental video productions and installations. Checkpoint is his first short film. He is currently completing his master’s degree in directing and is working on a feature script