''Aussie Rules the World'' is a 2014 Australian sports

documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

produced by Second Nature Films, directed by Michael Stringer McIntyre and includes interviews with various

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personalities, including, among others, former

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premiership coach and later coach Paul Roos, four-time premiership coach and foundation coach Kevin Sheedy, former AFL CEO

Andrew Demetriou Andrew Demetriou (born 14 April 1961) is an Australian businessman, sports administrator, and former Australian rules football player who was chief executive officer (CEO) of the Australian Football League (AFL) up to June 2014. Demetriou play ...

, current player Bachar Houli and incumbent

Australian of the Year The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Government-owned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the state and territor ...

Adam Goodes Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Goodes holds an elite place in VFL/AFL history as a dual Brownlow Medallist, d ...

. Filmed over a period of four years between 2011 and 2014, it focuses on the sport of

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

and its efforts to spread the game worldwide. The film was released on 22 July 2014.

Background

Narrated by

David Wenham David Wenham (born 21 September 1965) is an Australian actor who has appeared in film, television and theatre. He is known for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, Friar Carl in ' ...

, who starred as high-profile lawyer Julian McMahon in the 2013 television miniseries '' Better Man'' which looked into the real-life execution case of

Van Tuong Nguyen Van Tuong Nguyen (Vietnamese: ''Nguyễn Tường Vân'', ; 17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005), baptised Caleb, was an Australian from Melbourne, Victoria convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore. A Vietnamese Australian, he was also add ...

, the film follows the journey of recently retired

premiership player

Brett Kirk Brett Kirk (born 25 October 1976) is a former Australian rules football player and captain of the Sydney Swans and was the AFL's International Ambassador. Kirk is currently serving as an assistant coach with the Sydney Swans. Kirk played 241 g ...

and his family, who embark on a six-month journey around the world to help spread the game across the globe, amid fears that the sport has been largely ignored in favour of other sports such as

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

and

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.Aussie Rules the World
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official website'', 10 July 2014 The

2011 Australian Football International Cup The 2011 Australian Football International Cup (also known as the AFL International Cup 2011 or IC11) was the fourth edition of the Australian Football International Cup, an international Australian rules football competition run by the Australia ...

is launched and it includes teams from a wide range of countries including Papua New Guinea, the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, India and South Africa, among many others. Ireland win this tournament, defeating Papua New Guinea in the final which was played as a curtain raiser to the round 23, 2011 AFL match between and the .

Cast

References

External links

Official website
* {{IMDb title, 2861560, Aussie Rules the World 2014 films Documentary films about Australian rules football 2014 documentary films 2010s English-language films Australian sports documentary films 2010s Australian films English-language documentary films

Background

Cast

See also

References

External links