Miracles at work: Australian movie Gabriel proves that hard work and gumption, rather than a big budget, are what makes a great movie.(Cover story)

Gabriel tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory--a place where darkness rules--and save the souls of the city's inhabitants. The movie's director Shane Abbess is all too familiar with the concept of purgatory, described as a temporary condition of torment or suffering.

Making the movie had, in Abbess' own words, taken him to "hell and beyond". Just like the protagonist in Gabriel, Abbess can also be considered a warrior, but in the filmmaker's approximation, when it comes down to battling the odds and making sacrifices necessary in ...

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