![]() Winner, Best Film of the Year sponsored by the Australian Film Commission and Cinema International Corporation (Matt Carroll) Adult material was preferred by the voters, with one crucial and major exception: The film did acceptable business at the 1977 Australian Film Institute Awards with a couple of key wins, but it received many more nominations than gongs. The SAFC would later claim the film had sold to over 100 countries. It was the first Australian film to attract a major Japanese distributor (and to be seen by the Emperor in a private screening).īy January 1979 producer Matt Carroll was claiming the film had sold in 23 countries and returned $1.2 million to the SAFC. ![]() In the first eight months of its run in Adelaide, the film grossed a box office record of $300,000.Īs well as the strong domestic returns, the film also achieved widespread international interest and sales, and was even given a screening at the White House in the United States "at the request of President Jimmy Carter" (the film was also "requested for viewing" on the Royal yacht Brittania). It was listed in the July 1984 Cinema Papers, using CPI corrected data from Variety, as number 12 in the then all-time top twenty-two Australian films, with a gross film rental of A$1,725,789. Off air time: 1'24"57 (no music overhang)īox office: According to the Film Victoria report on Australian box office, the film achieved a domestic gross of A$2,645,000, equivalent to $13,674,650 in A$ 2009. Running time: 87 mins ( Oxford Australian Film ), 1'25"38 ( NSFA )ĭVD time: 1'25"05 (including end music overhang) Locations: exteriors near Goolwa, a town opposite the head of the Coorong (a saltwater inlet a hundred miles long on the South Australian coast), Port Elliott Primary School and Port Noarlunga, and interiors at the SAFC studio in a converted picture theatre, the old Star, the Parade, Norwood S.A.įilmed: shooting began May 1976, four week six day week schedule.Īustralian distributor: SAFC/Roadshow/VillageĪustralian release: 19th November 1976 Fair Lady Theatre Adelaide, and then to other states mid-1977. ![]() $260,000 ( ASO) $300,000 ( Cinema Papers' production report, and the figure in David Stratton's The Last New Wave) ![]() Production company: South Australian Film Corporationīudget: A$320,000, jointly from the South Australian Film Corporation, the federal government investment body the Australian Film Commission and the Seven television network ( Oxford Australian Film). ![]()
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