Buddies
Screening Tue 1 July @ 7pm Royal Open Air Theatre Buddies Arch Nicholson, 1983 Buddies is a 1983 Australian comedy/drama film directed by Arch Nicholson and written by John Dingwall. Dingwall won the Best Original Screenplay AFI Award for the script. The film was not a great success in 1983, as no Australian distributor wanted to release it, but Dingwall…
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Screening Tue 1 July @ 3pm Sarah Riley Theatre The Waltzing Matilda Centre The Back of Beyond John Heyer, 1954 The Back of Beyond is a feature-length award-winning Australian documentary film produced and directed by John Heyer. Battling heat, dust and flood, Tom Kruse delivers mail, stores and supplies along the 517 kilometre Birdsville…
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Screening Tue 1 July @1pm Sarah Riley Theatre The Waltzing Matilda Centre The Last of the Knucklemen Tim Burstill, 1979 In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away (1975), this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group of miners living in a…
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