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Screen cap from promotional trailer
Adaptation of
Jasper Jones
2009
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
2016...
2016
Jasper Jones
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Film Details - Porchlight Films ; Bunya Productions , 2016
Producers:
Vincent Sheehan, David Jowsey, Anita Sheehan, Colin McCumstie, Liz Watts, and Rebecca O'Brien (producers).
Production Companies:
Porchlight Films
Bunya Productions
Finance Organisations:
Screen Australia
Director of Photography:
Mark Wareham.
Production Designers:
Herbert Pinter.
Cast:
Including Levi Miller (Charlie Bucktin), Hugo Weaving (Mad Jack Lionel), Toni Collette (Ruth Bucktin), Matt Nable (Sarge), Dan Wyllie (Wes Bucktin), Angourie Rice (Eliza Wishart), Myles Pollard (Pete Wishart), Aaron L. McGrath (Jasper Jones), Susan Prior (Gwyn Wishart), Wilson Moore (Warwick Trent), Cooper van Grootel (Batsman), and Ferdinand Hoang (An Lu).
Location:
- To be filmed in Western Australia (in and around the South-West’s tall forests) in mid-2015.
Awards:
- AACTA Award, Best Supporting Actor (nominated), 2017.
- AACTA Award, Best Sound (nominated), 2017.
- AACTA Award, Best Production Design (nominated), 2017.
- AACTA Award, Best Costume Design (nominated), 2017.
- Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Actor (nominated), 2017.
- Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Cinematography (nominated), 2017.
- Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Actor (Supporting Role) (winner), 2017.
- Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, Best Original Score (nominated), 2017.
Settings:
- Western Australia,
- 1965
