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Film Details - Producers' and Directors' Guild of Australia , 1973
Producers:
John B. Murray (Executive Producer)
Christopher Muir (Executive Producer)
Production Companies:
Producers' and Directors' Guild of Australia
Finance Organisations:
Australian Council for the Arts
Release Dates:
1. Released in Australia on 6 April 1973. Other known release dates are Finland (28 February 1975).
2. Released on DVD format by Umbrella Entertainment in 2005.
Awards:
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1973), Golden Reel Award, Best Fiction - Tim Burstall (winner)
- Australian Film Institute Awards (1973), Hoyts Prize for Best Performance, Best Actress - Judy Morris (winner)
Notes:
1. The Australian Council for the Arts contributed $15,820 for the production. A further contribution was also made later.
2. Six thirty-minute workshop films were initially made, via the Australian Council for the Arts funding. The films were also subsequently adapted for theatrical performances during the workshop process. The writers and stage directors were subjected to peer judgement in front of audiences: guests sometimes numbered close to two hundred in the St Martin's Theatre auditorium. Swinburne Film and TV Department students (who had helped on film production) attended, as well as media studies students from La Trobe University. Following this process, the four eventual films for the Libido anthology were chosen.
