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Adaptation of
Priest Island
1940
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1993...
1993
Exile
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Film Details - Illumination Films , 1993
Producers:
Paul Cox (Producer)
Paul Ammitzboll (Producer)
William T. Marshall (Executive Producer)
Santhana K. Naidu (Executive Producer)
Production Companies:
Illumination Films
Finance Organisations:
Australian Film Finance Corporation
Film Victoria
Director of Photography:
Nino Gaetano Martinetti
Editors:
Paul Cox
Production Designers:
Neil Angwin
Composer:
Paul Grabowsky
Cast:
Aden Young (Peter Costello), Beth Champion (Mary), Claudia Karvan (Jean), Norman Kaye (Ghost Priest), David Field (Timothy Dullach), Chris Haywood (Village Priest), Barry Otto (Sheriff Hamilton), Hugo Weaving (Innes), Tony Llewellyn-Jones (Jean's Father), Nicholas Hope (MacKenzie), Gosia Dobrowolska (Midwife), and Tammy Kendall (Alice).
Location:
- Shot entirely on location in Tasmania.
Awards:
- AFI Award (Best Achievement in Cinematography), Australian Film Institute), 1994.
Notes:
The film's release was originally planned to conicide with Primavera Press's reprinting of E. L. Grant Watson's novel Priest Island, on which the film is based. A contractual dispute between the publisher and Josephine Spence, the daughter of E. L. Grant Watson, led to the termination of the contract and the book was not republished. The film was subsequently released overseas in 1994, not in Australia.
