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Film Details - Bush Turkey Films , 2010
Producers:
Michael Gudinski (executive producer).
Brendan Fletcher, David Jowsey, Alan Pigram, and Stephen Pigram (producers).
Production Companies:
Bush Turkey Films.
Director of Photography:
Allan Collins.
Editors:
Claire Fletcher.
Cast:
Primary cast members were Dean Daley-Jones (TJ), Lucas Yeeda (Bullet), and Greg Tait (Texas).
Release Dates:
World premiere screening at the Sydney Festival of Arts, 18 January 2011.
Selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 20-30 January 2011 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah, United States of America.
Location:
- The Kimberley.
Awards:
- APRA Music Award (Australasian Performing Rights Association), Feature Film Score of the Year (nominated), 2011.
- ADG Award, Best Direction in a Feature Film (nominated), 2012.
- AACTA Award, Best Sound (nominated), 2012.
- AACTA Award, Best Young Actor (nominated), 2012.
- AACTA Award, AFI Members' Choice Award (nominated), 2012.
- ASE Award (Australian Screen Editors), Avid Award for Best Editing on a Feature Film (nominated), 2011.
- ASSG Award (Australian Screen Sound Guild), Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Recording (won), 2011.
- Sundance Film Festival , Grand Jury Prize [World Cinema - Dramatic] (nominated), 2011.
Settings:
- Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
