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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Wish You Were Here
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Film Details - Aquarius ; Blue Tongue Films , 2012

Producers:

Angie Fielder.

Production Companies:

Aquarius Films.
Blue Tongue Films.

Director of Photography:

Jules O'Loughlin.

Editors:

Jason Ballantine.

Production Designers:

Alex Holmes.

Music:

Rosie Chase.

Cast:

Including Felicity Price (Alice Flannery), Joel Edgerton (Dave Flannery), Teresa Palmer (Steph McKinney), Antony Starr (Jeremy King), Nicholas Cassim (Jon Canane), Otto Page (Max Flannery), Isabelle Austin-Boyd (Holly Flannery), and Tina Bursill (Margie McKinney).

Release Dates:

World premiere screening on the opening night of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Premiered in Australia on 26 April 2012.

Location:

  • Filmed and set in Australia and in Cambodia.

Awards:

  • AACTA Award, Best Lead Actor (nominated), 2012.
  • AACTA Award, Best Editing (nominated), 2012.
  • AACTA Award, Best Cinematography (nominated), 2012.
  • AACTA Award, Best Direction (nominated), 2012.
  • AACTA Award, Best Supporting Actor (won), 2012.
  • ADG Award (Australian Directors Guild), Best Direction in a Feature Film (nominated), 2013.
  • Australian Cinematographers Society, NSW & ACT Gold Award (Features - Cinema) (won), 2012.
  • Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Dramatic) (nominated), 2012.
  • FCCA Award (Film Critics Circle of Australia), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (nominated), 2012.
  • FCCA Award (Film Critics Circle of Australia), Best Cinematography (nominated), 2012.
  • FCCA Award (Film Critics Circle of Australia), Best Actress (nominated), 2012.
  • FCCA Award (Film Critics Circle of Australia), Best Director (nominated), 2012.
  • FCCA Award (Film Critics Circle of Australia), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (won), 2012.
  • FCCA Award (Film Critics Circle of Australia), Best Actor (won), 2012.
  • FCCA Award (Film Critics Circle of Australia), Best Editing (won), 2012.
  • ASSG Award (Australian Screen Sound Guild), Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Mixing (nominated), 2012.
  • ASSG Award (Australian Screen Sound Guild), Best Achievement in Sound for Film Sound Design (won), 2012.
  • AACTA Award, Best Lead Actress (nominated), 2012.
  • ASE Award (Australian Screen Editors), Avid Award for Best Editing on a Feature Film (nominated), 2012.
Subjects:
Settings:
  • c
    Cambodia,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Australia,
    c
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